legal-due-diligence

legal-due-diligence is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from open-octo/octo-agent. It costs 155 tokens per session (3,533 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A legal review aid for examining a batch of transaction or due-diligence documents in a consistent format. Due diligence is the process of checking documents and risks before a deal or other important decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract the same fields from multiple contracts, scan a document set for issues, and mark matters that need human verification.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to compare many documents and find potential issues, while requiring each finding to be supported by an exact quotation and location in the source.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to extract the same fields from multiple contracts, scan a document set for issues, and mark matters that need human verification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/open-octo/octo-agent/legal-due-diligence
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 open-octo/octo-agent --skill legal-due-diligence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-octo/octo-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,533 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00155 $0.03533
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01767
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00707
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00353

Measured 8d ago against content hash 32aaf35cffcb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legal-due-diligence 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.

internal/skills/experts/legal-due-diligence/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

面对一批文档(合同、公司档案、诉讼记录等)需要系统性审查时,有两种互补的做法:

  • 表格式(tabular):同样一组字段问遍每一份文档,产出一行一文档、一列一 字段的表格。适合"这 50 份合同里,变更控制条款分别怎么约定的"。
  • 问题提取式(issue extraction):按标准类别清单扫描,只把真正有问题的 文档挑出来写成发现清单。适合"这批材料里有没有埋雷"。

两者可以先后使用:先跑表格式摸清全貌,再对表格里标红/标黄的行做问题提取式深挖。

这不是替代人工阅读文档。 每一格/每一条结论都是"线索",需要人工核实,不是 "定论"。这个技能的目标是让核实变快,不是让核实变得可以跳过。

处理规模的现实约束

当前 profile 没有配置并行子代理(sub_agent),本技能按文档顺序逐份处理, 不做原始方法论里"每份文档一个并行子代理"的 fan-out。文档量较大(50+)时提前 告知用户这会比较耗时,并建议先用小样本(3-5 份)跑通字段定义再处理全量,避免 字段定义有问题却已经审完几十份文档。

逐字引用铁律

这是整个技能最重要的纪律,不是可选项:

每一条结论(不管是表格里的一个格,还是问题清单里的一条发现)必须配一段来自 原文、逐字复制的引用,以及能让人重新定位到原文的位置信息(章节号/条款号/页码, 文档给了什么就用什么)。

  • 不能把一个标题加常见样板文字拼成"引用"。
  • 不能改写后当作逐字引用。
  • 不能凭"这类条款通常怎么写"的印象复原一段引用。
  • 找不到原文、定位不到,就把这一条标记为"待核实"(见下面的三态规则),value 留空,并在备注里写清楚原因(文档截断、扫描件识别不清、条款隐含但没写明、 只看到标题没看到正文等)。绝不能为了让格子显得"已完成"而编一个引用。

这条纪律同样适用于所有字段类型的"配套原文引用",不只是"逐字类"字段本身—— 一个分类判断(比如"需经同意")如果配的引用是编的,比留空更危险,因为它看起来 更完整、更容易被直接采信。

三态"未找到"规则

一个空格子会掩盖信息。凡是给不出正面答案的情况,强制归入以下三种明确状态之一:

状态 含义 使用场景
未涉及 读过文档,确认没有这条约定 有把握该主题文档确实没提
不确定 文档里有相关内容,但无法确信地分类 措辞含糊、条款不完整、内容自相矛盾
待人工判断 找到了内容,但需要人判断怎么归类 边缘情形、罕见措辞、答案取决于字段定义没覆盖的判断

"合同对此完全没有约定"和"约定含糊看不清楚"是团队会用完全不同方式处理的两种 情况,压缩成一个空格子会丢失这个区别。

模式一:表格式提取

第一步:定义字段和范围

和用户确认:审哪些文档(本地文件/用户粘贴的文本)、要哪些字段、输出放哪里。

把用户的字段描述整理成结构化 schema,每个字段包含:一个稳定的 id、一个人类 可读的 名称、一个 类型、一个 提示词(一个真正在读文档的人会问的问题), 分类型字段还需要一个 选项列表:

类型 返回什么 用于
逐字 原文精确引用,一字不改 定义性术语、操作性条款原文、任何措辞本身很关键的地方
分类 从你预定义的固定选项里选一个 是/否、有/无、条款变体(如"需经同意"/"同意不得无理拒绝"/"未提及")
日期 ISO 日期 生效日、到期日、终止通知截止日
期限 数字+单位 合同期限、通知期、存续期
金额 数字+币种 责任上限、门槛、费用
数字 裸数字 数量、百分比、页码引用
自由文本 简短自由文本摘要 谨慎使用——这是最容易漂移的类型,其他类型确实不合适时才用

逐字引用规则同样适用于非"逐字"类型的字段:每个非逐字字段都要配一个"支持 原文"作为配套字段。格子里的答案是解读,配套引用是证据——一个写着"同意不得无 理拒绝"的分类结果,没有对应的原文句子支撑就没有意义,因为核实者的工作就是检 查这个解读对不对。

用小样本(3-5 份文档)先跑一遍,检查:某个字段是不是大部分答案都是"不确定" (说明提示词本身模糊,需要改写)、"分类"字段的答案是不是经常不落在预设选项里 (需要补充选项或改成自由文本)、"逐字"字段是不是经常返回的是改写而非原文(需要 在提示里再强调一次"必须逐字")。调整后再确认,避免整批跑完才发现字段定义有问题。

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 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 · 211 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A 32aaf35cffcb

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legal-due-diligence is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-octo/octo-agent (99 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 3,533 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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