Five free tools that run in your own AI assistant. They sort your arrest into its two cases, calculate your license-hearing deadline from your Form 2385, explain court terms in plain English, and turn what happened into questions for a lawyer. Legal information, not legal advice.
If you, a family member, or a friend is facing a Missouri DWI, these tools help you understand what's happening and get ready for a conversation with a lawyer. They are automated instructions for an AI assistant — not a lawyer, and not a substitute for one.
Need a lawyer? The Missouri Bar Lawyer Referral Service can help.
Start with intake to find your deadline. Each tool handles one part of the situation. Click any step to open it.
A canned demo with synthetic facts, shortened. The real skill runs inside your own AI assistant, on your situation.
TopDWI publishes instruction files; it doesn't run a chatbot. You bring the skill to the AI assistant you already use, so TopDWI never sees what you type.
Each skill is limited to Missouri rules that have been checked against the statute or regulation itself. Anything that couldn't be confirmed is marked open, and the skill says so instead of guessing.
Using AI safely →Upload the .skill file to Claude, or paste the paste-ready text into ChatGPT or another assistant.
Each answer ends with the Missouri sources it relied on, so you can check them.
A free set of five legal-information skills for people facing a Missouri DWI. Each skill is a plain-text instruction file you run in your own AI assistant, such as Claude or ChatGPT. It helps you organize what happened, find your license-hearing deadline, understand court terms, and prepare questions before you talk to a lawyer.
No. The skills are automated instructions for an AI assistant. They give general information about Missouri law, not advice about your case, and using them creates no attorney-client relationship with TopDWI or anyone else. For advice, talk to a Missouri lawyer; the Missouri Bar Lawyer Referral Service can help you find one.
An arrest starts a criminal case in court and a separate action against your driver's license by the Missouri Department of Revenue. The license case has its own short deadline: a hearing request is due 15 days after the Form 2385 notice was handed to you, or 18 days if it was mailed, and a mailed request counts on its postmark date (12 CSR 10-24.030(1)). Confirm your date with DOR or a lawyer.
Every rule is checked against primary sources — Missouri statutes, regulations, and case law — pin-cited to the subsection, and dated, under a published verification protocol. Questions that can't be confirmed are marked open, and the skills won't state them as settled. Corrections are logged in the changelog.
The skills are free. TopDWI never sees what you type: the skills run inside your own AI assistant, under that service's privacy settings. Share only what you need to, and leave out your Social Security number, license number, and address.
TopDWI is affiliated with Porter | Smith Law, a Missouri law firm. Using TopDWI does not make you a client of that firm or any other. The source and every change are public on GitHub.
Pick a skill to see what it does and read its full SKILL.md. For Claude, download the .skill file. For ChatGPT or other assistants, open the skill's page and copy the paste-ready text.
↓ Download all five skills (.zip)
You don't need all five. Start with intake to find your deadline, then use the others as questions come up. Each one hands off to the next, and each ends with the sources it relied on.
AI is fast and sounds confident, and sounding confident is not the same as being right. A well-formatted answer can still contain a wrong date or a rule that doesn't exist. These skills are built around that, and your habits should be too.
Treat every AI answer as a starting point. Check the dates against your paperwork, and check the rules against the sources it lists.
OPEN, and the skills will not state them as settled. The method and every correction are published at /verification-protocol.No accounts with TopDWI, no setup. Pick the path for the AI assistant you use. The full setup guide has more detail.
Most people start with Intake & Deadlines. Have your Form 2385 notice in front of you.
Download the .skill file, then in Claude go to Settings → Capabilities → Skills and upload it. Start a new chat.
On the skill's page, press Copy paste-ready text. Open a new chat, paste it, and send it.
In plain words, with the dates printed on your paperwork: the date on the Form 2385, and whether it was handed to you or mailed.
Confirm every date with DOR, the court, or a Missouri attorney. Bring the checklist to your lawyer.
TopDWI is a free set of legal-information tools for people facing a Missouri DWI. A DWI is two cases at once — a criminal case and a separate driver's-license case with a short deadline — and the stress of an arrest makes both hard to follow. The tools organize your situation into plain-language checklists so you can understand it and prepare for a lawyer.
TopDWI publishes instruction files; it doesn't run a chatbot or collect your information. You run the skills in your own AI assistant.
The skills give general legal information about Missouri law, current as of October 2026. They are not legal advice, they are not a lawyer, and using them creates no attorney-client relationship. They never tell you what to do, predict an outcome, or decide whether evidence is valid. Every date they calculate must be confirmed with the Missouri Department of Revenue, the court, or a Missouri attorney.
Website code: MIT (LICENSE-CODE). Skills and written materials: the TopDWI Skills License — free for personal use (including your own legal matter), education, and legal practices, with attribution. No resale.
Source on GitHub · Research & verification · Cite TopDWI · Press kit
TopDWI is affiliated with Porter | Smith Law, a Missouri law firm. Using TopDWI does not make you a client of that firm or any other. To find a lawyer, the Missouri Bar Lawyer Referral Service is a neutral place to start. TopDWI's sister project, TopMVA, uses the same verification-first approach for Missouri car-crash matters.
Get all five as .skill files, or browse them one at a time.