Claude Legal Skill

Claude Legal Skill is an open source contract review skill published on GitHub by Chris Sheehan. Installed into an AI coding assistant, it turns the assistant into a contract reviewer: it reads an agreement, produces a risk assessment with severity ratings, identifies red flags such as uncapped indemnification or perpetual obligations, extracts key terms, benchmarks provisions against market standards and suggests specific redlines. A companion package converts the review into Word documents and PDFs with tracked changes that a lawyer can work from directly. It is aimed at founders, operators and in house teams who review NDAs, SaaS agreements, payment agreements and M&A documents and want a structured first pass before counsel is involved. Reviews are position aware, so the guidance changes depending on which side of the deal you sit on, and each contract type has its own checklist. Negotiability ratings indicate which terms are realistically changeable, and the skill flags missing clauses and internal inconsistencies. It follows the Agent Skills standard, so it works with Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI and other compatible tools. There is no pricing. The skill is released under the MIT license and installed by cloning the repository into the assistant's skills directory; the only cost is the subscription or API usage of the assistant that runs it. This is a single developer project rather than a company product, and its output is a starting point for legal review, not a substitute for it.