klotzkette/claude-fuer-deutsches-recht

This repository is an experimental collection of Claude skills tailored to German legal practice. It builds on Anthropic's open 'claude-for-legal' skills and translates them into German, reshaping them around the methodology used by lawyers in Germany, such as Anspruchsgrundlagen, a structured Pruefungsaufbau, and citations in the BGH or Beck style. The author marks it clearly as a technical playground for law firms, in-house teams, and consultants who want to test how AI workflows might fit into their own practice. The skills cover a wide range of areas including labor law, corporate law, insolvency law (with liquidity planning and going-concern prognosis), data protection, procedural law, industrial property, product law, and regulatory law. The README emphasizes that the contents are meant as inspiration for firms to build their own skills. Users are expected to adapt the prompts, role descriptions, and workflows to their own cases, citation styles, preferred commentaries, and internal compliance rules. The repository takes pains to disclaim any legal advice. The author states it makes no statement about whether using these skills in a real engagement complies with German criminal confidentiality rules (Sections 203, 204 StGB), professional conduct rules (Section 43e BRAO, Section 2 BORA), client privilege under Section 53 StPO, GDPR, third-country data transfer rules after Schrems II, or the EU AI Act of 2024. Each user must check these questions themselves and integrate the skills into their own governance, data processing agreements, and AI policies. A specific issue raised is that German lawyers are bound by confidentiality, and sending client data to Anthropic in the United States is only allowed if the recipient has signed a written confidentiality undertaking under Section 203 Abs. 4 StGB. As of May 2026, Anthropic does not sign such declarations. The README points readers toward German intermediary providers such as Langdock, which contractually accept Section 203 obligations, as a workaround until that situation changes.