# Client Update Drafter > Drafts a plain, honest status update for a client on a matter already underway — what has happened, what it means, what happens next, and any bad news or delay stated plainly rather than buried. Use this whenever a user wants a client informed of progress — including phrasings like "draft an update for the client on where this stands", "write a status email covering what happened this month", "le… - **Type:** Skill - **Install:** `agentstack add skill-rohasnagpal-legal-ai-skills-client-update-drafter` - **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior - **Seller:** [rohasnagpal](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/rohasnagpal) - **Installs:** 0 - **Category:** [Communication](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/communication) - **Latest version:** 0.1.0 - **License:** MIT - **Upstream author:** [rohasnagpal](https://github.com/rohasnagpal) - **Source:** https://github.com/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills/tree/main/plugins/advisory/skills/client-update-drafter ## Install ```sh agentstack add skill-rohasnagpal-legal-ai-skills-client-update-drafter ``` Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent. ## About # Client Update Drafter ## What this does Drafts a status update to a client on a matter already in progress: what has happened since the last update, what it means in practical terms, and what happens next. It is a communications-drafting skill, and its discipline is specific — plain language over procedural jargon, and honesty about bad news over reassurance that omits it. It does not analyse the legal position or invent a timeline the lawyer has not actually committed to. ## Before you start **What has actually happened since the last update.** The developments to report — supplied by the lawyer. This is the blocking input; there is no update to draft without it. **Whether there is anything adverse to report.** A missed deadline, an unfavourable development, a delay, a cost overrun. Ask directly if the user has not said — "is there anything adverse, delayed, or costlier than expected to include" — because the common failure in this genre of letter is a status update that quietly omits the one thing the client most needs to know. Do not assume the absence of bad news; confirm it. Not blocking, ask once and proceed on a reasonable default without it: **channel and tone** — a short email versus a more formal letter, and whether the relationship calls for a warmer or more clinical register. ## Method **1. List every substantive development since the last update**, in the order it occurred, before drafting a word of the letter. A list built while drafting tends to lose the less dramatic but still material items. **2. Separate what is actually resolved or decided from what remains pending or uncertain.** Do not present a provisional or interim development as settled. **3. State any bad news near the top, not in the fourth paragraph.** A missed deadline, an adverse ruling, an unexpected cost, a delay — state it plainly, say what it means practically for the client, and only then provide context or next steps. Do not lead with reassuring framing that buries the substance. **4. State next steps and, where the lawyer has given a timeline, the expected timing.** Where timing is genuinely uncertain, say so directly — "timing is not yet clear because X" — rather than supplying a date to make the update feel more complete than the facts support. **5. Separate what requires a decision or instruction from the client from what is purely informational.** Put anything the client needs to act on in its own clearly marked place; do not let it dissolve into general narrative where it can be missed. **6. Translate procedural steps into what they mean, not just what occurred.** "We filed our submissions" tells the client nothing on its own; say what filing them means for the timeline or the client's position. **7. State any fee or cost development precisely as given**, not rounded or softened to make it easier to deliver. ## Output **1. Headline.** One line stating overall status — on track, delayed, at a decision point, or a stage concluded. **2. What's happened.** Plain narrative or bullets covering every development identified in Method step 1. **3. Anything adverse.** Its own clearly marked section if bad news, delay, or cost change exists — never folded into the general narrative where it can be missed. Omit this section only if the user has confirmed there is nothing to report. **4. What happens next**, and expected timing, or an honest statement that timing is not yet clear and why. **5. What we need from you.** Decisions or instructions required, if any. **6. Sign-off.** ## Do not Do not bury or soften bad news to make the update read more comfortably. State it plainly, near the top. Do not invent a completion date, outcome, or estimate the lawyer has not actually given. State uncertainty honestly instead. Do not use a procedural term without saying what it means for the client's timeline or position. Do not omit a fee or cost development that was supplied, or soften a figure to make it land more gently. Do not present a provisional or interim development as though it were final and settled. ## Source & license This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code. - **Author:** [rohasnagpal](https://github.com/rohasnagpal) - **Source:** [rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills](https://github.com/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills) - **License:** MIT Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above. ## Pricing - **Free** — Free ## Security capabilities Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access: - **Network access:** no - **Filesystem access:** no - **Shell / process execution:** no - **Environment & secrets:** no - **Dynamic code execution:** no *"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.* ## Versions - **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source. ## Links - Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-rohasnagpal-legal-ai-skills-client-update-drafter - Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/rohasnagpal - Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse --- Listed on AgentStack — the marketplace for AI agent skills and MCP servers. 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