Claude Legal Skill (Contract Review)
Automates first-pass contract review. Generates lawyer-ready redlines with position-aware analysis (customer vs vendor perspective), not just vague suggestions.
Contract review skill grounded in the CUAD dataset (41 legal risk categories from 510 real contracts). Position-aware analysis - tell it whether you are customer, vendor, buyer, or receiving party and it adjusts what it flags - plus market-standard benchmarks, negotiability ratings, jurisdiction checks, and specific replacement redline language output as structured JSON. Pair with the companion legal-redline-tools package to produce tracked-changes Word docs and redline PDFs.
- Run a 41-category risk analysis on any contract
- Generate tracked-changes redlines from the customer or vendor perspective
- Benchmark contract terms against market standards
Automates first-pass contract review. Generates lawyer-ready redlines with position-aware analysis (customer vs vendor perspective), not just vague suggestions.
Legal teams and consultants doing contract review who want AI-assisted first-pass analysis with actual redline output.
https://github.com/evolsb/claude-legal-skill
By Chris Sheehan
How to Get It
git clone https://github.com/evolsb/claude-legal-skill ~/.claude/skills/contract-review
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After installing, paste this into Claude:
Help me run a 41-category risk analysis on any contract
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Reviewer notes
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catalog_hygiene stale-eval refresh: Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 363 GitHub stars; 1 contributors; last commit 140d ago; license MIT.
Things to check
- The skill itself outputs structured JSON redlines; lawyer-ready tracked-changes Word/PDF files require the separate legal-redline-tools Python package. First-pass review aid, not legal advice. Works with any Agent Skills-compatible tool (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and others) by cloning into that tool's skills directory.
- Single maintainer. Consider the risk if this person stops maintaining the project.
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Evaluation
catalog_hygiene stale-eval refresh: Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 363 GitHub stars; 1 contributors; last commit 140d ago; license MIT.
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