Scriba is a study tool, not a ghostwriter. We designed it to help you understand cases faster, not to hand in work you didn't do. This page explains the specific guardrails and what you're agreeing to when you use Scriba.
What Scriba will do
- Help you brief cases by pulling passages you highlight into a FIRAC structure.
- Summarize an opinion so you can decide whether to read it end-to-end.
- Explain a doctrine in plain language and generate practice questions.
- Track what you've studied and when your exams are.
What Scriba will not do
- Write essays, take-home exam answers, or graded assignments for you.
- Generate work that could be submitted as your own without meaningful editing.
- Fabricate case citations — we surface an amber "verify" warning whenever we detect a case name in AI output.
Visual distinction for AI-suggested text
Every passage in a brief that Scriba pulled from a source is tinted and tagged so you can see at a glance which sentences came from a case and which are your own writing. Once you edit a tinted passage, the tag disappears — that passage now belongs to you.
AI disclosure export
You can export any brief as a Word document with an accompanying "AI Disclosure Report" that lists which passages were AI-assisted and which were student-written. Attach it if your professor asks how you used AI.
Your commitment
When you sign up you check a box confirming you'll follow your school's honor code. If your school prohibits AI-assisted study aids in a specific class, don't use Scriba for that class. If you're unsure, ask your professor before you rely on Scriba output for a graded task.
Reporting misuse
If you believe someone is using Scriba to cheat, email hello@scriba.study. We cooperate with law schools' academic integrity offices when properly requested.