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CG Web Skills

Imprint specialist for German websites

cg-web-imprint

It does not fill in an imprint template. It determines the operator, the legal form, the business model, the industry and any special regimes first, and only then writes or revises the imprint.

4,221 words of method · Documented for version 1.4.0 · checked

Read the full SKILL.md

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It starts with the website, not a questionnaire

Existing legal pages, header and footer, company data in components, configuration and the CMS, shop, blog and author pages, social links, and hints of registers, chambers, licenses or supervisory authorities: Claude reads what the project and the public site already say, and searches for official register and chamber information, before it asks the user anything.

Check the website or project the skill is used on first.

cg-web-imprint · SKILL.md · translated from German

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The general duties of § 5 DDG

Name and address for service of process, legal form and representatives, fast electronic contact including an email address, register and register number, supervisory authority for licensed activities, the VAT ID or business ID where one exists, and liquidation status — easily recognizable, directly accessible and permanently available.

The skill must not recommend publishing the personal tax identification number.

cg-web-imprint · SKILL.md · translated from German

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Regulated professions, detected automatically

Doctors, dentists, psychotherapists, pharmacists, lawyers, notaries, tax advisors, auditors, architects, engineers, brokers and intermediaries under the GewO, experts: for each, Claude checks the statutory professional title, the state that granted it, the chamber, the professional rules and access to them, and professional liability insurance — per profession, per federal state, never as one template for all.

Use the website content and the business's services to recognize automatically whether a regulated profession is involved.

cg-web-imprint · SKILL.md · translated from German

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Dispute resolution under current law

Claude checks consumer dispute resolution under §§ 36 and 37 VSBG, including the exemption for businesses with ten or fewer employees, which does not lift every duty. Old templates are the risk here: the EU online dispute resolution platform no longer exists, so its link is flagged as outdated and removed wherever an older text still carries it — just like references to the TMG or RStV.

The former EU platform for online dispute resolution was shut down on 20.07.2025.

cg-web-imprint · SKILL.md · translated from German

What it never promises

No invented register numbers, VAT IDs, managing directors, chambers or insurers, no “disclaimer dump”, and no guarantee. Every finding in an audit is marked as fulfilled, to check, missing, not applicable or unclear — and never summed up as:

Do not use an overall rating such as “100 % legally watertight”.

cg-web-imprint · SKILL.md · translated from German

The principle it works by

The draft is the seventh step, not the first. What comes before it decides which of the many possible duties actually apply to this operator.

  1. Analyze the website/project
  2. Identify the operator
  3. Recognize business model/industry
  4. Determine general duties
  5. Check special duties
  6. Ask for missing data
  7. Draft the imprint
  8. Check placement and consistency
  9. Check it is up to date

Try asking Claude

  • Create the imprint for this website.
  • Audit our imprint. Is anything missing or outdated?
  • I'm a tax advisor. What has to go in my imprint?
  • We have a blog with editorial content. Do we need a responsible person under the MStV?
Terminal session
$ npx cg-web-skills@latest install cg-web-imprint