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title: "counsel — Legal matter command for governed AI workflows"
version: "0.1.0"
date-released: "2026-05-29"
abstract: >-
  Policy-gated AI workflows for legal matter management, document review,
  obligation mapping, and proof-chain delivery. Component of the SZL Holdings
  governed AI decision infrastructure, built on the Ouroboros Thesis
  (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19944926).
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: Lutar
    given-names: "Stephen P."
    name-suffix: "Jr."
    email: stephen@szlholdings.com
    affiliation: SZL Holdings
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0110-4173"
license: LicenseRef-SZL-Proprietary
url: "https://github.com/szl-holdings/counsel"
repository-code: "https://github.com/szl-holdings/counsel"
keywords:
  - szl-holdings
  - ai-governance
  - legal-tech
  - matter-management
  - document-review
  - proof-chain
  - governed-ai
identifiers:
  - description: "Ouroboros Thesis concept DOI — always-latest"
    type: doi
    value: "10.5281/zenodo.19944926"
  - description: "ORCID iD of the principal author"
    type: other
    value: "https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0110-4173"