# Contract Review
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Review commercial agreements against your playbook — without uploading a single page.

Commercial contracts contain dozens of negotiated positions. Legalcode's contract review skill evaluates agreements against market standard positions or a custom playbook, surfacing deviations, missing provisions, and jurisdiction-specific risks with clause-level precision.

## How It Works

1. **Load the contract and playbook locally** -- Open the agreement in your AI agent's workspace alongside your playbook or standard positions from your local files. Documents stay on your machine — the agent queries Legalcode only for the applicable legal standards.

2. **Agent reads the contract structure** -- The skill identifies contract type, governing law, and party roles before running the structured review checklist.

3. **Deviations are flagged clause by clause** -- Each provision is compared against the applicable standard. Non-standard language is flagged with the clause reference, the deviation, and suggested market-standard language.

4. **Summary report generated** -- A summary report ranks issues by severity and includes a negotiation priority list — ready to paste into a cover email or hand to a client.

## Outputs

- Contract type and structure identification
- Clause-by-clause deviation report against playbook or market standard
- Negotiation priority list (high / medium / low)
- Missing provisions checklist
- Jurisdiction-specific compliance flags
- Suggested redline language

## Jurisdictions

US, UK, EU, AU, CA, SG, IE, NL, DE, FR

## FAQ

### Can I use my own playbook without uploading it to a cloud service?

Yes — that's the point. Your playbook stays on your local machine. The AI agent reads it from your filesystem alongside the contract under review. Legalcode never sees your proprietary positions — it provides only the legal standards and jurisdiction-specific rules.

### What contract types are supported?

The skill covers MSAs, SaaS agreements, supply contracts, distribution agreements, IP licensing, service agreements, and construction contracts. Specialist contract types like ISDA master agreements are supported via dedicated skills.

### How does the skill handle cross-border contracts?

When a contract spans jurisdictions, the skill applies the governing law clause as the primary lens and flags any provisions that may conflict with mandatory rules in the counterparty's jurisdiction.

### Can I combine this with my other local review tools?

Yes. Because Legalcode runs inside your local AI agent, you can combine it with any other data source, tool, or file on your machine — your document management system, email threads, precedent banks, and comparison tools — all in one session.

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