Review Contract
Skill ActiveReview a contract against your organization's negotiation playbook — flag deviations, generate redlines, provide business impact analysis. Use when reviewing vendor or customer agreements, when you need clause-by-clause analysis against standard positions, or when preparing a negotiation strategy with prioritized redlines and fallback positions.
To automate and standardize contract review processes, ensuring alignment with organizational negotiation strategies and identifying key risks.
Features
- Clause-by-clause contract analysis
- Playbook deviation flagging (GREEN/YELLOW/RED)
- Redline generation with rationale
- Business impact and negotiation strategy summary
- Support for multiple contract input formats
Use Cases
- Reviewing vendor or customer agreements
- Ensuring clause-by-clause analysis against standard positions
- Preparing negotiation strategies with prioritized redlines
- Assessing overall contract risk profile
Non-Goals
- Providing legal advice
- Acting as a substitute for qualified legal counsel review
- Reviewing contracts in languages other than English without explicit user request
Workflow
- Accept contract input (file, URL, text)
- Gather user context (side, deadline, focus areas)
- Load organization's contract review playbook
- Perform clause-by-clause analysis against playbook
- Flag deviations (GREEN/YELLOW/RED)
- Generate redline suggestions and business impact summary
- Provide negotiation strategy and recommend next steps
Practices
- Legal document analysis
- Risk assessment
- Negotiation strategy
Prerequisites
- Organization's contract review playbook (optional, with fallback)
- Contract document (file, URL, or text)
Documentation
- warning:Configuration & parameter referenceThe SKILL.md mentions loading playbooks from local settings like 'legal.local.md' but does not explicitly document how to configure or provide these files, nor does it detail any other potential parameters or their precedence.
Trust
- warning:Issues AttentionIn the last 90 days, 29 issues were opened and 4 were closed, indicating a low closure rate and potentially slow response from maintainers.
Compliance
- info:GDPRThe skill operates on contract data which may contain personal data; while it doesn't explicitly sanitize it, it does not submit this data to third parties, and the primary use is internal analysis.
Installation
First, add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/plugin install legal@knowledge-work-pluginsQuality Score
Trust Signals
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