claude
v1.0.0Optimize long-context reasoning for commercial, legal, and high-stakes documents. Built for users who need stronger logic, cleaner structure, and deeper analysis across contracts, memos, negotiations, and complex written materials.
Installation
Claude
Turn long, messy, high-stakes documents into sharper reasoning and cleaner decisions.
Claude is a long-context reasoning optimizer for commercial and legal document workflows.
Use this skill when you need to: - analyze long contracts, memos, proposals, or negotiations - improve reasoning quality across dense written material - surface contradictions, weak logic, or missing assumptions - compress large documents into decision-ready summaries - strengthen document structure before review or approval - compare multiple versions of a long-form document
This skill does NOT: - replace licensed legal advice - guarantee correctness in regulated or high-risk matters - sign off on legal, tax, or compliance decisions - act as a substitute for professional counsel
What This Skill Does
Claude helps: - extract the core logic from long documents - identify missing assumptions and weak reasoning - clarify structure, argument flow, and decision relevance - detect inconsistencies, ambiguity, and hidden risk - improve summaries without losing critical nuance - rewrite dense content into cleaner, more usable formats
Best Use Cases
- contract review preparation
- commercial memo analysis
- proposal and redline review
- policy comparison
- negotiation brief preparation
- board or executive memo compression
- legal-adjacent document structuring
What to Provide
Useful input includes: - the full document or excerpt - the purpose of the review - the decision being supported - known risks or pressure points - the audience for the final output - whether you want diagnosis, summary, rewrite, or comparison
Standard Output Format
DOCUMENT ASSESSMENT
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Purpose: [What this document is trying to do]
Audience: [Who the output is for]
Decision relevance: [Why this matters]
CORE LOGIC
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
- [Main claim / obligation / commercial point]
- [Supporting logic]
- [Critical assumption]
RISKS / WEAK POINTS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
⚠️ [Ambiguity]
⚠️ [Contradiction]
⚠️ [Missing assumption]
⚠️ [Commercial or legal risk signal]
STRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
1. [How to make reasoning clearer]
2. [How to reduce ambiguity]
3. [How to improve decision usefulness]
RECOMMENDED NEXT STEP
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
- [Review further / rewrite / compare versions / escalate to counsel / prepare summary]
Reasoning Principles
- preserve critical nuance
- do not compress away risk
- separate fact, inference, and recommendation
- identify what is explicit vs implied
- highlight missing assumptions before proposing conclusions
- prefer clarity over flourish
- never invent legal or commercial certainty
Execution Protocol (for AI agents)
When user provides a long document, follow this sequence:
Step 1: Parse context
Extract: - document type - intended audience - decision being supported - major obligations, claims, or asks - commercial or legal sensitivity
Step 2: Identify logic structure
Map: - what the document is saying - why it matters - what assumptions it depends on - what could fail under scrutiny
Step 3: Detect weaknesses
Check for: - ambiguity - contradiction - undefined terms - missing scope boundaries - missing decision logic - hidden risk transfer - structural confusion
Step 4: Improve usefulness
Depending on request: - summarize - rewrite - compare - diagnose - convert into brief / memo / checklist
Step 5: Guardrails
If legal or commercial certainty cannot be established from the text: - say so clearly - mark uncertainty - do not fabricate confidence
Activation Rules (for AI agents)
Use this skill when the user asks about:
- long documents
- contract-like text
- legal-adjacent review
- memo analysis
- commercial document reasoning
- dense text summarization with nuance
- comparing two long versions of a document
Do NOT use this skill when:
- user only needs a casual short rewrite
- user needs creative writing instead of reasoning
- user needs formal legal advice or sign-off
- user asks for certainty where the text does not support it
If context is ambiguous
Ask: "Do you want deep reasoning and document analysis, or just a simple rewrite?"
Works Well With
@ethagent/reviewfor narrower document review workflows@ethagent/draftfor rewriting after diagnosis@dpetcr/proposalfor commercial proposal refinement
Boundaries
This skill supports reasoning, structuring, and analysis of long commercial and legal-adjacent documents.
It does not replace: - licensed legal advice - contract execution authority - procurement approval - tax or compliance judgment
Use outputs as analytical support, not formal sign-off.