1. Load

   ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/CLAUDE.md

   → bar jurisdiction, exam format, bar date, weak subjects, target study hours/day, prep course.
2. Load

   ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/study-plan.yaml

   if it exists.
3. Apply the framework below.
4. Route by flag:

   • --build

     (default if no plan exists): walk the inputs gate (exam, subjects, hours/week, days off, methods). Build the phase structure + daily schedule for the first two weeks. Write

     study-plan.yaml

     .

   • --update

     (default if plan exists): re-read

     session_history

     , adjust subject priorities and weekly_hours, fill in the next stretch of daily schedule.

   • --status

     : what's scheduled today / this week, score trend, subjects slipping, next scheduled session per subject.

   • --cram

     : force cram mode — 80/20 high-yield prioritization, daily MBE volume, taper last 2-3 days.
5. Before writing: summarize the plan in prose and confirm with the student. Adjust based on their answer.
6. Always sanity-check hours/week against the student's stated life constraints. Over-ambitious plans fail.

• Time-per-topic estimates are general guidance (based on typical commercial prep-course weightings). Flag them as estimates — the student's real pace will differ.
• Subject weightings are derived from the student's own reported weak subjects and session history. Confident.
• High-yield-topic prioritization in cram mode is based on multi-year bar exam release patterns (MBE/MEE subject frequency). Flag any "this is definitely on the exam" claim as

  [UNCERTAIN — past frequency is not a prediction]

  .

~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/CLAUDE.md

• Bar jurisdiction, exam format, bar date
• Current classes (for non-bar use)
• Weak subjects (MBE, essay)
• Prep course
• Target study hours/day

~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/study-plan.yaml

What are we building a plan for?

1. Bar exam (you have a bar date in mind)
2. A specific law school exam or set of finals
3. General semester study cadence (outlining, reading, drilling across all classes)

• Exam date: confirmed? (If bar: ask for jurisdiction if not in practice profile — study content depends on it.)
• Subjects to cover: for bar, read from NCBE subject outline for the exam format (NextGen / traditional UBE / state-specific). For a class, the syllabus. Confirm with student — "any subject I should add or drop?"
• Strongest subjects: least priority. Still reviewed, not drilled heavily.
• Weakest subjects: most priority. Get more sessions.
• Hours per week available: realistic, not aspirational. "I can do 20 hours" is different from "I will do 20 hours for 8 weeks." Ask what they can actually sustain.
• Life-context sanity check — force it. After the student gives a number, ask (one question at a time — do not skip):

  You said [N] hours per week. Before I build this, tell me what else is in your week — job (hours/week), family (kids, caregiving), commute, workout, therapy, clinic, anything meaningful. The plan should fit your life, not the other way around. A plan you can't follow is worse than a lighter plan you can.

  Wait for the answer. Then sanity-check the stated hours against their reported load:

  That's ~[X] hours/day across [N] study days, on top of [job + family + commute + other]. In my experience that's [realistic / tight / unsustainable]. Want to adjust the hours/week target before I build, or keep them and see how week 1 goes?

  Do not skip this step even if the practice profile's target hours number was already captured at cold-start. The profile captures what the student said; the life-context check captures whether it's sustainable. If the check produces a lower number, use the lower number for the plan and note the adjustment in the

  confidence_flags

  block.
  If the student declines to share life context ("just build it"), respect that — but add a

  confidence_flags

  entry: "Life-context check declined; plan assumes [N] hours/week is sustainable. Revisit at end of week 2 if adherence is below [X]%."
• Preferred study methods: multi-select. MBE practice / essays / flashcards / outlining / drilling / re-reading. Weight the schedule toward the methods they say they'll actually do.
• Days off per week: rest days matter. Plans that schedule 7/7 days fail in week 3.

~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/law-student/CLAUDE.md

Prep course

self

N/A

Your profile says you're on [prep course name]. They publish a day-by-day calendar with every subject and task scheduled. Two ways this plan can work — pick one:

1. Supplement. The prep course is your primary curriculum. This plan fills gaps: extra MBE drilling on your weak subjects, targeted essay practice, flashcard loops on the topics you're missing. I won't rebuild the prep-course calendar; I'll layer on top of it.
2. Replace. You're not following the prep-course calendar (maybe because its pacing doesn't work for your life). I'll build the whole plan — subjects, hours, phases, schedule — and you drop the prep-course calendar.

Don't pick both. Running two full curricula against each other is how students blow up in week 4.

prep_course_mode: supplement | replace

confidence_flags

self

N/A

• Split weeks into phases:
  • Learning phase (first ~60% of time): one subject per ~3-5 days, mixing outlining/reading with flashcards and a few MBE/essay questions on fresh material.
  • Drilling phase (next ~30%): more MBE volume, more essay practice, simulated conditions, all subjects in rotation.
  • Review phase (last ~10%): focused on weakest subtopics from session_history, full practice exams, light review of strong areas.
• Weight subjects by weakness: weak subjects get ~2x the hours of strong subjects.
• Schedule day-by-day: which subject, which method, how long. Leave slack for the student's actual life.

• Flag it: "You're less than four weeks out. This is cram mode — the plan prioritizes high-yield topics over full coverage. You will leave gaps. That's the tradeoff at this point."
• 80/20 prioritization: the MBE subjects that historically appear most (Civ Pro, Evidence, Con Law, Contracts) get the lion's share. Narrower subjects get minimum viable coverage.
• Daily schedule: MBE blocks every day (volume matters now), essay practice every other day, one simulated exam per week.
• Sleep and taper the last 2-3 days. Do not schedule hard drilling the day before the exam. This is real — students who cram through the night before score worse.

study-plan.md

## Outputs

STUDY NOTES — NOT LEGAL ADVICE

STUDY NOTES — NOT LEGAL ADVICE

Here's what I built. [X] weeks to the [exam]. [Y] hours/week across [Z] days. Weak subjects (Evidence, Contracts) get 2x the hours. Three phases: learning through [date], drilling through [date], review the last [N] days. I've scheduled the first two weeks day-by-day. Beyond that it's allocated by week — I'll fill in the daily schedule as you complete sessions, so the plan adapts to where you actually are.

Does this feel right? Too ambitious? Too light? Missing a subject?

session_history

session_history:
  - date: 2026-05-08
    subject: Evidence
    type: bar-prep-mbe
    n_questions: 10
    score: 6
    weak_subtopics: [hearsay-exceptions, character-evidence]

/law-student:study-plan --update

• Subjects with consistently low scores get promoted in

  priority

  and

  weekly_hours

  .
• Weak subtopics within a subject get flagged for the next scheduled session on that subject.
• If the student is falling behind (scheduled sessions not appearing in history), adjust: either compress coverage or note the gap and ask.
• If the student is ahead, open up time for deeper weak-subject drilling.

• /law-student:session <subject> <n>

  writes results to this plan's

  session_history

  .

• /law-student:bar-prep-questions

  reads the plan to know which subject is scheduled for today.

• /law-student:flashcards

  can

  --session <n>

  and results land in the plan.

• /law-student:socratic-drill

  and

  /law-student:irac-practice

  session completions also append.

• Guarantee you pass. The plan is a scaffold. The work is on you.
• Predict the exam. Cram mode uses historical subject frequency; high-yield ≠ guaranteed-tested.
• Replace your prep course schedule. If you're on a commercial prep course, this plan can supplement — don't run two full curricula against each other. Use one as primary.
• Schedule your life. Hours available is what you tell me. If you overstate, the plan will break in week 2. Be honest.