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Legal Ed Skills Hub (Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab)

A 2026 agent-native surface from the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab: a static JSON API for progressively discovering and loading pedagogical AI skills for legal education, organized by persona (professor, student, pro-se, CLE, skill-developer). Ships a hand-written OpenAPI 3.1.0 document whose servers[] self-declares harvard-lil.github.io/lawskills-hub, so the surface identifies itself as the lab's own. The only contract in this profile that Harvard both wrote and exclusively operates, and the only one designed for agent consumption from the start.

Legal Ed Skills Hub (Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab) is one of 14 APIs that Harvard University publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include Agent Skills, Legal Education, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAPI, and Static API. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://harvard-lil.github.io/lawskills-hub.

4 operations 4 paths 4 schemas 4 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://harvard-lil.github.io/lawskills-hub
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 4

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Operations 4
GET
/actions/personas.json
List all available personas
listPersonas → 200
GET
/actions/personas/{persona_id}.json
Get full detail for one persona
getPersona 1 param → 200
GET
/actions/skills/{persona_id}/{skill_name}.json
Get full skill instructions
getSkill 2 params → 200
GET
/actions/skills/{persona_id}/{skill_name}/references/{ref_name}.json
Get a skill's reference document
getReference 3 params → 200

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SkillDetail (8 properties), PersonaDetail (7 properties), ReferenceDetail (4 properties), PersonaIndex (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

PersonaIndex
object
2 properties
PersonaDetail
object
7 properties
SkillDetail
object
8 properties
ReferenceDetail
object
4 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

harvard-lil-legal-ed-skills-hub-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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