nda-review

Reference: fast triage of inbound NDAs into GREEN / YELLOW / RED so the team only spends lawyer time on the ones that need it. Built for sales and BD to self-serve before pinging legal. Loaded by /commercial-legal:review when an NDA is detected.

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Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A highly actionable, well-gated legal triage workflow with concrete templates and checklists. Its main weaknesses are token inefficiency from the repeated long config path and a monolithic structure with no progressive disclosure into bundle files.

Suggestions

Define the recurring CLAUDE.md path once (e.g., as a short alias or variable) and refer to it thereafter, instead of repeating the full path ~20 times.

Split the detailed check reference and/or the GREEN/YELLOW/RED output templates into separate reference files linked one level deep from SKILL.md to improve progressive disclosure.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is substantive (no condescending explanation of basic legal concepts), but it is padded by the full path ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md repeated ~20 times and some wordy justifying prose that could be tightened.	2 / 3
Actionability	Guidance is concrete and copy-paste ready: full GREEN/YELLOW/RED output templates with exact fields, an enumerated five-carveout checklist, and a verbatim one-way-NDA questionnaire with numbered questions.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The flow is clearly sequenced (matter context → destination check → side determination → scope check → triage) with explicit gates such as the attorney-reviewed-playbook check before GREEN and the "do not proceed without an explicit yes" signature gate, plus a feedback loop when the playbook is silent.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Sections are well-organized with headers, but the skill ships no bundle files and is a ~300-line monolithic document; material like the detailed check reference and the three output templates could live in separate one-level-deep files.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A focused, distinct description that clearly answers what it does and when it activates, with a concrete triage action. It is held back from the top by listing only one action and by thin trigger-term coverage.

Suggestions

Add common trigger-term variations such as "non-disclosure agreement" or "confidentiality agreement" alongside "NDA".

Name one or two more concrete actions (e.g., "flags non-NDA provisions, generates a triage memo") to broaden the specificity beyond a single triage step.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	The description names a concrete action ("fast triage of inbound NDAs into GREEN / YELLOW / RED") and the domain, but it lists a single triage action rather than the multiple concrete actions the top anchor expects.	2 / 3
Completeness	It states what the skill does ("fast triage of inbound NDAs into GREEN / YELLOW / RED") and gives an explicit trigger ("Loaded by /commercial-legal:review when an NDA is detected"), answering both what and when.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	"NDA" is a natural keyword a user would say ("inbound NDAs", "when an NDA is detected"), but coverage is thin — common variations like "non-disclosure agreement" or "confidentiality agreement" are absent.	2 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	"fast triage of inbound NDAs into GREEN / YELLOW / RED" with an NDA-detection trigger carves a clear niche that is unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.	3 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: anthropics/claude-for-legal
Path: commercial-legal/skills/nda-review/SKILL.md
Commit: 4a6c651

Reviewed: 6 days ago

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