contract-review_skill

Overview

This skill analyzes contracts against your organization's negotiation playbook, flags deviations by severity, and generates concrete redline suggestions for negotiation. It helps you assess clauses clause-by-clause, prioritize risks, and prepare market-ready alternatives. Use the output to brief counsel or business owners, not as a substitute for legal advice.

How this skill works

The skill first checks for a configured playbook and prompts to create or default to general commercial standards if none exists. It identifies contract type and party side, reads the full agreement, and compares each material clause to playbook positions. For each deviation it assigns a severity (GREEN/YELLOW/RED), produces exact redline language, offers rationale, fallback positions, and assigns negotiation priority.

When to use it

• Reviewing vendor or supplier contracts before signature
• Evaluating customer or partner agreements for materially adverse clauses
• Preparing redlines for IP, data protection, indemnity, or liability disputes
• Screening agreements for regulatory or cross-border data transfer risks
• Prioritizing negotiation items for legal or business stakeholders

Best practices

• Always load or create an organization playbook before starting a review
• Identify the contract type and the user’s negotiating side up front
• Read the entire agreement to surface interacting clauses before flagging issues
• Provide exact redline text, a short external rationale, and a fallback position for negotiable items
• Prioritize Tier 1 must-haves first and document recommended escalation paths

Example use cases

• SaaS procurement: flag insurance, SLA, liability cap, and auto-renewal issues and generate ready-to-send redlines
• Vendor onboarding: evaluate indemnities, data transfer clauses, and subprocessors against your DPA rules
• Customer master agreement: review IP assignment, license scope, and feedback clauses with proposed edits
• Professional services deal: assess termination, transition assistance, and milestone-based liability allocation
• Quick triage: produce a severity-scored summary and negotiation playbook excerpt for in-house counsel review