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Summary

Many skills/legal/ SKILL.md files shipped with trailing editorial notes from a prior rewrite process — sections like **Key changes from the original:** with bullets describing token reductions, structural changes, etc. A handful also contained leaked LLM permission-prompt chatter ("Could you grant write permission so I can save the file?"). None of this belongs in published skill content.

This PR truncates the trailing pollution block from 305 SKILL.md files. Only the trailing editorial/chatter section is removed — no legitimate skill content is touched.

The reference for what "clean" looks like is skills/legal/real-estate-transaction-summary/SKILL.md, which the user pointed to as the desired end state.

Detection

Pollution shapes encountered:

  1. --- separator → **Key changes from the original:** heading + bullets (most common)
  2. --- separator → editorial heading without bold markers (e.g. Key changes from the original:)
  3. --- separator → **Changes from original:** (no "Key")
  4. --- separator → leaked LLM chatter ("It looks like I don't have write permission…")
  5. Editorial line + bullets, **with no preceding --- separator` (4 files)

Verification

After cleanup, the following greps return no hits across skills/legal/:

  • Key changes from (the )?original
  • ^(\*\*)?(Key changes|Key improvements|Changes from)
  • ~[0-9]+ lines → ~?[0-9]+ lines / cutting token cost
  • write permission|grant write|approve the file write|save the rewritten|copy the (content|output) above

The cleanup script is idempotent (a second run modifies nothing).

Test plan

  • Spot-check a handful of files to confirm no real content was removed
  • Confirm the verification greps stay empty after merge

Files changed (305)

