# nda-review

Classifies inbound NDAs as GREEN, YELLOW, or RED using your team’s positions. Use it before routing an agreement for legal review or signature.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 693 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/nda-review/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/nda-review

## What it does

The skill loads through `/commercial-legal:review` when an NDA is detected. It identifies the deal side, reads the matching NDA triage positions from the team configuration, then assigns GREEN, YELLOW, or RED. A GREEN outcome requires attorney-reviewed positions.

It also checks whether a document labelled as an NDA contains broader obligations, such as a licence grant, exclusivity, non-solicit, IP assignment, or arbitration clause. Those terms trigger YELLOW and attorney review. That matters because an NDA title alone is not enough to route a document for signature.

When matter workspaces are enabled, the skill uses the active matter and writes its output to that matter’s folder. Before producing work product, it checks whether a named destination is inside the privilege circle.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- classify an NDA as GREEN, YELLOW, or RED
- spot licence grants hidden in an NDA
- compare agreement terms with team positions
- check recipients for privilege risk

## Example prompts
- Run `/commercial-legal:review` for this NDA.
- Review the attached NDA with `/commercial-legal:review`.
- Triage this NDA under our team playbook using `/commercial-legal:review`.

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

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---
name: nda-review
description: >
  Reference: fast triage of inbound NDAs into GREEN / YELLOW / RED so the team only
  spends lawyer time on the ones that need it. Built for sales and BD to self-serve
  before pinging legal. Loaded by /commercial-legal:review when an NDA is detected.
user-invocable: false
---

# NDA 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 `/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`.

---

## Destination check

Before producing output, check where it's going. If the user has named a destination (a channel, a distribution list, a counterparty, "everyone"), ask whether it's inside the privilege circle. Public channels, company-wide lists, counterparty/opposing counsel, vendors, and clients (for work product) waive the protection. When the destination looks outside the circle, flag it and offer (a) the privileged version for legal only, (b) a sanitized version for the broader channel, or (c) both — don't silently apply a privileged header and then help paste it somewhere the header won't protect it. See the canonical `## Shared guardrails → Destination check` in this plugin's CLAUDE.md.

## Purpose

Most inbound NDAs are fine. A few have landmines. This skill sorts them in under a minute so legal only reads the ones that matter.

**The goal:** a GREEN NDA should need nothing more than a signature. A YELLOW needs a lawyer's eyes on one or two specific things. A RED stops before anyone wastes time.

## Load the playbook first

**Which side?** Before applying the playbook, determine which side the company is on for this NDA. Usually obvious from the context: if the counterparty is a vendor or partner evaluating your product, you're sales-side; if you're evaluating theirs, you're purchasing-side. Mutual NDAs still have a side — whose paper is it, and which direction is the evaluation running. If it's not obvious, ask. Read the matching playbook section (`### Sales-side playbook` or `### Purchasing-side playbook`) from the config. Note which side in the output so the reviewer knows which playbook was applied. If the matching side is `[Not configured]`, stop and tell the user to run `/commercial-legal:cold-start-interview --side <side>` before this triage can proceed.
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