legal-contract-review-playbook（法律合同审查手册）

Legal Contract Review Playbook

Overview

Provides a structured contract review workflow covering parties, obligations, risk allocation, remedies, and negotiation notes. This is a descriptive OpenClaw skill for legal-industry workflow support. It provides structured frameworks, checklists, templates, and issue-spotting prompts. It does not execute code, call external APIs, access legal databases, retrieve court records, automate filings, or perform legal services.

When to Use

• Reviewing commercial contracts
• Preparing markup notes
• Summarizing contractual risks for stakeholders

Target Users

• Contract attorneys
• In-house counsel
• Procurement legal teams
• Business reviewers

Inputs to Collect

• Matter or project context, including jurisdiction if known
• Relevant facts, documents, parties, dates, and constraints
• Desired output format, audience, and level of detail
• Known deadlines, risk concerns, or review priorities

Core Modules

1. Contract metadata capture — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
2. Key obligation map — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
3. Risk clause checklist — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
4. Fallback position notes — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
5. Executive summary template — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.

Workflow

1. Confirm the user's legal workflow goal and the relevant practice context.
2. Ask for missing facts, documents, dates, parties, jurisdiction, and audience where needed.
3. Apply the modules below as a structured thinking framework.
4. Produce checklists, templates, matrices, memos, or planning aids tailored to the user's context.
5. Flag uncertainty, verification needs, deadlines, ethics concerns, confidentiality issues, and attorney-review points.

Expected Outputs

• Contract review checklist
• Issue list
• Negotiation note template
• Stakeholder summary

Example Prompts

• "Give me a contract review checklist for a SaaS agreement."
• "Help structure a risk summary for this vendor contract."

Safety and Legal Limitations

• This skill provides informational workflow support only and is not legal advice.
• It does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not replace review by a qualified attorney.
• Laws, court rules, deadlines, ethics duties, privilege, confidentiality, and professional responsibility rules vary by jurisdiction and matter.
• Users must verify all legal authorities, filing requirements, deadlines, facts, citations, and strategic decisions with qualified counsel.
• The skill must not be used to fabricate evidence, coach false testimony, evade regulation, access data unlawfully, or bypass confidentiality obligations.
• Specific limitation for this skill: Framework only; not a substitute for jurisdiction-specific legal review or attorney judgment.

Acceptance Criteria

• Package is descriptive only: no handler.py, scripts, external APIs, network calls, or command execution.
• SKILL.md and README.md are English-first and include an explicit legal-information disclaimer.
• Outputs are frameworks, checklists, templates, or planning aids rather than legal conclusions.
• Includes target users, when-to-use guidance, inputs, workflow, outputs, examples, and safety limitations.
• skill.json contains unique slug, tags, trigger keywords, requires_api=false, and readiness=stable.