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  • skills/legal/510k-premarket-notification/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/abstract-of-judgment/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/adoption-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/adversary-proceeding-complaint/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/adverse-event-reporting-policy/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/advisory-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/amended-restated-certificate-of-incorporation/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/annual-meeting-notice/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/api-constraints-exhibit/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/api-license-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/appeal-document-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/appeal-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/appellate-mandate/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/articles-of-dissolution/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/asset-enforcement-report/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/asset-liability-summaries/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/asset-purchase-loi/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/assignment-and-assumption-of-leases/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/assignment-assumption/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/attorney-representation-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/audit-compensation-charter/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/auth-packet-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/awa-compliance-audit/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/bill-of-costs-on-appeal/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/bill-of-sale-personal-property/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/bill-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/board-meeting-minutes/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/board-resolution-dissolution/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/breach-notification/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/breach-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/build-out-allowance-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/ca-discovery-response/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/ca-privilege-log/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/case-chronology/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/case-summary-report/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/cash-collateral-motion/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/cert-petition/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/certificate-of-service/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/chapter-11-reorg-plan/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/charitable-remainder-trust/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/chart-audit-protocol/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/child-support-worksheet/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/citation-bluebook/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/claim-construction-order/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/class-claim-form/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/class-notice-plan/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/class-settlement-preliminary-approval/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/client-advisory-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/closing-disclosure-timing-reference/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/closing-disclosure-tolerance/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/code-of-conduct-and-ethics/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/collateral-assignment-of-contracts/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/collateral-valuation/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/commencement-date-memo/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/commencement-date-memorandum/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/commercial-lease-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/commercial-re-loi/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/commission-plan-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/commitment-letter-for-financing/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/communication-summarization/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/complaint-for-copyright-infringement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/complaint-for-negligence/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/compliance-summaries/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/conference-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/confidentiality-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/confidentiality-invention-assignment/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/consent-decree-epa/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/consent-letter/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/consent-to-sublease/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/construction-defect-complaint/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/consumer-breach-notice-letter/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/consumer-loan-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/contract-dispute-analysis/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/contract-dispute-report/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/cookie-consent-policy/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/copyright-license-agreement-media/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/corrective-action-plan/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/court-document-formatting/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/court-formatting/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/court-order-summaries/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/coverage-opinion/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/criminal-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/cross-exam-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/cross-examination-summaries/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/cultural-heritage-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/custody-evaluation-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/cyber-law-compliance-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/data-breach-consumer-notice/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/dd-form-254/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/deed-of-gift/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/deed-of-trust/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/demand-package-compilation/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/depo-outline-hr-manager/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/deposition-document-assembly/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/deposition-notice-subpoena/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/deposition-notice/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/deposition-outline-hr-manager/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/deposition-subpoena-drafter/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/deposition-summarization/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/deposition-summary-exhibit-index/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/deposition-summary-index/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/development-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/directed-share-program/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/discovery-and-bill-of-particulars/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/discovery-document-summaries/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/discovery-response-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/discovery-summarization/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/dmca-takedown-notice/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/dsar-form/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/durable-poa-finances/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/earn-out-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/eeoc-charge-of-discrimination/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/eir-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/elder-law-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/employee-arbitration-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/employee-complaint-summaries/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/employee-handbook/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/employee-nda/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/environmental-indemnity/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/equity-financing-term-sheet/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/equity-term-sheet/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/escrow-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/esi-protocol/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/estate-admin-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/eviction-complaint/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/excluded-assets-liabilities/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/exclusive-patent-license/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/executive-employment-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/expert-report-on-damages/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/expert-testimony-summarization/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/expert-witness-deposition/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/expert-witness-impeachment/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/expert-witness-omissions/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/expert-witness-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/extend-time-brief/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/family-law-summons/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/fda-device-registration/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/field-of-use-clause/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/final-settlement-approval/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/financial-affidavit/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/finra-4512-customer-account/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/finra-4512-customer-info/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/fiscal-sponsorship-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/flsa-conditional-certification/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/forensic-accounting-report/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/form-1023-application/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/form-1023/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/form-adv/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/form-d-notice/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/franchise-agreement-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/franchise-disclosure-document/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/franchise-rofr/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/fund-subscription-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/gdpr-data-processing-addendum/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/glba-privacy-notice/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/guaranty-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/guardianship-nomination/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/habeas-corpus-petition/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/haccp-plan/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/healthcare-services-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/hipaa-baa/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/hipaa-privacy-notice/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/historic-preservation-law-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/hsr-filing/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/import-compliance-manual/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/incident-response-playbook/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/incident-to-billing-policy/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/insider-trading-policy/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/insurance-claim-summaries/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/insurance-correspondence-summarization/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/interest-calculation-reference/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/interrogatory-response-summaries/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/intl-distribution-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/inverse-condemnation-complaint/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/investigation-report-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/ir-tabletop-exercise/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/itar-tcp/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/itar-technology-control-plan/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/jnov-motion/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/joint-operating-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/judgment-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/jury-instructions/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/labeling-compliance-review/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/last-will/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/lease-termination-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/legal-article-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/legal-memo/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/legal-research-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/letter-of-intent/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/license-assignment/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/loan-and-security-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/management-rights-letter/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/maritime-case-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/means-test-calculation/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/mediation-arbitration-statement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/mediation-brief/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/medical-director-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/medical-record-chronology/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/mortgage-deed-of-trust/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/motion-in-limine/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/motion-to-compel/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/motion-to-convert/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/motion-to-dismiss-indictment/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/mta-biological/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/nda-government-data/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/newsletter-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/non-compete-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/non-compete-seller/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/nonprofit-board-minutes/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/notice-of-appearance/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/notice-of-assets-claims/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/notice-of-prior-art/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/npdes-permit-application/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/nydfs-infosec-program/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/oil-gas-lease/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/opinion-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/opposition-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/order-modification/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/org-meeting-minutes/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/parking-license-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/partition-complaint/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/party-deposition/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/patent-infringement-complaint/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/patent-infringement-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/payoff-letter-request/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/pet-custody-best-interest/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/physician-employment-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/pipeline-easement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/plea-agreement-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/police-report-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/policy-manual/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/policy-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/post-settlement-correspondence/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/preliminary-injunction/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/prenuptial-postnuptial-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/pretrial-statement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/product-liability-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/project-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/promissory-note-residential/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/promo-materials-review-policy/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/proprietary-information-inventions-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/prospectus-draft/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/prospectus/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/protective-order/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/protest-notice/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/qdro-draft/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/real-estate-transaction-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/rec-purchase-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/reg-bi-policy/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/regulatory-submission-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/release-of-claims/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/repair-request-addendum/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/request-for-admissions/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/retaliation-complaint/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/revolving-credit-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/right-to-sue-letter/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/rofr-co-sale/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/royalty-report/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/sec-opinion-letter/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/securities-regulation-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/security-deposit-letter-of-credit/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/seller-consulting-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/sentencing-guidelines/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/separation-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/settlement-proposals/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/settlement-summarization/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/shelf-registration-s3/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/shippers-letter-of-instruction/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/side-letter/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/snda-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/solar-site-lease/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/sports-licensing-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/stark-law-aks-compliance/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/state-charity-annual-report/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/state-qualification/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/statement-of-information/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/stay-pending-appeal/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/stock-purchase-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/subcontracting-plan/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/sublicense-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/t4c-settlement-proposal/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/tax-return-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/technology-transfer-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/technology-tutorial/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/tenant-estoppel-certificate/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/tenant-improvement-work-letter/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/tender-of-defense/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/term-loan-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/tila-consumer-loan-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/tone-diplomatic/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/track-deposits/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/trademark-clearance/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/traffic-enforcement-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/transactional/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/ucc-financing-statement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/underwriting-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/viability-conflict-check-report/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/volunteer-waiver-release/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/whistleblower-policy/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/wisp/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/witness-prep-session/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/witness-summary/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/work-for-hire-agreement/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/writ-of-execution/SKILL.md
  • skills/legal/wrongful-termination-complaint/SKILL.md

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

Many skill files shipped with trailing editorial notes from a prior rewrite
process — sections like "Key changes from the original:" with bullets about
token reductions, structural changes, etc. A handful also contained leaked
LLM permission-prompt chatter ("Could you grant write permission..."). None
of this belongs in published skill content.

Truncated the trailing pollution block from 305 SKILL.md files in
skills/legal/. No legitimate skill content was touched — only the trailing
editorial/chatter section after the last real content section. Verified
with grep that all known pollution patterns are now gone.
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Skills checked: 305

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