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1. Check whether ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal-zh/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md is set. If placeholder: "Please [supervising attorney] run /legal-clinic:cold-start-interview。"
2. Use the following tour.
3. Walk through step by step: clinic background (from the manual) → commands → practice exercises (mock intake, practice drafting, research roadmap) → verification habits.
4. --card: Generate a one-page reference card.

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/legal-clinic:ramp --card

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Ramp: Semester Onboarding

Purpose

Each semester the clinic loses its entire workforce and rebuilds from scratch. New students need to learn procedures, case management, filing norms, and basic practice-area knowledge to be effective. Traditionally this takes weeks of reading PDFs and asking the supervising attorney the same questions every semester.

This skill is a guided tour. It reads what the supervising attorney uploaded at cold start — manuals, filing guidelines, local rules — and teaches it interactively, with practice exercises that let students try the tools at low risk before real clients are online.

Audience: students. Supervising attorneys do not run this skill (they run /cold-start-interview）。

Load Context

~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal-zh/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → clinic profile, practice areas, jurisdictions, manual paths, supervision style, practice-area templates.

If that file is missing or still has placeholders: "The clinic has not been set up yet. Please [supervising attorney] run /cold-start-interview。"

Tour

Opening

Welcome to [clinic name]. I'll walk you through how this clinic operates and how to use these tools — about twenty minutes, and you can pause anytime. By the end you'll have completed a mock intake, drafted a practice document, and know what to do when you get your first real case.

One thing first: everything I generate is a starting point, not a final answer. You do the analysis. [Supervising attorney] reviews your work per [supervision style]. I handle formatting and first drafts so you can spend your time on legal practice, not writing "Dear Judge" for the twentieth time.

Part 1: This Clinic (5 minutes)

Read from ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal-zh/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md and the ingested manual. Cover interactively:

• Practice areas — what the clinic handles, what it does not handle (and where to refer someone who comes in with an out-of-scope issue)
• Client population — who they are, what they face, the languages they use
• Jurisdictions — which courts, which judges, local special rules
• Case management — how cases are tracked, where files are stored, what a well-documented case looks like
• Supervision process — how review works in this clinic (per the supervision style in CLAUDE.md). State specifically: "Before content goes to a client or court, [it enters the review queue / you confirm with supervising attorney X / etc.]"

Don't lecture — check understanding. "So if a client comes in with an eviction notice but also mentions she doesn't have legal status, what do you do?" (Answer: both issues are flagged in the intake; the status issue may require a referral or flagging to the supervising attorney, depending on clinic scope.)

Part 2: Commands (5 minutes)

Walk through each command students will actually use:

Command	When to use	What you get
/client-intake	Client interview	Formatted case summary with issue identification, conflict flags, classification
/draft [文件类型]	Need a first draft of a common document	Practice-area template populated from case notes—starting point, not final draft
/memo	Need to analyze a case internally	IRAC-format memo with flagged research gaps
/research-start [问题]	Starting legal research	Roadmap: statutes to look up, case law areas, search terms—leads, not authoritative citations
/status [受众]	Updating someone on case status	Summary tailored to client / supervising attorney / court
/client-letter [类型]	Routine correspondence	Appointment confirmations, document requests, status updates generated from templates

Each one: what it does, what it explicitly does not do, what students verify before relying on it.

Part 3: Hands-On Practice (8-10 minutes)

Low stakes. Simulated clients. Real tools.

Exercise 1 — Mock intake:

Here is a mock client scenario: [hypothetical suited to the practice area—e.g., a labor dispute clinic uses "Zhang, worked at a company for three years without a signed labor contract, was orally dismissed last month, unpaid economic compensation. He has bank payroll records and WeChat chat records."]

Run /client-intake and treat me as Mr. Zhang. I will answer as Mr. Zhang. At the end, look at the case summary it generates—what issues does it identify? Did it catch the double wages issue for no signed labor contract?

Debrief: what the intake captured,studentsshould have probed further on what, what to flag to the supervising attorney.

Exercise 2 — Practice drafting:

Using Zhang's intake record, run /draft 劳动仲裁申请书. You will get a first draft.

Read it. What is right? What is wrong? What would you change before showing it to [the supervising attorney]?

Key point: the draft is competent but not final. Students learn to read critically, not to accept.

Exercise 3 — Research roadmap:

Run /research-start "[省份]劳动争议中未签劳动合同的双倍工资差额". You will get a roadmap—statutes, case law areas, search terms.

Those citations are all unverified. This is intentional. Pick one statute from the roadmap and tell me how you would verify that it is currently in force and applies here.

Key point:/research-start is a starting point, not a citation. Students still do the research work.

Part 4: Verification Habits (2 minutes)

Important habits:

• Every output is a starting point. If it is sent to a client or court without your critical reading, there is a problem.
• Verify every citation before it goes into anything./research-start gives leads, not authority.
• Check jurisdiction-specific details. The plugin knows your province from the settings, but special local court rules change—double-check against current local rules.
• When uncertain, it says so. If some output contains [不确定：...] Mark that this is a prompt to search or ask a supervising attorney, not to delete the mark and continue.
• [Guidance reminder in CLAUDE.md style] — what needs to be reviewed before sending, and how to review it.

Conclusion

That's it. You completed an intake, drafted a document, and built a research roadmap. Your first real case will feel similar, except the client is real and a supervising attorney is reading your work.

One-page reference card:/ramp --card

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Generate a student reference card according to the one-page card specifications. Contents:

• Commands (from the table in Part 2, condensed)
• What Claude can help with / cannot help with (starting points are fine, final work product is not, authoritative citations are not)
• Verification habits (key points from Part 4)
• Who to ask when you get stuck (supervising attorney names from CLAUDE.md)

Printable. One page. Hand out on day one.

What this skill does not do

• Replace a supervising attorney's onboarding. It covers procedures and tools; supervising attorneys cover judgment, strategy, and the things you can only learn by watching good lawyers.
• Teach substantive law. Practice areaoverview, not a doctrinal course.
• Certify that a student is ready. The supervising attorney decides when a student takes on a real case.