Legal Clause Risk Spotter

Guides legal professionals in identifying risk patterns in key contract clauses with checklists, issue prompts, and escalation criteria for review support.

Security Scan

This is a document-only, descriptive skill whose requirements and runtime instructions match its stated purpose and do not request credentials, installs, or external network actions.

Purpose & Capability

Name, description, and metadata all describe a descriptive legal-workflow helper. The package requests no binaries, env vars, installs, or APIs — which is proportionate for a text-based checklist/issue-spotting tool.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md contains only guidance for prompting, collecting user-provided context, and producing checklists/templates. It explicitly forbids code execution and external API/database access. Note: it expects users may paste facts/documents (which can be sensitive); that is expected for the use case but is a confidentiality consideration rather than an incoherence.

Install Mechanism

There is no install spec and no code files; nothing is written to disk or fetched at install time, which aligns with the descriptive-only claim in ACCEPTANCE.md and SKILL.md.

Credentials

No credentials, environment variables, or config paths are requested. This is appropriate for a purely informational skill and reduces risk of credential exposure.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and the skill is user-invocable; disable-model-invocation is false (normal default). There is no indication this skill attempts to persist or modify other skills or system settings.

Assessment

This skill is descriptive-only and internally consistent, but it may prompt you to supply case facts or contract text. Do not paste privileged, confidential, or personally identifiable information unless you are comfortable with how those inputs will be stored and processed by your agent environment. Treat outputs as workflow aids — verify all legal conclusions with qualified counsel before relying on them. If you need stronger data protection, run the skill in a controlled environment, redact sensitive details before pasting, and confirm your agent's logging/retention policies.

Overview

Guides reviewers through identifying common risk patterns in clauses such as indemnity, liability, termination, IP, confidentiality, and governing law. This is a descriptive OpenClaw skill for legal-industry workflow support. It provides structured frameworks, checklists, templates, and issue-spotting prompts. It does not execute code, call external APIs, access legal databases, retrieve court records, automate filings, or perform legal services.

When to Use

• Screening a draft agreement for risk
• Training junior reviewers
• Preparing a clause issue list

Target Users

• Lawyers
• Contract managers
• Legal operations professionals

Inputs to Collect

• Matter or project context, including jurisdiction if known
• Relevant facts, documents, parties, dates, and constraints
• Desired output format, audience, and level of detail
• Known deadlines, risk concerns, or review priorities

Core Modules

1. High-risk clause taxonomy — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
2. Clause-by-clause issue prompts — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
3. Business impact notes — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
4. Fallback language considerations — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
5. Escalation criteria — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.

Workflow

1. Confirm the user's legal workflow goal and the relevant practice context.
2. Ask for missing facts, documents, dates, parties, jurisdiction, and audience where needed.
3. Apply the modules below as a structured thinking framework.
4. Produce checklists, templates, matrices, memos, or planning aids tailored to the user's context.
5. Flag uncertainty, verification needs, deadlines, ethics concerns, confidentiality issues, and attorney-review points.

Expected Outputs

• Clause risk checklist
• Issue spotting matrix
• Escalation notes

Example Prompts

• "Spot risks I should check in an indemnity clause."
• "Create a clause risk checklist for a master services agreement."

Safety and Legal Limitations

• This skill provides informational workflow support only and is not legal advice.
• It does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not replace review by a qualified attorney.
• Laws, court rules, deadlines, ethics duties, privilege, confidentiality, and professional responsibility rules vary by jurisdiction and matter.
• Users must verify all legal authorities, filing requirements, deadlines, facts, citations, and strategic decisions with qualified counsel.
• The skill must not be used to fabricate evidence, coach false testimony, evade regulation, access data unlawfully, or bypass confidentiality obligations.
• Specific limitation for this skill: Does not rewrite binding legal terms automatically; suggested considerations require attorney review.

Acceptance Criteria

• Package is descriptive only: no handler.py, scripts, external APIs, network calls, or command execution.
• SKILL.md and README.md are English-first and include an explicit legal-information disclaimer.
• Outputs are frameworks, checklists, templates, or planning aids rather than legal conclusions.
• Includes target users, when-to-use guidance, inputs, workflow, outputs, examples, and safety limitations.
• skill.json contains unique slug, tags, trigger keywords, requires_api=false, and readiness=stable.