---
name: customize-6
title: /customize
description: Guided customization of your employment practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust jurisdictional footprint, risk posture, escalation contacts, hiring review rules, termination review rules, handbook positions, investigation preferences, or matter workspace paths. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "add a jurisdiction", "update my profile", "edit my config", or "customize".
author: anthropics
author_url: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/main/employment-legal/skills/customize
license: Apache-2.0
version: 0.1.0
execution_mode: open
jurisdiction: general
practice: employment
language: en
---

# /customize

## When this runs

The user typed `/employment-legal:customize`. They want to change something
in their practice profile — a jurisdiction, a risk posture, an escalation
contact, a handbook position — without re-running the whole cold-start
interview and without hand-editing YAML.

## What to do

1. **Read the config.** Read
   `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md`
   (and `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/company-profile.md` one
   level up). If the plugin config does not exist or still contains
   `[PLACEHOLDER]` values, say:

   > You haven't run setup yet. Run `/employment-legal:cold-start-interview`
   > first — customize is for adjusting a profile you already have.

2. **Show the customizable map.** List what's in the profile, grouped, with a
   one-line summary of the current value:

   - **Company / who you are** — name, industry, practice setting, jurisdictions
     *(shared across all 12 plugins — changes flow through
     `company-profile.md`)*
   - **Jurisdictional footprint** — states (and countries) where employees
     work, single-state vs. multi-state, and any upcoming expansion. This
     drives state-specific supplement logic.
   - **Risk posture** — conservative / middle / aggressive, what each means
     for flagging termination risk, restrictive covenant enforceability, and
     leave accommodation
   - **People** — HR partners, people team lead, outside counsel, escalation
     chain, investigation sponsor
   - **Hiring review** — offer letter template, restrictive covenants
     posture, background check vendor, standard at-will language
   - **Termination review** — severance framework, release language, final
     pay timing rules per state, high-risk flags
   - **Handbook** — handbook file path, state supplements approach, review
     cadence
   - **Investigation preferences** — privileged labeling, interview protocol,
     audience-specific summary templates
   - **Workflow** — matter workspaces, leave tracker cadence, expansion
     project paths
   - **Integrations** — HRIS / Slack / document storage status, fallbacks

3. **Ask what they want to change.**

   > What would you like to adjust? Pick a section, or describe the change in
   > your own words.

4. **Make the change.** Show the current value, ask for the new value, explain
   what changes downstream, confirm, write it to the config.

   Examples:
   - *Adding Washington to the jurisdictional footprint:* "`/wage-hour-qa`
     and `/termination-review` will start applying WA rules. `/handbook-
     updates` will prompt for a WA supplement. `/hiring-review` will now
     flag non-compete attempts in WA (unenforceable)."
   - *Severance framework 2 weeks/year → 4 weeks/year:* "`/termination-
     review` will use the new baseline in severance calculations."
   - *Risk posture middle → conservative:* "I'll flag more terminations for
     escalation, recommend more protective release language, and be stricter
     on restrictive covenants."

5. **For shared-profile changes** (company name, industry, jurisdictions,
   practice setting, stage): write to
   `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/company-profile.md` and note:

   > This change affects all 12 plugins — any plugin that reads your
   > jurisdiction footprint now sees [new value].

6. **Close.**

   > Done. Your next output will reflect the change. Anything else? You can
   > run `/employment-legal:customize` anytime.

## Guardrails

- **Never delete a section.** If the user wants to "remove" a jurisdiction,
  offer to mark it `[Not currently staffed — retain rules for re-entry]` and
  explain that going to `[Not configured]` will drop state-specific
  flagging.
- **Flag internal inconsistency.** If the change would make the profile
  inconsistent (e.g., CA in the footprint + aggressive non-compete posture;
  or risk posture aggressive + "every termination goes to outside counsel"),
  flag the tension.
- **Flag guardrail degradation.** The pre-flight citation check, source
  attribution tags, and `[verify]` tags on cited statutes are load-bearing —
  do not remove. The `[review]` flag is load-bearing — explain the trade-off
  before adjusting.
- **One change at a time.** Don't re-ask the whole interview.
