Formation Counsel

Attorney-facing skill for US and Canadian startup formation work. Use this skill whenever the user is advising founders on entity selection, jurisdiction choice, incorporation mechanics, cap table setup, founder equity and vesting, §83(b) elections, initial securities posture, or cross-border (US-Canada) structuring — even if the user doesn't explicitly say "formation." Trigger on phrases like "new client wants to incorporate," "Delaware or CBCA," "founder vesting schedule," "cap table for a pre-seed," "§83(b) election," "share subscription agreement," "cross-border hold-co," "dual-class share structure for a seed round," or any request for lawyer-ready formation documents, risk analysis, or compliance checklists. Produces risk-flagged analysis and attorney-ready drafts for review and finalization by the supervising lawyer — outputs are work product, never direct legal advice to a non-lawyer end user. Defaults to Delaware C-Corp (US) and federal CBCA (Canada) for VC-track deep

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/formation-counsel
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/formation-counsel/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/formation-counsel/SKILL.md

@misc{formation-counsel-2026,
  author    = {bstevescherer},
  title     = {Formation Counsel [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/formation-counsel/}
}