Legal: Litigation Chronology Assembly with Claude Code: API Runtime Pattern
A production playbook for litigation chronology assembly in legal operations using Claude Code: api runtime pattern, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Litigation teams preparing case timelines
The problem
Litigation teams preparing case timelines need litigation chronology assembly to run repeatedly against pleadings, discovery exports, emails, deposition notes, and evidence folders. In legal operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.
Implementation path
Package the litigation chronology assembly instructions as a skill, send pleadings, discovery exports, emails, deposition notes, and evidence folders as run-scoped inputs, execute with Claude Code, poll terminal status, and consume argo.result.v1 instead of parsing a transcript.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
The API boundary forces the workflow to define inputs, terminal states, and result shape before customers depend on it. For litigation chronology assembly, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.
Run request
POST /api/skills/<skill_id>/run
provider=claude-code
workflow=legal-litigation-timeline
inputs[]=@./input-pack.zip
result_schema=argo.result.v1
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