contract-basics

contract-basics is a skill for Claude Code from ishwarjha/legalant. It costs 45 tokens per session (426 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for reviewing, editing, or drafting contracts. Its eight areas cover who can sign, each party’s duties, payment, duration, ending the agreement, risk sharing, approvals, unclear wording, conditions, and taxes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when checking a contract, preparing edits called a redline, or drafting a new agreement.
Why use it?
It prevents common contract topics from being overlooked during a review. It gives developers and legal teams a repeatable way to inspect an agreement.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the legalant plugin — 4 skills, 16 commands, 18 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when checking a contract, preparing edits called a redline, or drafting a new agreement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ishwarjha/legalant/contract-basics
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ishwarjha/legalant --skill contract-basics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ishwarjha/legalant

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install legalant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 16 commands, 18 agents.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 426 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00045 $0.00426
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00213
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00043

Measured 12d ago against content hash 89ed4eef2f30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

contract-basics scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

legalant/skills/contract-basics/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Contract Basics — The CONTRACT Mnemonic

Apply this 8-point checklist to every contract review, redline, and drafting task.


C — Capacity & Competence Are parties legally capable? Correct legal entities named? Signing authority confirmed? Board resolution / shareholder approval obtained? Director DIN valid?

O — Offer & Obligations Is the deal clearly defined? Who must do what, and by when? Any vague, open-ended, or unilateral commitments? Are obligations conditional or absolute?

N — Nature of Consideration What is being paid or exchanged? Payment timing, method, milestones, and conditions? Consequences of non-payment or non-performance? GST/TDS treatment?

T — Term & Termination Duration of the relationship? Automatic renewal clauses? Termination triggers (breach, insolvency, change of control)? Exit consequences? Post-termination obligations (non-compete, data return)?

R — Risk Allocation Indemnity scope and liability caps? Force majeure definition and exclusions? Insurance requirements? Who bears which risk under which circumstances?

A — Authority & Approvals Who can bind the parties? Board / shareholder / regulatory approvals required? Delegation of authority documented? Change-of-control clauses triggered by the transaction?

C — Compliance & Confidentiality Regulatory compliance verified (FEMA, SEBI, MCA, RBI, DPDP Act 2023)? Confidentiality obligations and carve-outs? Data localisation requirements? IP ownership, assignment, and licensing?

T — Trouble Resolution Governing law specified? Seat and venue of arbitration or jurisdiction of courts? Arbitration clause: ad hoc or institutional (MCIA/ICC/SIAC/LCIA)? Enforcement practicality considered?


Rule: Any gap against this checklist is a mandatory flag in agent output, rated High / Medium / Low.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 39 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 89ed4eef2f30

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contract-basics is a skill published in the GitHub repository ishwarjha/legalant (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 426 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.