Probanda is a set of six Claude Cowork plugins for legal practice in British Columbia, in one marketplace named Probanda_Legal_experimental.
| Plugin | What it does | Requires |
|---|---|---|
lawyer |
The base: firm records, time, billing, case data and deadlines, and skills for any lawyer: dyu restates a request before acting, TLDR summarizes a session |
nothing |
researcher |
What the law is: legal research, citation and verification | lawyer |
litigator |
Court work on a matter: applying the law to the facts, drafting, court forms and filing packages | lawyer, researcher |
solicitor |
Reserved. It ships no skills yet | lawyer |
file-manager |
Optional. Every Probanda tool that renames, moves or deletes your own files: matter housekeeping, routing accounting files, applying approved renames | lawyer |
timekeeper |
Optional. Automated time tracking: gathers the evidence of a day's work, sorts it to client matters, corrects TimeCamp and drafts time entries | lawyer |
In Claude, add this repository as a plugin marketplace, then install the plugins from it in this order:
/plugin marketplace add Mharbulous/probanda-dev
/plugin install lawyer@Probanda_Legal_experimental
/plugin install researcher@Probanda_Legal_experimental
/plugin install litigator@Probanda_Legal_experimental
/plugin install file-manager@Probanda_Legal_experimental
/plugin install timekeeper@Probanda_Legal_experimental
Keep to that order. Claude Code installs a required plugin with the plugin that requires it, but claude.ai and Cowork do not: there, a plugin whose required plugin is missing loads with tools and agents absent.
file-manager is optional: leave it out to keep Probanda's file tools away from your files. Without it, a step that would move or trash a file stops and says so. The host's own shell (device_bash in Cowork, Bash/PowerShell elsewhere) can still create and rename files in a connected folder. That access is outside any plugin's control. Disabling file-manager removes Probanda's file tools, not the host's.
timekeeper is optional too: leave it out if you do not track time with it. Billing keeps working without it, and a billing step that needs it says so and stops.
This repository is private during development. The install commands above work only for accounts that have been given access to it. The public repository, Probanda-app/Legal, still offers the single plugin probanda until the public plugins are split the same way.
The five plugins replace the single plugin probanda, which itself combined two CoClerk plugins: litigation, and the read side of legal-commons. If you have any of those three installed, uninstall it before installing these, or every skill will appear twice. The same goes for legal, whose contents moved into lawyer on 2026-10-17. Your data is untouched: it lives outside the plugins.