Contract Renewal Tracker

/renewal-tracker

Surfaces what's renewing and when you have to cancel by.

Instructions

1. Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/renewal-register.yaml (the config directory — survives plugin updates).

2. Default mode: Mode 2 — what's coming up in the next 90 days, grouped by urgency using half-open intervals so each deadline lands in exactly one band: 🔴 0–13 days, 🟠 14–44 days, 🟡 45–89 days. Days 14, 45, and 90 are boundaries — each belongs to exactly one band, not two.

3. --days N: Change the window.

4. --missed: Mode 4 — cancel-by deadlines that passed without recorded cancellation.

5. If register is empty and the [CLM] is connected: Offer Mode 3 — scan the [CLM] for active agreements with renewal dates and bulk-load.

6. Output includes recommended actions: who to ping (the business owner from each register entry), which ones have uncapped pricing (get leverage before window closes).

Examples

/commercial-legal:renewal-tracker

/commercial-legal:renewal-tracker --days 180

/commercial-legal:renewal-tracker --missed

Purpose

Nobody reads a contract twice. The renewal date is extracted once, at review time, and then it lives somewhere — ideally somewhere that shouts at you 45 days before the cancel-by deadline, not 45 days after.

This skill maintains the renewal register and surfaces what's coming.

The register

Lives at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/renewal-register.yaml (the config directory — survives plugin updates). Each entry:

- counterparty: "Acme SaaS Inc."
  agreement: "Acme Platform Subscription Agreement"
  signed_date: 2025-06-15
  initial_term_end: 2026-06-15
  current_term_end: 2026-06-15     # rolls forward after each auto-renewal; compute cancel_by_* from this
  renewal_mechanism: "auto-renew annual"
  notice_period_days: 60
  notice_method: "email"           # email / portal / certified mail / registered post / courier / per contract §X
  transit_buffer_days: 0           # 0 for electronic, 5 for domestic certified mail, 10 for international registered post — or per contract if specified
  cancel_by_calendar: 2026-04-16    # current_term_end minus notice_period_days
  cancel_by_effective: 2026-04-16   # rolled back to last business day if needed
  send_by_effective: 2026-04-16    # cancel_by_effective minus transit_buffer_days — the date you must SEND the notice
  cancel_by_roll_note: ""           # e.g., "rolled back from Sunday 2026-11-01; verify against contract's business-day definition"
  cancel_by_provenance: "[model calculation — verify against the notice clause]"
  price_on_renewal: "then-current list (uncapped)"
  annual_value: 48000
  business_owner: "jane@company.com"
  clm_id:        "IC-12345"        # if connected
  docusign_envelope: "abc-123"   # if connected
  status: "active"               # active | cancelled | renewed | lapsed
  notes: "Pricing uncapped — revisit before renewal. Alt vendors: X, Y."

Notice transit time — alert off send_by_effective, not cancel_by_effective. A 60-day window with a certified-mail requirement is really ~55 days. The tracker that alerts on the received-by date is the tracker that misses the deadline. Compute send_by_effective = cancel_by_effective - transit_buffer_days and fire alerts (the 🔴 / 🟠 / 🟡 urgency bands in Mode 2) off send_by_effective. Mode 2's urgency column shows send_by_effective; a detail column surfaces cancel_by_effective, notice_method, and transit_buffer_days so the reader can see the delta and challenge the buffer.

Rolling renewals — the register that doesn't roll forward is the register that's right once. Store initial_term_end for the record, but compute cancel_by_* from current_term_end. When a renewal fires (the cancel window passes and no notice was given), prompt:

This contract auto-renewed on [date]. Update the register: new current_term_end is [date + renewal period], new cancel_by_effective is [computed], new send_by_effective is [computed]. Confirm?

After year one, initial_term_end is wrong and only current_term_end produces a correct cancel-by date.

Business-day check on every cancel-by date

The register's cancel-by date must be the last BUSINESS DAY on which notice is effective, not the calendar date. A calendar date that falls on a weekend is the single most common way a renewal deadline gets missed. The register catches it.

When you compute (or ingest) a cancel-by date:

1. Compute the calendar date. cancel_by_calendar = initial_term_end − notice_period_days (or whatever the clause specifies). This is the raw arithmetic.
2. Business-day roll-back keyed to governing law. The contract's governing law determines which holidays count. US: federal holidays + the state's holidays if governing law is a state. England & Wales: bank holidays. Germany: Feiertage (vary by Bundesland — ask which). Canada: federal + provincial. Singapore: public holidays. If Saturday, roll back to Friday. If Sunday, roll back to Friday. If a holiday in the governing-law jurisdiction, roll back to the prior business day. Roll BACK, never forward — forward means notice arrives after the window closes. For non-US governing law, if you can't determine the holiday calendar, flag it: "Governing law is [X] — business-day roll-back uses US federal holidays as a placeholder. Verify against the [jurisdiction] holiday calendar before relying on the effective date."
3. Check the contract's own day-counting rule. Look for "business day," "received by," "deemed received," "5:00 p.m. [local time]," or a notice-method clause. If the contract defines "business day" or specifies receipt mechanics (certified mail, email with read receipt), that definition controls. Flag any mismatch between the default roll-back and the contract's own rule.
4. Record BOTH dates in the register. cancel_by_calendar is the raw arithmetic; cancel_by_effective is the last business day on which notice is effective; cancel_by_roll_note records why they differ (e.g., "rolled back from Sunday 2026-11-01; verify against contract's business-day definition"). Every computed cancel_by_effective carries a cancel_by_provenance tag of [model calculation — verify against the notice clause] so the verify flag travels with the date, not with the surrounding prose.
5. Fire alerts off the EFFECTIVE date, not the calendar date. Urgency bands (🔴 / 🟠 / 🟡 in Mode 2) use cancel_by_effective. Mode 2 output shows cancel_by_effective in the urgency column and surfaces cancel_by_calendar and cancel_by_roll_note in a detail column where the roll-back happened, so the reader can see it and challenge it.

A Mode 2 report that prints cancel_by: 2026-11-01 (a Sunday) with no weekday and no warning is a silently wrong effective deadline. The register is the place to catch it — once, at ingest — not later, when the window has already moved.

Modes

Mode 1: Ingest a renewal (handoff from review)

When saas-msa-review or vendor-agreement-review finds a renewal clause, it hands off a record. Append it to the register. If the counterparty already has an entry, ask whether this is a replacement (renewed agreement) or an additional agreement.