Create Legal App

The Agent-Optimized Legal Tech Starter Kit.

🤖 Built for Agents: This repository is designed to be read by AI agents. It includes comprehensive internal documentation (AGENTS.md and skills/) that guides LLMs in generating production-ready legal tech code.

🚀 Overview

create-legal-app is a modern, opinionated starter kit for building legal technology applications. It provides a solid foundation with Next.js 15, Shadcn UI (Maia theme), and a structure pre-configured for complex legal workflows like document analysis, case management, and secure vaults.

What makes this different? Most starter kits are just code. This kit includes Instructional Metadata (Skills) that teach your AI coding assistant (Cursor, Windsurf, etc.) exactly how to implement semantic search, OCR pipelines, and legal-specific workflows using the Case.dev SDK.

✨ Features & Stack

• Framework: Next.js 15 (App Router)
• Language: TypeScript
• Styling: Tailwind CSS 4 + Shadcn UI (Maia Preset)
• Font: Inter & Spectral (Serif for legal texts)
• Package Manager: Bun
• Agent Skill System: Dedicated documentation in skills/ for:
  • case-dev: Legal AI, Vaults, OCR
  • database: Neon / Postgres schemas (Schema ready)
  • auth: Authentication patterns

🛠️ Getting Started

1. Initialize the Project

git clone https://github.com/CaseMark/create-legal-app.git my-legal-startup
cd my-legal-startup
bun install

2. Configure Environment

Copy the example environment file:

cp .env.example .env.local

Fill in your API keys (get your Case.dev keys from the Case.dev Console):

# .env.local
CASE_API_KEY=sk_case_...
DATABASE_URL=postgres://...

3. Run Development Server

bun dev

Open http://localhost:3000 to see the starter page.

🤖 For AI Agents

Are you an AI? Start by reading AGENTS.md.

1. Context: Read AGENTS.md to understand the project architecture and principles.
2. Skills: Before implementing a feature, check the skills/ directory. For example, if the user asks for "Document Upload", read skills/case-dev/SKILL.md.
3. Conventions: stricta file naming and kebab-case for utilities.

📚 Documentation Structure

• /app: Next.js App Router (Pages, Layouts, API Routes)
• /components: React components (UI primitives in /ui, custom in root)
• /lib: Shared utilities (Place your case-dev client here)
• /skills: The Brain. Contains Markdown files specifically for AI context.
  • /case-dev: SDK usage, Vaults, Workflows
  • /database: Schema design patterns
  • /auth: Auth flow documentation

📄 License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.