Contract Review
evolsb/claude-legal-skill
Review legal contracts, NDAs, employment agreements, SaaS terms, and M&A documents.
Reviews and negotiates commercial agreements — MSAs, SOWs, order forms, NDAs, vendor and data-processing agreements — identifying material risk, proposing positions, and recommending a path rather…
Install Contract Review
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill contract-review -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount contract-review --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review .claude/skills/contract-review && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "contract-review" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review into .claude/skills/contract-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "contract-review", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-reviewType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill contract-review -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount contract-review --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review .agents/skills/contract-review && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "contract-review" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review into .agents/skills/contract-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "contract-review", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill contract-review -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount contract-review --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review .cursor/skills/contract-review && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "contract-review" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review into .cursor/skills/contract-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "contract-review", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git --path plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill contract-review -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount contract-review --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review .gemini/skills/contract-review && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "contract-review" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review into .gemini/skills/contract-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "contract-review", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount contract-reviewInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill contract-review -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review .github/skills/contract-review && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "contract-review" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review into .github/skills/contract-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "contract-review", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill contract-review -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount contract-review --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review .opencode/skills/contract-review && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "contract-review" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review into .opencode/skills/contract-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "contract-review", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
contract-review- GitHub stars
- 2k
- Token cost
- ~919 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 483 words
- Files
- 2 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 178
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Reviews and negotiates commercial agreements — MSAs, SOWs, order forms, NDAs, vendor and data-processing agreements — identifying material risk, proposing positions, and recommending a path rather…
- Works in 6 steps: Limitation of liability — the cap, what… → Indemnities — who indemnifies whom, for… → IP and data rights — who owns what is… → …
- Tasks that involve Contract review
- SKILL.md covers Review in risk order, Position, do not merely flag, Make it scalable and Sources, plus 2 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Contract Review is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Reviews and negotiates commercial agreements — MSAs, SOWs, order forms, NDAs, vendor and data-processing agreements — identifying material risk, proposing positions, and recommending a path rather than listing issues. Use this to review a contract before signature, prepare a negotiation position, build fallback positions and approval thresholds, or assess exposure in terms already agreed.
Its SKILL.md is about 920 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/sources.md`).
It sits in Legal & Compliance, covering Contract review. The repository describes itself as: An agent organization structured as a company — 15+ departments, 125+ skills, each independently installable, citing the standards and regulators that settle the question. Runs… The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Tasks that involve Contract review
Example prompts
- “Use the contract-review skill to review and negotiates commercial agreements — MSAs, SOWs, order forms, NDAs, vendor and data-processing agreements…”
- “/contract-review”
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Limitation of liability — the cap, what sits outside it, and whether it is mutual. An
- Indemnities — who indemnifies whom, for what, and who controls the defense. Read the scope
- IP and data rights — who owns what is created, what rights each side gets to the other's
- Term and termination — auto-renewal, notice windows, termination for convenience, and what
- Payment and change — when payment is due, what triggers a change order, and whether scope can
- Warranties and service levels — what you have committed to deliver, and whether operations
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 98d1c17. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Contract Review loads about 919 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 102 tokens; SKILL.md has 483 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from cbrock84/headcount at commit 98d1c17, republished under its MIT licence (© cbrock84). 483 words, ~919 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/contract-review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- contract-review
- description
- Reviews and negotiates commercial agreements — MSAs, SOWs, order forms, NDAs, vendor and data-processing agreements — identifying material risk, proposing positions, and recommending a path rather than listing issues. Use this to review a contract before signature, prepare a negotiation position, build fallback positions and approval thresholds, or assess exposure in terms already agreed.
Contract review
Not legal advice. This structures a commercial review and identifies what needs qualified counsel. Jurisdiction-specific questions, litigation, employment, financing, and M&A go to a licensed attorney.
Review in risk order
Read for these first. Everything else is negotiable detail.
- Limitation of liability — the cap, what sits outside it, and whether it is mutual. An uncapped indemnity or a carve-out for a broad category can exceed the contract's entire value.
