# amendment-history

This skill compares a base agreement with its amendments, summarizing changes across the contract or tracing one provision to its current wording.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 610 installs · ★ 9795
- Author: anthropics · official Anthropic repository
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/HEAD/commercial-legal/skills/amendment-history/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/amendment-history

## What it does

amendment-history reads a base agreement and its amendments in chronological order. It can summarize changes across the contract or follow a named provision, such as payment terms or termination, through each version to find the wording that currently controls.

It determines document order from execution dates, titles, and references linking amendments to the original agreement. If the sequence is unclear or files may represent the same version, it asks for clarification. Provide the documents directly or paste their text. CLM and document-repository integrations are described as forthcoming, so this workflow relies on supplied documents.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill amendment-history -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/amendment-history/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/amendment-history/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill amendment-history -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/amendment-history/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill amendment-history -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/amendment-history/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install anthropics/claude-for-legal amendment-history
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/amendment-history/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill amendment-history -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --path commercial-legal/skills/amendment-history
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/amendment-history/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill amendment-history -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/HEAD/commercial-legal/skills/amendment-history/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- summarize changes across an agreement
- trace a clause to its current wording
- compare a base agreement with its amendments
- identify provisions added or deleted over time

## Example prompts
- Trace the liability terms across `agreement.pdf` and `amendment-1.pdf`.
- Summarize the changes in the agreement and all the amendments I uploaded.
- \`/commercial-legal:amendment-history --provision termination` — find the current termination language.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: amendment-history
description: >
  Trace how a contract has changed across its base agreement and all amendments —
  either a summary of all changes over time, or a provision trace for a specific
  clause. Use when the user says "what changed in this contract over time", "show
  me the amendment history", "where's the latest [clause]", "how has [provision]
  evolved", or uploads multiple versions of an agreement.
argument-hint: "[file(s) | [CLM ID (coming soon)] | [repository link (coming soon)]] [--provision <clause name>]"
---

# /amendment-history

Loads a base agreement and all amendments, then either summarizes what
changed over time or traces a specific provision to its current
controlling language.

## Instructions

1. **Get the documents:** From file upload, [CLM ID (coming soon)], or [repository link (coming soon)]. Accept multiple files in one invocation. If none
   provided, ask.

2. **Detect the mode** by parsing the request per the mode
   detection rules below. If a provision name is clearly stated, go straight
   to Mode 2. If no provision is mentioned, run Mode 1. Ask only if
   genuinely ambiguous.

3. **Run the workflow below.** Follow it fully.

4. **Offer follow-ups after output:**
   - "Want me to trace another provision?"
   - "Want a full playbook review of the current agreement as amended?"
     (routes to vendor-agreement-review)
   - "Want a stakeholder summary of the key changes?"
     (routes to stakeholder-summary)

## Examples

```
/commercial-legal:amendment-history acme-msa.pdf amendment-1.pdf amendment-2.pdf
```

```
/commercial-legal:amendment-history --provision indemnity
```

```
/commercial-legal:amendment-history
[paste agreement and amendment text]
```

---

## Matter context

**Matter context.** Check `## Matter workspaces` in the practice-level CLAUDE.md. If `Enabled` is `✗` (the default for in-house users), skip the rest of this paragraph — skills use practice-level context and the matter machinery is invisible. If enabled and there is no active matter, ask: "Which matter is this for? Run `/commercial-legal:matter-workspace switch <slug>` or say `practice-level`." Load the active matter's `matter.md` for matter-specific context and overrides. Write outputs to the matter folder at `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/matters/<matter-slug>/`. Never read another matter's files unless `Cross-matter context` is `on`.

---

## Purpose

Contracts accumulate amendments. By the third amendment, nobody remembers
what the original said or which version of a clause controls. This skill
reads the base agreement and all amendments in chronological order and
either summarizes what changed across the whole contract or traces a
specific provision through every version to find the current controlling
language.

## Mode detection

Parse the user's request to determine which mode to run. Do not ask
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