Negotiate

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Reviewing a contract before signing
• Preparing for a negotiation
• Responding to unfavorable terms
• With /negotiate

Example prompts

• “/negotiate”
• “generate counter-proposals for this contract”
• “Use the negotiate skill to analyz contracts for unfavorable or risky clauses and generates prioritized counter-proposals with replacement language”
• “/negotiate”

Requirements

• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Identify the contract. Locate the contract file using Glob. If multiple contracts
2. 2Read the full contract. Use Read to ingest the entire document. Note the parties,
3. 3Classify the user's position. Determine which party the user represents and their
4. 4Scan for unfavorable clauses. Evaluate every section against these risk categories
5. 5Prioritize findings into three tiers
6. 6Generate counter-proposals. For each flagged clause
7. 7Draft a professional email template. Create a ready-to-send email that
8. 8Compile the strategy document. Assemble all findings into the output format below.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Glob
  • Grep

  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

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • commonpaper.com
  • bonterms.com
  • americanbar.org
  • score.org

  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.

• Compatibility

  Designed for Claude Code

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Negotiate loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 683 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~80

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.8k

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

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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 683 words, ~1,769 tokens.

name

negotiate

description

Analyzes contracts for unfavorable or risky clauses and generates prioritized counter-proposals with replacement language. Use when reviewing a contract before signing, preparing for a negotiation, or responding to unfavorable terms. Trigger with "/negotiate" or "generate counter-proposals for this contract".

allowed-tools

Read, Glob, Grep

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code

version

1.1.0

author

Intent Solutions <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

license

MIT

tags

legal, negotiation, contracts, counter-proposal

# Negotiation Strategy: {Contract Name}

## Summary
- Contract: {name}
- Parties: {Party A} / {Party B}
- Representing: {which party}
- Date analyzed: {date}
- Clauses flagged: {count} ({MUST}: N, {SHOULD}: N, {NICE}: N)

## Risk Overview
{2-3 sentence executive summary of overall contract fairness}

## MUST-CHANGE Clauses
### 1. {Section Reference} — {Short Description}
**Original:** > {quoted text}
**Risk:** {plain English explanation}
**Counter-Proposal:** {replacement language}
**Confidence:** {HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW}
**Talking Points:**
- {point 1}
- {point 2}

## SHOULD-CHANGE Clauses
{same format}

## NICE-TO-CHANGE Clauses
{same format}

## Negotiation Email Draft
{professional email template}

## Benchmarks Referenced
- CommonPaper Standard Cloud Agreement (CC BY 4.0)
- {other relevant standards}

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/.curated/negotiate of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287