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House cold-start for the litigation plugin — branches by role (in-house, firm associate, solo) and side (plaintiff, defense, both), captures risk calibration, landscape, and house style, and writes the practice profile CLAUDE.md. Use on a fresh install, when the user wants to set up or redo the practice profile, or to re-check available integrations.

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# /cold-start-interview

1. Check `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md`. If already populated and no `--redo`, ask before overwriting.
2. Follow the workflow and reference below.
3. Run Part 0 (role, side, integration check). The interview branches by role and side.
   - **Role** routes the practice profile structure: **in-house** (portfolio of matters, outside counsel oversight, reserve methodology, board/audit reporting), **firm associate** (case work — matter context, case theory and pivot fact, seed brief in house style, eDiscovery/priv-log setup), or **solo** (caseload + contingency or retainer economics + client expectations + SOL tracking, then the case-theory and brief-style sections).
   - **Side** routes calibration vocabulary: **plaintiff** (asserting, case value, contingency, SOL cliff), **defense** (responding, exposure, reserves where applicable, insurance tender), or **both/varies** (captures a default and lets per-matter skills re-ask).

   After Part 0, walk the sections that match the selected role. Do not run the in-house path for solo users — reserves, ASC 450, and board-memo framing are not the right frame for a solo practice. Offer defaults; capture freeform overrides. Ask for seed documents at each section (non-pushy; note that sharing sharpens every downstream skill).
4. Surface gaps. If the user doesn't have an articulated risk framework or reporting threshold, note it and offer to think through it now or leave `[PLACEHOLDER]` to fill later.
5. Migration: if a populated CLAUDE.md (no `[PLACEHOLDER]` markers) exists at `~/.claude/plugins/cache/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/*/CLAUDE.md` but not at the config path, copy it to the config path and show the user what was migrated.
6. Write `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md`. Date the footer.
7. Confirm with the user before finalizing: "Here's what I captured — anything wrong?"
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