Introducing Configurable Skills

Every firm has standards and expertise. With the advancement of AI, the challenge is no longer creating them but applying them consistently across law firms, matters, and practice groups.

Today, we’re launching Configurable Skills, a way for firms to turn their processes and best practices into reusable AI capabilities using natural language.

Built into our Library, Skills define how the agent performs specific legal tasks, drawing on the knowledge, prompts, and workflows that already power your organization.

Why Skills matter

The Newcode Library is a configurable repository of your firm’s collective expertise. It lets you create and manage:

• —Prompts: Reusable instructions that help teams handle common tasks consistently.
• —Workflows: Automation for repeatable legal processes and business operations.
• —Knowledge Bases: Trusted sources of firm-specific information, precedents, templates and guidance.

Now, the Library goes further with Skills: repeatable capabilities that combine instructions, knowledge and context, enabling agents to complete tasks to your firm’s own standards.

Expertise, encoded

Drafting styles, review processes, playbooks and risk positions all differ, and practice groups within one firm often work to different standards.

Those differences are what make a firm’s work distinct. Skills let you capture that expertise and put it to work across your organization. Innovation teams can build Skills around firm-wide standards, practice groups can create specialized ones, and individual experts can share the benefit of their experience with colleagues.

• —Litigation: Guide how case summaries, witness chronologies and court filing packs are prepared.
• —Corporate: Review shareholder agreements in due diligence, surfacing the provisions that matter most and assessing risk against your negotiation positions.
• —Employment: Review workplace policies against evolving regulations.
• —Real estate: Analyse leases and flag deviations from preferred terms.
• —Banking: Review facility agreements for lender protections.
• —Privacy: Assess contracts against GDPR requirements.
• —Arbitration: Structure case assessments, identify key issues and draft submissions to established practice standards.

Each Skill is built from your firm’s own instructions, approved knowledge, workflows, templates and reference materials, so the output reflects your standards, not a generic default. Every practice can configure its Skills differently, and every team can improve them over time.

Train the agent with examples, including what not to do

The best legal training comes from understanding the difference between good work and poor work.

Skills let firms provide preferred outputs, model documents, precedents and exemplary work product. They can also include examples to avoid:

• —Commercial contracts: Incomplete risk assessments, overly aggressive redlines, or advice that lacks commercial context.
• —Litigation: Matter summaries that miss key facts or fail to distinguish procedural from substantive issues.
• —Knowledge: Outdated drafting styles, deprecated clauses, or responses that no longer match current firm policy.

Learning from both, the agent grasps not just the desired output but the judgement and reasoning behind it. The result is more consistent work, fewer revisions, and outputs that reflect how lawyers actually think and practise.

Turn That Great Work Into Repeatable Expertise

The best Skills often come from work that's already been completed. When the agent produces an output that reflects your firm's preferred approach, simply tell it:

"Turn this conversation into a skill."

The agent analyzes the interaction and transforms it into a reusable Skill, capturing the instructions, reasoning, examples, and context behind the work.

Whether it’s a contract review process that surfaced the right risks or a litigation analysis that followed your team's methodology, instead of rebuilding expertise from scratch, firms can capture it as it emerges and make it available across teams, matters, and practice groups.

Scaling expertise across the organization

A firm’s most valuable knowledge is often the hardest to reach. It lives in precedents, matter folders, playbooks, training materials and the experience of individual lawyers.

Skills make it operational. A partner’s approach to negotiating indemnities, a litigation team’s case assessment methodology, an employment practice’s policy review framework: all can be captured, refined and shared.

Instead of explaining the same process again and again, firms can teach it once. Instead of passing know-how from person to person, they can make it available across practice groups, offices and generations of lawyers. As teams use and refine their Skills, that knowledge becomes more accessible and keeps improving.

Control, built in

Skills follow the same configure-and-control model as everything else in Newcode, so you decide how they’re built, shared and governed.

• —You decide what’s shared. Make a Skill available to an individual, a team, a practice group or the whole firm.
• —You set the rules. Administrators control who can create, edit, approve and publish Skills.
• —Everything stays transparent. Every Skill can be reviewed, updated and audited as your requirements evolve.
• —Your knowledge stays yours. Skills draw only on the knowledge you approve and follow your security requirements, keeping firm expertise within firm boundaries.

The result is an agent that works to approved standards, with Skills flexible enough to fit each practice area and way of working.