- Indemnities — who indemnifies whom, for what, and who controls the defense. Read the scope against what you actually do; indemnifying for a use you cannot control is the trap.
- IP and data rights — who owns what is created, what rights each side gets to the other's data, and what survives termination. Ambiguity here surfaces years later at the worst moment.
- Term and termination — auto-renewal, notice windows, termination for convenience, and what happens to data and obligations afterward. Missed notice windows are the most common self-inflicted contract loss.
- Payment and change — when payment is due, what triggers a change order, and whether scope can move without price moving.
- Warranties and service levels — what you have committed to deliver, and whether operations can actually deliver it. Commitments that outrun capability are made in contracts and discovered in incidents.
Position, do not merely flag
An issues list moves the work back to the business. For each material point, state: the risk in plain terms, its realistic impact, the preferred position, an acceptable fallback, and what is a genuine walk-away.
Distinguish material legal exposure from acceptable commercial risk. Treating every deviation as a blocker trains people to route around review, which is the worst outcome available.
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Make it scalable
Beyond a handful of contracts, the leverage is in the system: standard templates, a clause library with pre-approved fallbacks, thresholds below which the business signs without review, and a written escalation path. Review every contract personally and you become the bottleneck the process was meant to prevent.
Sources
references/sources.md in this skill lists the outside authorities that settle the questions
here — what each one is authoritative for, and what you may do with it. Check them before
answering on anything they cover, and cite what you used. Most are free to read and not free
to reproduce; the use note on each is binding.
Tooling
Contract lifecycle management: Ironclad, Icertis, Agiloft, DocuSign CLM, LinkSquares, and similar. Signature alone — DocuSign, Dropbox Sign, PandaDoc — is a different and much smaller purchase.
The value in CLM is the clause library and the searchable repository, not the approval workflow. If you cannot answer "which of our contracts cap indemnity below the fee paid" in a minute, that is the gap worth buying against.
Never
- Approve terms whose operational obligations you have not confirmed are achievable.
- Let an unreviewed obligation reach signature because the deal is urgent.
- Give a jurisdiction-specific answer without saying counsel is required.
© cbrock84, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review of cbrock84/headcount.
- SKILL.md
- references/sources.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17
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| Contract Review this skillcbrock84/headcount | 2k | — | ~919 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
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| Tabular Document Reviewanthropics/claude-for-legal | 9.6k | 3 repos | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
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Questions about Contract Review
What does Contract Review do?
Reviews and negotiates commercial agreements — MSAs, SOWs, order forms, NDAs, vendor and data-processing agreements — identifying material risk, proposing positions, and recommending a path rather…. Contract Review is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Reviews and negotiates commercial agreements — MSAs, SOWs, order forms, NDAs, vendor and data-processing agreements — identifying material risk, proposing positions, and recommending a path rather than listing issues.
When should I use Contract Review?
Contract Review fits situations like: tasks that involve Contract review.
How do I install Contract Review in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill contract-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review in cbrock84/headcount) into .claude/skills/contract-review in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Contract Review in Codex?
Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill contract-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/legal-risk/skills/contract-review in cbrock84/headcount) into .agents/skills/contract-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Contract Review in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill contract-review -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/contract-review, .gemini/skills/contract-review, .github/skills/contract-review and .opencode/skills/contract-review in your project.
What does Contract Review need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Contract Review is instructions for the agent only.
Does Contract Review access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Contract Review safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Contract Review use?
Contract Review is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Contract Review use?
About 919 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 218 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Contract Review?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Contract Review: Contract Review (evolsb/claude-legal-skill, 464 stars), Commercial Legal Pl (apiotrowski-afk/commercial-legal-pl, 176 stars), Hand Drawn (threerocks/hand-drawn-styles, 2.2k stars) and Tabular Document Review (anthropics/claude-for-legal, 9.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Contract Review?
cbrock84 (a GitHub user) maintains it in cbrock84/headcount, which has 2,022 GitHub stars. The repository holds 178 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 17, 2026.
Source: cbrock84/headcount on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.