# Contract review (/legal--contract-review)

/legal--contract-review is a Claude Code skill in the Business section. Reviews a contract draft from your side of the table and returns risky clauses, missing terms and one-sided obligations.

- Web version: https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/s/legal--contract-review
- Section: [Business](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/business.md)
- Author: Santiago Gómez de la Torre
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/blob/main/skills/legal/contract-review.md
- Updated 10 Jul 2026

## Use it when

- You have a contract draft before signing it or sending it to counsel
- You want to know which clauses hurt you and what is missing
- You need a prioritized list of points to negotiate

## Not for

- Replacing the advice of a lawyer
- Contracts you cannot share as readable text or a document

## What you get

A Markdown report with a sign, negotiate or walk-away summary, findings by severity with quote and redline, an obligations table and a negotiation list.

## How to ask for it

- `/legal--contract-review vendor-contract.pdf, I'm the client`
- `/legal--contract-review review this NDA, I'm the receiving party`
- `/legal--contract-review lease-agreement.docx, flag one-sided clauses`

## Install

macOS · Linux:

```
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.sh | bash
```

Windows:

```
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.ps1 | iex
```

Claude Code plugin:

```
/plugin marketplace add sgomez-dev/claude-skills
/plugin install legal-skills@claude-skills-collection
```

## Permissions

- Reads: `**/*.md`, `**/*.txt`, `**/*.pdf`, `**/*.docx`, `**/*.rtf`
- Writes: `legal/**`
- Runs: —
- Network: No
- Destructive: No

## Author's description

Review a contract draft - flag risky clauses, missing terms, one-sided duties

## Questions about this skill

### Does it need to know which side I am on?

Yes. It asks whether you are customer or vendor, licensor or licensee and so on, because the risk of each clause flips with the side.

### Does it replace a lawyer?

No. It is a structured second read before counsel and is not legal advice.

### What contract formats can it read?

A file path or pasted text. It can read md, txt, pdf, docx and rtf files.


- [How we review this](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/methodology.md)