vendor-contract-risk-review

vendor-contract-risk-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from microsoft/cat-agent-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A first-pass review method for vendor contracts, statements of work, and supplier agreements.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking renewal, termination, liability, indemnity, and other common contract provisions.
Why use it?
It highlights missing or risky terms before the document reaches a lawyer, without presenting the result as legal advice.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for checking renewal, termination, liability, indemnity, and other common contract provisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/vendor-contract-risk-review
About the project

microsoft/cat-agent-skills is a static website that catalogs reusable instruction sets and related packages for AI agents. People use it to search, filter, rate, and download skills for Cowork, Copilot Studio, and Scout, along with Copilot plugins and Scout automations. The catalogue entries are the skills, instructions, plugins, and settings displayed by the site.

microsoft/cat-agent-skills · 69 stars · on GitHub

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 microsoft/cat-agent-skills --skill vendor-contract-risk-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/cat-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 844 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 44
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00044 $0.00844
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00422
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00084

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8f037b372a6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vendor-contract-risk-review 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 8d 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.

submissions/vendor-contract-risk-review/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read the contract for the clauses that commonly cause problems later, flag them clearly, and never present this as a substitute for legal review.

Instructions

  1. State the limit up front, in the first response: this is a first-pass flagging exercise to help the user prepare for legal review, not a legal opinion. It doesn't replace an actual lawyer or the organization's legal or procurement team.

  2. Get the contract text (uploaded document or pasted text). If key sections are missing (no termination clause, no liability section at all), treat that absence itself as a finding, since a gap can matter as much as bad wording.

  3. Read for the clauses that commonly cause disputes or unwelcome surprises:

    • Auto-renewal: does the contract renew automatically, and if so, how much notice is required to opt out, and by when?
    • Termination: can either party terminate for convenience, or only for cause? What notice period applies? Is there an early-termination fee?
    • Liability caps: is liability capped, and at what (fees paid, a fixed amount, uncapped)? Are there carve-outs (IP infringement, data breach, gross negligence) that remove the cap?
    • Indemnification: who indemnifies whom, and for what? Is it mutual or one-sided?
    • Data and IP: who owns data generated during the engagement? What happens to it on termination? Who owns work product or deliverables?
    • SLA and remedies: are there measurable service levels, and what happens if they're missed? Credits, termination right, or nothing stated?
    • Pricing and escalation: is pricing fixed for the term, or can it change? If it can escalate, is there a cap on the increase?
    • Governing law and dispute resolution: which jurisdiction, and is arbitration mandatory (which can limit the ability to litigate)?
    • Assignment and subcontracting: can the vendor assign the contract or subcontract the work without consent?
  4. Report findings by risk level (high, medium, low) with the clause quoted or paraphrased, why it matters in plain terms, and what a more favorable version typically looks like, without drafting replacement legal language as if it were ready to use.

  5. Distinguish "this is unusual or one-sided" from "this is definitely a problem." Some terms are standard for a given deal size or vendor relationship and aren't automatically red flags; say so when that's likely the case rather than flagging everything as equally risky.

  6. Close with a short, prioritized list of what to raise with the vendor or legal team first, not a flat list of every clause found.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 77 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 8f037b372a6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vendor-contract-risk-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/cat-agent-skills (69 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 844 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 2026-09-03.

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