Hire an AI contract clause and ownership reviewer

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• A clause-by-clause review with each gap rated, and suggested edits with fallbacks
• A check of who owns the work, what each side may use and who pays if it goes wrong
• A two-minute plain summary that says if you can sign and what the catch is
• A list of questions and flagged clauses for your lawyer

How it does the job well

• Name the asset, the threat and the impact before recommending controls.
• Rank findings by real risk (likelihood and impact), with evidence for each.
• Prefer fixes that remove a problem over warnings that rely on people.
• Cite the exact law, standard or clause for compliance and legal points, and recommend qualified review.

Mistakes it avoids

• Long lists of generic issues with no evidence they apply.
• Testing or scanning systems without permission.
• Presenting a legal opinion as final.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You were sent a contract and the deadline is a week or more away. If it is only days away, go to a lawyer now and use this to prepare your questions.

• Step 1: Contract review. Contract type, clauses ranked by risk, suggested edits with fallbacks and the points to raise first.
• Step 2: IP check. Who owns what, licence scope, warranties, indemnities, clashes between clauses and a risk ranking.
• Step 3: Plain summary. Two short paragraphs saying if you can sign, what the catch is and what to do first.
• Pause for a lawyer. A reminder to take the summary, edits and flagged clauses to a qualified lawyer before signing.
• Hand-back summary. Each step's file and one list of every MISSING line.

How the work is checked

• Every flagged clause quotes or points to the exact place in the contract.
• Each suggested edit has wording you could paste, plus a fallback.
• The IP step says who owns the work in plain terms, and flags any gap in who gets it.
• The summary has no legal terms and says clearly whether to sign.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

Capabilities

• Review the contract clause by clause. Reads the whole contract, compares each clause with your rules or common market terms, rates each gap and suggests an edit with a fallback.
• Check the IP clauses. Takes the reviewed contract and looks at ownership, assignment, licence scope, warranties and indemnities, then checks that they do not clash with each other.
• Write a plain summary. Turns the review into two short paragraphs for the person who signs, with what they must do before signing.
• Pause for a lawyer. Take the summary, the edits and the flagged clauses to a qualified lawyer before you sign. Nothing here replaces that check.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id review-a-contract-and-get-edits-and-a-plain-summary only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/review-a-contract-and-get-edits-and-a-plain-summary/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• The contract, as a file or pasted text
• Which side you are on, such as buyer, seller or partner
• Your deadline and the points that worry you
• Your usual rules for contracts, if you have them (optional)

Functions and deliverables

• Contract clause and ownership reviewer: Share the contract, your role and review rules. Get clause risks, proposed edits, intellectual-property questions and a plain summary for your lawyer.
  • A clause-by-clause review with each gap rated, and suggested edits with fallbacks
  • A check of who owns the work, what each side may use and who pays if it goes wrong
  • A two-minute plain summary that says if you can sign and what the catch is
  • A list of questions and flagged clauses for your lawyer
• Contract reviewer: Share a contract, your side and deal context. Get material clauses checked against your playbook or an agreed general baseline.
  • A green, yellow or red rating for each clause
  • Suggested edits with the reason for each
  • A fallback position for each edit
  • A summary of what each gap means for the business
  • A negotiation order, with must-haves first
  Source: Anthropic.
• IP clause checker: Check the IP clauses in a contract for ownership gaps, licence limits and indemnity risks. Get findings ranked by risk. Not legal advice.
  • An assignment gap check
  • Clause-by-clause findings by risk level
  • Cross-clause consistency flags
  • A note on local legal differences
  • Questions for a lawyer
  Source: Anthropic.
• Contract summary writer: Give it a reviewed contract. Get a two-minute summary of what to know before signing. A first check, not legal advice.
  • A two-minute plain summary
  • Problems listed first
  • Key dates, costs and duties
  • Questions to ask a lawyer
  Source: Anthropic.
• me.md builder: Answer a few questions, or let your AI use what it remembers. Get one private file that tells any AI who you are.
  • One me.md file with up to ten dated sections
  • A list of facts taken from memory, for you to check
  • A short note of what it removed for privacy
  • The two next steps, to save it and set it up

Tasks you can use it for

• You were sent a contract and the deadline is a week or more away. If it is only days away, go to a lawyer now and use this to prepare your questions.
• You want to know which clauses to push back on before you talk to the other side.
• Someone else must approve the deal and needs a short summary, not 30 pages.

Limits to check before starting

• You have a large, unusual or cross-border deal: see a qualified lawyer first, then use this to prepare your questions.
• You only need to know if an AI vendor's terms are safe: use the AI vendor terms checker.
• You need legal advice or a final sign-off: ask a qualified lawyer, because this is only a first check.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.
• Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md". Claude Code and Claude Projects may need a paid Claude plan, so check yours. Another AI that reads files works too.
• Paste the contract and say which side you are on. Add any rules you always use.
• When it finishes, take the summary and the flagged clauses to a qualified lawyer before you sign.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/review-a-contract-and-get-edits-and-a-plain-summary for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.