Expansion Update
OfficialFreeStreamline your international expansion project tracking.
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What Expansion Update does
The Expansion Update skill is designed to assist teams managing international expansion projects by keeping their progress organized and up-to-date. This skill allows users to return to an open expansion tracker and refresh the status of various items based on recent developments. It recalculates what tasks are now unblocked, flags overdue items, and highlights the next priorities that need attention. This ensures that project managers and team members can maintain a clear understanding of where the project stands and what actions are required moving forward.
To use the skill, you first need to load the necessary configuration file and identify the specific tracker file for the country in question. If the tracker does not exist, the skill provides guidance on how to initiate one. Once the tracker is loaded, the skill displays a summary of the current state of the expansion project, including the number of open, in-progress, done, and blocked items. This overview helps teams quickly assess the overall health of the project.
The skill further enhances communication by allowing users to input updates in a single prompt, rather than item by item. This feature streamlines the update process, making it easier to capture changes and new developments efficiently. After processing the updates, the skill automatically applies changes to the tracker, flags overdue items, and confirms the updates made, ensuring that everyone involved is on the same page regarding project status.
This skill is particularly useful for project managers, legal teams, and any stakeholders involved in international expansion efforts, as it helps maintain an organized and actionable project management workflow. By keeping the expansion tracker current, teams can make informed decisions and prioritize tasks effectively, ultimately leading to smoother project execution and timely expansions.
When to use it
Use this skill when there have been updates to an international expansion project since the last review, and the tracker needs to reflect the current state of progress.
When not to use it
This skill is not suitable for projects that do not have an established tracker or for users who need to manage unrelated tasks outside of international expansion.
What you can build with it
Updating Project Status
After a team meeting, use the skill to quickly update the expansion tracker with new developments and changes.
Flagging Overdue Items
Run the skill to identify overdue tasks that require immediate action, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.
Prioritizing Next Steps
Use the skill to surface the next priorities based on the most urgent tasks, helping the team focus on what matters most.
How to install Expansion Update
View source1. Install with the skills CLI
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal/expansion-update --agent claude-code2. Or install it manually
Download the skill folder and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects, or .claude/skills/ to scope it to one repo. Restart Claude Code so it picks up the new skill.
Anthropic's agentic coding CLI, and the reference implementation of Agent Skills. Drop a skill folder into ~/.claude/skills and Claude Code loads it automatically whenever a task matches the skill's description. Claude Code docs
Inside SKILL.md
Written by anthropics/expansion-update
Returns to an open expansion tracker and updates item status based on what has happened since the last session. Recalculates what is now unblocked, flags anything overdue, and surfaces the next priorities.
Instructions
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Load
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/CLAUDE.md. -
Identify the tracker file:
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/employment-legal/expansion-[slug].yaml. If it doesn't exist, respond: "No expansion tracker found for [country]. Run/employment-legal:expansion-kickoff [country]to start one." -
Read the tracker. Show the current state:
[Country] Expansion — last updated [date]
Open: [N] | In progress: [N] | Done: [N] | Blocked: [N]
Next priorities (open items with earliest due dates or highest-dependency):
[item] — owner: [owner]
[item] — owner: [owner]
[item] — owner: [owner]
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Ask for updates in a single prompt — do not ask about each item one by one:
Which items have moved since we last looked? Tell me what's changed (e.g., "EOR decision made — going with Deel", "outside counsel engaged — call scheduled for Thursday", "PE analysis still open, waiting on tax"). You can also add new items or change due dates.
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Apply updates to the tracker file. For any item newly marked
done, check whether it unblocks other items and flag those as now actionable. -
If any item has a due date that has passed and is still
openorin-progress, flag it:
⚠️ Overdue: [item] — was due [date], owner: [owner]
- Write the updated tracker. Confirm:
Tracker updated — [N] items closed, [N] still open.
Next priority: [top open item].
Examples
/employment-legal:expansion-update Germany
/employment-legal:expansion-update
(will ask which country if multiple trackers exist)
Detailed tracker schema, item-status rules, and dependency logic live in the
international-expansionreference skill — load it before doing substantive work.
Frequently asked questions about Expansion Update
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