# dpa-review

Reviews a Data Processing Agreement against your playbook, detects whether you are processor or controller, and returns a memo with redlines.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 677 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/privacy-legal/skills/dpa-review/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/dpa-review

## What it does

The skill walks a DPA term by term. It first loads the playbook from `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/privacy-legal/CLAUDE.md`. If placeholders are still there, it stops and asks for setup.

Then it works out the direction. When a customer sends their DPA, you are the processor defending operational flexibility. When you send one to a vendor, you are the controller protecting your customers' data. Ambiguous? It asks. Get this wrong and every recommendation inverts, so the step matters.

Before the walk, it checks the outputs folder for earlier work on the same counterparty: triage results, PIA outputs, past DPA reviews. Anything found gets cited, and severity from upstream carries over as a floor. A separate pass asks whether the data touches federally regulated categories — GLBA, HIPAA, FERPA, COPPA — because a GDPR-complete DPA can still miss those. The review assumes the jurisdiction set in your configuration; a different one may not apply as written. Output is a review memo with redlines, saved per house style.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --path privacy-legal/skills/dpa-review
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill dpa-review -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/privacy-legal/skills/dpa-review/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- review a customer DPA without giving away operational flexibility
- check a vendor DPA and protect customer data
- decide whether you are processor or controller
- test a DPA against what the privacy policy promises
- catch a missing BAA or GLBA carve-out in a sector deal

## Example prompts
- /privacy-legal:dpa-review customer-dpa.pdf
- review this DPA: vendor-dpa.docx
- customer sent their DPA, is it okay

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

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````text
---
name: dpa-review
description: >
  Review a Data Processing Agreement against your DPA playbook — auto-detects
  whether you're processor or controller and applies the right half of the playbook.
  Use when the user says "review this DPA", "check this data processing addendum",
  "customer sent their DPA", "is this DPA okay", or attaches a DPA.
argument-hint: "[file | Drive link | paste text]"
---

# /dpa-review

1. Load `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/privacy-legal/CLAUDE.md` → DPA playbook. If placeholders, stop and prompt setup.
2. Get the DPA. Determine direction: are we processor (customer's DPA) or controller (vendor's)? Ask if ambiguous.
3. Run the workflow below — term-by-term against the appropriate playbook row.
4. Run privacy policy consistency check.
5. Output: review memo with redlines. Save per house style.

```
/privacy-legal:dpa-review customer-dpa.pdf
```

---

# DPA Review

## 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 `/privacy-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/privacy-legal/matters/<matter-slug>/`. Never read another matter's files unless `Cross-matter context` is `on`.

---

## Purpose

DPAs come in two flavors and the review is nearly opposite for each. When a customer sends their DPA, we're defending our operational flexibility. When we send one to a vendor, we're protecting our (and our customers') data. Both reviews read from the same `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/privacy-legal/CLAUDE.md` playbook but from opposite rows.

## First: which direction?

Before anything else, establish:

- **We are the processor** → customer is sending us their DPA → read `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/privacy-legal/CLAUDE.md` → "When we are the processor" table
- **We are the controller** → we're sending a DPA to a vendor (or reviewing theirs) → read "When we are the controller" table

If unclear, ask. Getting this wrong inverts every recommendation.

## Jurisdiction assumption
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