claude-for-legal

House cold-start interview (request list + prior memo), or --new-deal for deal-specific context. Modular: identifies which practice areas apply (M&A, Board & Secretary, Public Company, Entity Management), then asks targeted questions for each active module and writes only the relevant sections to the plugin config. Use on fresh install, when CLAUDE.md still has [PLACEHOLDER] markers, when starting a new deal, or to re-check integrations or refresh a module.

What's blocking close — maintain the closing checklist with status, critical path, and days to close. Self-updating: ingests new items from diligence findings and schedule builds, tracks status, surfaces what's blocking. Use when user says "closing checklist", "what's left to close", "checklist status", "add to the checklist", or on a scheduled status pull.

Drafts board or committee meeting minutes in your house format. Auto-detects upcoming board and committee meetings from your calendar, asks for the agenda and any slides or pre-read materials, and produces a complete draft in the format learned from your seed minutes. Also handles written consents in lieu of meetings. Trigger: "board minutes", "draft minutes", "upcoming board meeting", "committee minutes", "written consent", or calendar detection of an upcoming board or committee event.

Detects when Luminance, Kira, or a similar bulk-review tool is in use, hands off the high-volume clause extraction to it, and QAs its output per the trust level in `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/corporate-legal/CLAUDE.md`. Use when user says "send to Luminance", "bulk review", "AI extraction", or when diligence-issue-extraction hits a high-volume category.

Reference: review of an inbound vendor agreement against the team playbook in `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md`. Flags deviations, assesses risk, generates specific redline language, and routes to the right approver. Loaded by /commercial-legal:review when a vendor MSA, services agreement, or similar is detected.

Translates a contract review into a summary the business stakeholder will actually read. Not a legal memo — a two-minute answer to "can I sign this and what do I need to know." Use when user says "summarize for the business", "write this up for [stakeholder]", "explain this to procurement", "non-legal summary", or when a review is done and needs to go to someone outside legal.

Reference: review of SaaS subscription agreements with attention to the terms that matter most in subscription deals — auto-renewal mechanics, price escalation, data portability, uptime SLAs, and subprocessor rights. Loaded by /commercial-legal:review when a SaaS or subscription agreement is detected.

Review a vendor agreement, NDA, or SaaS subscription against your playbook. Identifies the agreement structure from titles, routes to the right review skill (vendor-agreement-review, nda-review, saas-msa-review), and integrates the output into a single memo. Use when the user says "review this contract", "check this MSA", "is this NDA okay", "look at this SaaS agreement", or attaches an inbound agreement for review.

Review and approve (or reject) pending playbook update proposals from the playbook-monitor agent and apply approved changes to the practice profile. Use when the playbook-monitor agent has surfaced proposals, when the user says "review playbook proposals", "what playbook updates are pending", or wants to step through deviation-driven playbook changes.

Show contracts with cancel-by deadlines coming up and warn before notice windows close, working from a maintained renewal register. Use when the user asks "what's renewing soon", "what renewals are due", "did we miss a cancellation window", "add this to the renewal tracker", or on a scheduled basis. Receives handoffs from saas-msa-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.

Manage matter workspaces — new, list, switch, close, or detach (practice-level). Use when a multi-client practitioner needs to create a matter, switch the active matter, list matters, archive a matter, or detach to practice-level context, or when another skill needs to know which matter it's working in.

Route a contract issue to the right approver per the escalation matrix in `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md`, and draft the ask. Use when the user says "who needs to approve this", "escalate this", "does this need GC sign-off", "route this for approval", or when another skill finds an issue that exceeds the reviewer's authority.

Guided customization of your commercial contracts practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust risk posture, escalation contacts, playbook positions, NDA triage preferences, house style, review preferences, or matter workspace paths. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "update my profile", "edit my playbook", "tune my config", or "customize".

Run the cold-start interview to learn your commercial contracts practice and write your team practice profile. Use on first use of the plugin, when `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md` is missing or still contains template placeholders, or when the user says "set up the plugin", "configure commercial contracts", "onboard me", or "let's get started". This is the only skill that should run on a fresh install.

Trace how a contract has changed across its base agreement and all amendments — either a summary of all changes over time, or a provision trace for a specific clause. Use when the user says "what changed in this contract over time", "show me the amendment history", "where's the latest [clause]", "how has [provision] evolved", or uploads multiple versions of an agreement.

Review vendor AI terms — agreement, addendum, or ToS AI provisions — against your governance positions; flag training-on-data, liability, model changes, and AI policy consistency. Use when user says "review this AI agreement", "check OpenAI terms", "what did we agree to with [vendor]", "vendor sent an AI addendum", "is this AI contract okay", or attaches vendor AI terms.

Classify a proposed AI use case against your registry — approved, conditional, or not approved — and produce required conditions and next steps. Flags cross-plugin handoffs to privacy or product counsel. Use when user says "triage this use case", "can we use AI for X", "is this approved", "what do we need to do to use AI for X".

Diff a new AI regulation or guidance against your current governance posture — surfaces gaps, priorities, and a remediation plan with owners and deadlines. Use when an AI regulation moves (or you learn about one you missed), or when user says "new reg just dropped", "does [regulation] affect us", "gap analysis for EU AI Act", "compliance check against [AI law or guidance]", or pastes regulatory text.

Draft a firm AI usage policy from published model policies, adapted to your practice profile — a research-and-synthesis tool whose output is a draft for attorney review and adoption, not a finished policy. Use when user says "draft an AI policy", "we need an AI policy", "build an AI usage policy", "our firm needs a GenAI policy", or similar requests to generate a first-cut internal AI policy.

Keep the AI policy current with practice — weekly sweep of saved AIAs, triage results, and vendor reviews to find policy drift, or direct query for a proposed new AI practice. Use when user says "policy sweep", "does our AI policy cover this", "we want to start doing X — does the policy need updating", "run the policy monitor", or on a recurring schedule.

Manage matter workspaces — new, list, switch, close, or detach (practice-level). File-management logic for keeping one client or engagement's context separate from every other. Use when working across multiple clients or matters, when the user says "new matter", "switch matter", "list matters", "close matter", or when any substantive skill needs to know which matter it's working in.

Guided customization of your AI governance practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust risk posture, escalation contacts, use-case registry entries, vendor AI positions, AI policy commitments, impact-assessment house style, or matter workspace paths. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "update my profile", "edit my config", "tune my playbook", or "customize".

Run the cold-start interview — learns your AI governance practice and writes `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md` from your AI policy, a reference impact assessment, and key vendor AI agreements. Use when the practice profile is missing or contains `[PLACEHOLDER]` markers, or when user says "set up ai governance plugin", "onboard me", "configure ai governance".

Run an AI impact assessment — structured intake, risk analysis, regulatory classification per regime in scope, policy consistency diff, and recommendation with conditions. Uses the house-style structure learned from the seed impact assessment in `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md`. Use when user says "impact assessment for", "assess this AI use case", "run an AIA", "generate an AIA", "we need to document this AI system", "AI risk assessment for X", or follows a conditional triage result.