Legal Regulatory Compliance Mapper

Provides structured frameworks and checklists to map regulatory obligations, controls, evidence, and review plans for compliance program development.

Overview

Helps map regulatory obligations, controls, owners, evidence, and review cadence for a product, business unit, or jurisdiction. This is a descriptive OpenClaw skill for legal-industry workflow support. It provides structured frameworks, checklists, templates, and issue-spotting prompts. It does not execute code, call external APIs, access legal databases, retrieve court records, automate filings, or perform legal services.

When to Use

• Building a compliance program
• Entering a regulated market
• Preparing an internal audit

Target Users

• Compliance counsel
• In-house legal teams
• Risk managers
• Startup operators

Inputs to Collect

• Matter or project context, including jurisdiction if known
• Relevant facts, documents, parties, dates, and constraints
• Desired output format, audience, and level of detail
• Known deadlines, risk concerns, or review priorities

Core Modules

1. Regulatory obligation inventory — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
2. Control-owner mapping — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
3. Evidence and documentation tracker — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
4. Review cadence planner — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
5. Issue escalation matrix — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.

Workflow

1. Confirm the user's legal workflow goal and the relevant practice context.
2. Ask for missing facts, documents, dates, parties, jurisdiction, and audience where needed.
3. Apply the modules below as a structured thinking framework.
4. Produce checklists, templates, matrices, memos, or planning aids tailored to the user's context.
5. Flag uncertainty, verification needs, deadlines, ethics concerns, confidentiality issues, and attorney-review points.

Expected Outputs

• Compliance obligation map
• Controls tracker
• Evidence checklist
• Review calendar

Example Prompts

• "Map compliance obligations for a fintech product launch."
• "Create a regulatory controls tracker for a healthcare startup."

Safety and Legal Limitations

• This skill provides informational workflow support only and is not legal advice.
• It does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not replace review by a qualified attorney.
• Laws, court rules, deadlines, ethics duties, privilege, confidentiality, and professional responsibility rules vary by jurisdiction and matter.
• Users must verify all legal authorities, filing requirements, deadlines, facts, citations, and strategic decisions with qualified counsel.
• The skill must not be used to fabricate evidence, coach false testimony, evade regulation, access data unlawfully, or bypass confidentiality obligations.
• Specific limitation for this skill: Does not determine full legal compliance; users must confirm obligations with qualified jurisdiction-specific professionals.

Acceptance Criteria

• Package is descriptive only: no handler.py, scripts, external APIs, network calls, or command execution.
• SKILL.md and README.md are English-first and include an explicit legal-information disclaimer.
• Outputs are frameworks, checklists, templates, or planning aids rather than legal conclusions.
• Includes target users, when-to-use guidance, inputs, workflow, outputs, examples, and safety limitations.
• skill.json contains unique slug, tags, trigger keywords, requires_api=false, and readiness=stable.