Claude Code skill#

licenseal ships a Claude Code skill that drives the review workflow interactively. Install it into the project, then invoke /licenseal-review in Claude Code:

licenseal install-skill                  # <project>/.claude/skills/licenseal-review/SKILL.md
licenseal install-skill --path ../other  # install into another project directory
licenseal install-skill --force          # overwrite a hand-edited skill

The skill runs licenseal check, walks through warnings, violations, unknown licenses, and analysis gaps, and asks how your project is distributed, hosted, modified, or shipped. It fills licenseal.review.toml from your decisions, only when there is a concrete reason that a reviewer can check, keeps genuine incompatibilities flagged, and re-runs the check so what is still flagged is explicit.

Claude Code licenseal review skill asking whether MPL dependencies were modified before marking them reviewed

The skill is written only inside the project (.claude/skills/), never globally, so it can be committed with the code it audits. Claude Code discovers it automatically.

Keeping the skill current#

The installed SKILL.md is a snapshot, so upgrading the package does not update it. When the bundled skill changes in a release, the next licenseal check prints a one-line reminder, and re-running install-skill rewrites an unedited install in place (no --force needed).