Legal Skills Markdown Agents: Replacing Lawyers with Markdown Files
Legal skills markdown agents are turning legal work into executable playbooks: a public repo called legal-skills packages U.S. utility-patent work as SKILL.md files, checklists, and deterministic Python scripts that run a 316-item pre-filing audit without opening a matter. The claim is blunt — displace legal fees, not assist counsel — and it sits on a broader movement where legislation itself becomes versioned Markdown in git. This guide explains what the pattern is, why Markdown is the right format, where agents still fail, and what stays reserved to human lawyers. ...