Today's Agent Skill: NDA and Vendor Contract Reviewer
What It Does
Most small businesses sign vendor contracts and NDAs without the budget for a lawyer to review every one — which means risky clauses slip through unnoticed. This skill scans a contract or NDA for the most common red-flag provisions and surfaces issues your business should understand before signing.
How It Works
The agent reads the contract text and checks for a predefined list of high-risk clauses: automatic renewal traps, unlimited liability, non-compete or exclusivity terms, unilateral amendment rights, and IP assignment overreach. It outputs a plain-English summary of what each flagged clause means and why it may warrant negotiation or legal review.
How to Deploy It
Add the SKILL.md to your agent's skills folder, then paste or upload a contract and trigger the review. Works with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and Windsurf. For ongoing vendor management, build a library of your standard contract templates and use this skill to compare new versions against them.
SKILL.md — Ready to Deploy
## Description
Review a vendor contract or NDA for common high-risk clauses and produce a plain-English summary of potential issues the business owner should understand before signing.
## Trigger
User pastes or uploads a contract, NDA, or vendor agreement and asks for a review, red flags, or plain-language summary.
## Input
- contract_text: Full text of the contract or NDA
- business_type: Brief description of the user's business (to contextualize IP or non-compete concerns)
- specific_concerns: Optional — specific clauses or topics to focus the review on
## Steps
1. Parse the full contract and identify all numbered or lettered sections.
2. Check each section against this red-flag list: automatic renewal clauses, termination fees or lock-in periods over 12 months, unlimited or uncapped liability, unilateral amendment rights where the vendor can change terms without notice, broad IP assignment that captures work created outside the engagement, non-compete or exclusivity terms affecting the owner's other business activities, governing law requiring disputes to be resolved in a distant state, and arbitration clauses that waive the right to jury trial.
3. For each flag found, write Copy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.