Claude Regulatory-Legal Plugin
Run Anthropic's regulatory-legal plugin: 9 skills + reg-change-monitor agent. Watch regulatory feeds, learn your materiality threshold, diff new regs against policy library, track gaps + NPRM comments. 8 lessons + REG credential.
Anthropic shipped a regulatory counsel plugin on May 12, 2026 — and it learns what ‘material’ actually means at your firm
The regulatory-legal plugin watches regulatory feeds, diffs new regulations against your indexed policy library, and surfaces gaps. The key feature: it learns your materiality threshold during cold-start, so it doesn’t alert on every commissioner’s speech or every irrelevant rule change. Built around an empirical understanding of what counts as worth noting versus noise.
The plugin reads your indexed policies (Drive-connected document library) and your past regulatory tracking decisions. From these, it captures: which regulators you watch, what categories of change matter, your materiality threshold (high signal: actionable change; low signal: speech/commentary), and your gap-closure conventions. Subsequent skills apply this calibration automatically — reg-change-monitor surfaces only material changes; policy-diff shows specific overlaps between new regs and current policies; gap tracker shows what’s been flagged and ownership; comments tracker handles NPRM comment periods with deadlines.
This course walks the 9 skills: cold-start-interview, reg-feed-watcher, policy-diff, gaps, comments, policy-redraft, matter-workspace, gap-surfacer, customize — plus the reg-change-monitor scheduled agent (default weekly, configurable to daily for active regulatory environments). You’ll learn the Federal Register API + free regulator feeds approach (no expensive subscriptions required), materiality-based filtering, NPRM comment period tracking with deadlines, and policy redraft as a first-draft tool (not a direct edit to policy source documents).
You’ll come out with a CLAUDE.md profile at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/regulatory-legal/CLAUDE.md, a sample policy-diff output demonstrating gap identification + recommendation, and a credential (REG-XXXXXX) documenting the work. The plugin costs nothing beyond your Claude Pro subscription. The operating discipline this course teaches is the difference between AI that surfaces every regulatory change and AI that delivers signal-not-noise.
What You'll Learn
- Install and cold-start the regulatory-legal plugin: watchlist, policy library indexing, materiality threshold
- Run `reg-feed-watcher` for manual feed checks; configure `reg-change-monitor` for scheduled regulatory monitoring
- Apply `policy-diff` to compare new regulations against your indexed policy library
- Operate the gap tracker (`gaps`) and NPRM comment tracker (`comments`) with deadlines and ownership
- Produce policy redraft drafts via `policy-redraft` that close identified gaps; surface for internal review
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What You'll Build
Course Syllabus
Prerequisites
- Active compliance counsel, regulatory counsel, or privacy counsel handling regulatory tracking
- Some policy library to diff against (or willingness to index existing policies)
- Claude Cowork or Claude Code installed; ability to install plugins from the Anthropic marketplace
Who Is This For?
- Regulatory counsel (in-house + outside)
- Compliance counsel handling regulatory tracking
- Privacy counsel doing reg gap analysis
- Product counsel receiving filtered alerts
- Outside counsel handling regulatory matter for clients (matter-workspace)
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from privacy-legal's reg-gap-analysis?
Privacy-legal's reg-gap-analysis is one-shot — deep dive on a specific regulation you trigger. Regulatory-legal continuously watches feeds, filters by materiality, diffs against indexed policies, and tracks gaps with deadlines. Pair them: this watches; that deep-dives. Many firms run both.
What is 'materiality threshold' and why does it matter so much?
Materiality is what counts as worth alerting on. Without it, the plugin alerts on every commissioner's speech, every speech excerpt, every comment to a comment period — drowning your inbox. The threshold says: only alert me on changes that materially affect my policies / industry / firm. Built from cold-start interview; tuned over time.
Does this require expensive regulatory feed subscriptions?
No. Federal Register API is free. Many regulators have free RSS feeds. CourtListener (free) covers court opinions. Premium feeds (Bloomberg Law, Westlaw Compliance Manager) provide curated and synthesized content; the plugin can use them too if you have access. Free tier is operationally adequate for most practices.
How does the plugin handle international regulations?
Cold-start asks which regulators you watch — including foreign (EU, UK ICO, EDPB, etc.). The plugin adapts feeds and materiality threshold per regulator. For complex multi-jurisdiction work, configure separate watchlists per region; policy library can include region-tagged sections.
How does this work with other practice-area plugins?
Regulatory-legal pairs with: Privacy-Legal (deep-dive on triggered gaps), Product-Legal (filtered alerts for product counsel), Employment-Legal (EEOC + DOL feeds), and Commercial-Legal (regulatory provisions in contracts). Many firms run the full practice-area plugin stack.
