vn-law-check

# vn-law-check

Has your AI coding agent audit a website or app against Vietnamese law, such as data protection and e-commerce rules, and return a ranked report with fixes. For developers and startups building for Vietnam.

Made by mhfed on GitHub. These notes are Mindket's, written from its README; the project's own files and license are in its repository.

## About

What it is: vn-law-check is an open-source toolkit that tells your AI coding agent to check a website or mobile app for legal risks under Vietnamese law. The agent sorts the site by type, runs matching checklists and returns a report ranked by priority. It also suggests what to fix before launch.

Who it suits: It suits developers and small teams who build websites or apps for Vietnam, especially ones that collect personal data, run tracking, take payments or use an AI chatbot.

```table
Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example
E-commerce | Shop owners and their developers | Check carts, payments and the refund policy for legal gaps | Audit a demo coffee shop site and find a privacy policy that treats continued use as consent
Startups | Fast-growing product teams | Run an audit while building, without waiting for a legal team | Check a login and tracking setup before launch
Marketing and advertising | Teams that run ads and analytics | Review pixels, ad SDKs and advertising content | Check how Google Analytics, Meta Pixel and TikTok Pixel are used on a landing page
AI products | Teams with a chatbot on the frontend | Check the consent flow around an AI tool | Audit a site that adds an AI chatbot to its pages
```

Teams with no site or app for Vietnamese users can skip it, and so can anyone who needs a lawyer's sign-off rather than a first-pass review.

Where to use it: It works inside AI coding tools, for both websites and mobile apps.

- Claude Code, as a plugin
- Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Cline and Codex, through an install script
- A project's source code, or just the address of a live website
- Team reviews, by reading the checklists in the references folder without any AI agent

```table
Use case | Who | What they get back
Pre-launch audit | A developer | A report ranked as fix now, should improve, pass or not applicable
Fix the findings | A developer | Edits from the agent after you ask it to fix the fix-now items
Draft a privacy policy | A founder | A draft based on your code, with the data collected and the services it goes to
```

How to set it up: You need one of the supported AI tools and a project folder.

- Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Cline or Codex
- A project folder, or the address of a live website
- A shell that can run bash, for the install script

1. In Claude Code, type the two commands below. Type them inside Claude Code, not in a terminal.
2. For Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Cline or Codex, run the project's install script from the README inside your project folder.
3. The script copies the checklists into .vn-law-check/ and overwrites none of your files. If the project has an AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md, it adds one short paragraph so the AI knows how to use the toolkit.
4. Another route is to clone the repository straight into ~/.claude/skills/vn-law-check, with no marketplace. For one project only, use .claude/skills/ inside that project.

```text
/plugin marketplace add mhfed/vn-law-check
/plugin install vn-law-check
```

How to use it: Open your project and ask the agent for a legal audit in Vietnamese. The request below means audit this website under Vietnamese law. With no source code, give the site's address after the same request.

```text
audit pháp lý website này theo luật Việt Nam
```

Read the report, then ask the agent to fix the fix-now items. To get a privacy policy, send the request below, which means draft a privacy policy for this project.

```text
soạn chính sách bảo mật cho dự án này
```

Example: You run the audit on a shop project. The report flags a privacy policy line that counts continued use of the site as consent. It quotes the file and line and cites Article 9, clause 4, point d of Law 91/2025/QH15, which says silence is not consent. It suggests removing the line and asking for clear consent where data is collected.

For newcomers and experts: You do not need to read the law first. Give the agent your project and it reports in plain priority levels. A good first try is to audit the project you are about to launch and read the fix-now items first.

The toolkit is a skill with checklists tied to Vietnamese statutes. It classifies the site, runs the matching checklists, then writes each finding with its file and line, its legal basis and a suggested fix. Where the author could not match an item to the full legal text, it is marked as not verified. A few dozen items are still marked that way.

```flow
You give the agent your project or a site address
The agent classifies the site
It runs checklists based on Vietnamese law
It writes a report ranked by priority
You ask the agent to fix the urgent items
```

Good to know:

- It is a first-pass review made by AI, not a replacement for a lawyer, and it does not guarantee legal compliance
- Sensitive work with data collection, payments, ads or AI should get a legal review
- Most fix-now items are small code edits that take a few hours
- A blog or static page that collects nothing gets only a one-line note
- It covers Vietnam's laws on personal data, e-commerce, cybersecurity, advertising and AI, plus consumer rights and electronic transactions, last cross-checked on 3 November 2026
- The repository is free, and the only cost is the AI usage in the tool you already have

## On GitHub, 6 November 2026

- Stars: 451
- Forks: 99
- Watching: 1
- Open issues and pull requests: 13
- Language: Shell
- License: see the repository
- Topics: agent-md, agent-skills, claude-code, claude-plugin, claude-skills, compliance, copilot-instructions, cursor-rules, data-protection, ecommerce, legal-tech, pdpl

## Links

- Code: https://github.com/mhfed/vn-law-check
- Website: https://mhfed.github.io/vn-law-check/
- Releases: https://github.com/mhfed/vn-law-check/releases
- Issues: https://github.com/mhfed/vn-law-check/issues
- Star history: https://www.star-history.com/#mhfed/vn-law-check&Date

## Get the code

```
git clone https://github.com/mhfed/vn-law-check.git
```

Then follow the setup in its README. Nothing in this kit runs by itself.

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