Legora launches Skills, reusable instructions to teach its agent how each team works

Legora has launched Skills, a feature available to all its customers since October 5, 2026 that lets legal teams codify their way of working (standards, processes and preferences) so the platform's agent executes it. The idea starts from a sentence every lawyer recognizes when handing back an AI draft: it's not wrong, but it's not how we do it here.

A Skill is a set of natural-language instructions saved as a Markdown file. It captures three things: the standards the team holds its work to, the processes it follows and the preferences that make that work recognizable. It can contain, for example, how to review a supply contract against the house playbook, with acceptable fallback positions on liability and indemnities; how to assemble a trial bundle; or how a partner structures an advice note. Beyond instructions, a Skill can carry reference materials, templates and past examples, including what the result should not look like.

Neither prompt nor workflow

Legora places it between two pieces that already existed. A prompt is the one-off instruction for the task at hand. A workflow is a fixed sequence that runs the same way every time. A Skill is know-how the agent keeps: it is configured once and applied when the work demands it, adapting to the task. Unlike a prompt, it can load files; unlike a workflow, it does not need anyone to start it, because the agent recognizes and invokes it on its own, although it can also be chosen by hand by typing "/" in the chat.

If no Skill exists for a task, the agent can build one from documents the team has already produced or by asking a few questions, and then asks whether you want to install it. Skills combine with each other: one about how the team writes and another about a review process can apply at the same time.

From personal to firm-wide

A Skill can be born in a lawyer capturing their tone or their way of structuring a clause, be shared with a colleague and end up published for the whole department. It can also be born from the top: knowledge and innovation teams can create Skills with organizational standards, house style, templates or negotiating positions, available to everyone from day one.

The launch Skills library has more than 250 units built by Legora's legal engineers, organized by practice area and jurisdiction, with more than 20 areas covered according to Legal IT Insider, including litigation, arbitration and privacy. The examples cited include chronologies built from the evidence, agreement analysis, trial bundle audits and triage of data subject access requests.

On governance, three rules: nobody adds a Skill to your agent without you choosing it; administrators control who can share across the whole organization and can pull a Skill out of circulation; and every Skill is readable by whoever receives it. Matter permissions still apply: the Skill holds the know-how, but the matter defines what the agent can access.

The race to structure agents

Skills arrives in the same weeks in which Harvey presented Legal Work Orchestration and Legatics connected live deal status with Harvey. All three makers are solving the same gap: the agent already executes tasks; what is missing is the process, the context and the standard around the task. In litigation, the same idea arrives through consolidation, with deals such as Opus 2's acquisition of Bundledocs.

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Sources and limits

The features, the launch date and the figure of more than 250 skills appear in Legora's official announcement of October 5, 2026; the detail of more than 20 practice areas comes from Legal IT Insider. The user and engineer quotes reproduced come from the maker's own announcement.