How does it handle punctuation and character styles?

It automatically converts English punctuation to Chinese standard punctuation and normalizes numbers to half-width format for professional consistency.

Does it support both laws and court cases?

Yes, it identifies whether the input is a statute or a judicial case and applies specific formatting rules tailored to that document type.

Will it delete important legal information during cleaning?

No. The skill follows a strict Content Integrity principle, ensuring all legal substance is preserved while only removing promotional metadata and advertisements.

Can this skill scrape legal websites directly?

No, this skill focuses on formatting and cleaning text. It should be used in combination with a scraping skill, such as wechat-article-fetch, to first acquire the content.

Does it keep a record of the original unformatted text?

Yes, the skill automatically creates an archive directory containing both the raw 'as-is' text and the formatted version for verification and traceability.

Legal Text Formatter

Name: Legal Text Formatter
Author: cat-xierluo

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Productivity & Workflow

Standardizes legal statutes and court cases into clean Markdown format while removing redundant promotional content and advertisements.

This skill transforms raw legal text—such as civil codes, criminal laws, and judicial precedents—into structured, professional Markdown documents. It automatically identifies the text type, applies specific formatting rules like bolding article numbers and normalizing punctuation, and strips away irrelevant marketing clutter. By archiving both raw and processed versions with metadata, it ensures content integrity and traceability for legal professionals, researchers, and developers building legal knowledge bases. It is designed to work seamlessly with web-scraping skills to create a complete document-to-knowledge pipeline.

Key Features

01Normalization of punctuation and numeric characters to standard Chinese formats

02Integrated archiving system that preserves raw source files for verification

03Standardized Markdown conversion with hierarchical headers and bolded articles

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05Automated removal of promotional footers, author intros, and web clutter

06Automatic recognition of legal statutes versus judicial case files

Use Cases

01Formatting official judicial precedents for inclusion in professional legal reports

02Converting messy web-scraped legal articles into a clean personal knowledge base

03Cleaning up pasted legal statutes for documentation or developer-facing AI training data

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add cat-xierluo/legal-skills legal-text-format

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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