Contracts

What This Skill Does

The Contracts skill for OpenClaw is a centralized management system designed to bring order to the chaos of legal documentation. Whether you are a freelancer juggling client agreements, a landlord managing leases, or an enterprise professional organizing subscription libraries, this skill acts as your personal digital clerk. It standardizes the storage and indexing of contracts, ensuring that key information—such as effective dates, notice periods, and auto-renewal terms—is always at your fingertips. By providing a structured hierarchy, the skill enables users to quickly locate executed versions, track amendment history, and monitor signature statuses in a logical directory tree.

Installation

To begin using this skill, ensure you have the OpenClaw agent installed and the required permissions for directory management. Use the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ivangdavila/contracts

Once installed, the agent will initialize the ~/contracts/ directory structure, including your master index and categorization subfolders. Follow the prompt in your terminal to sync your existing contract PDFs into the newly created structure for immediate indexing.

Use Cases

1. Subscription Management: Automatically track monthly SaaS renewals and aggregate total annual spend across all vendors.
2. Lease Tracking: Receive proactive 90, 60, and 30-day alerts before your office or residential lease expires to avoid accidental auto-renewals.
3. Freelance Workflow: Keep NDAs, Statements of Work (SOWs), and Master Service Agreements (MSAs) organized by counterparty, allowing for rapid clause retrieval when negotiating new projects.
4. Legal Operations: Maintain a library of versioned documents, ensuring that every amendment is linked back to the original parent contract for a clear audit trail.

Example Prompts

• "OpenClaw, scan this new NDA and add it to my ~/contracts/ directory, extracting the signature status and the expiration date."
• "What is my cancellation notice period for the Adobe subscription, and do I have any upcoming renewals in the next 30 days?"
• "Find all contracts that expire this quarter and prepare a summary list of the counterparty names and their respective effective dates."

Tips & Limitations

To get the most out of this skill, ensure your PDF filenames are descriptive. Use the internal notes.md files within each contract folder to record personal context or reminders that aren't strictly part of the legal text.

Crucial Note on Safety: This skill is a management tool, not an attorney. The agent is strictly prohibited from providing legal advice, interpreting clauses for their legal merit, or recommending specific courses of action during a dispute. If you ask if a clause is 'good' or 'legally binding,' the agent will decline to interpret it and refer you to a qualified professional. Additionally, all files remain local to your machine; the agent will never transmit your contract contents to cloud services or external servers.