General Counsel Forcing Questions — Business

The General Counsel Forcing Questions skill runs a structured interrogation of contracts, term sheets, IP, regulatory, and employment-law surfaces before signing. It produces a GC review report with top issues, regulatory triggers, outside counsel action items, and a verdict.

c-level-advisor claude-code

📂 View skill on GitHub ↗ 🚀 How to use

✨ What it does

Checks IP ownership and work-for-hire vs license vs joint
Evaluates liability caps and indemnity carve-outs
Assesses data processing and DPA/GDPR/CCPA compliance
Reviews termination, notice, and auto-renewal terms
Identifies new regulatory regimes (HIPAA, fintech, FDA)
Examines employment classification, equity vesting, and 409A

🎯 When to use it

Before signing any contract over $100K or longer than 1 year
Before issuing equity grants or responding to a term sheet
Before entering a regulated market (healthcare, fintech, defense)
Before making open-source license decisions in core IP
Before an M&A LOI

🚀 How to use

Trigger: /cs:gc-review

Trigger with the slash command /cs:gc-review <plan> where <plan> is the contract, term sheet, or plan to review. The skill reads the document, runs six forcing questions, and outputs a structured report. Example prompts:

/cs:gc-review vendor-msa-draft.docx
/cs:gc-review term-sheet-from-investor.pdf

📄 Output: A GC Review markdown report with document details, issues table, regulatory trigger, outside counsel action items, and a verdict (SIGN/NEGOTIATE/DO NOT SIGN).

📦 Add this skill to Claude Code

# 1. Get the skills repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills /tmp/claude-skills

# 2. Copy this skill into your project (or ~/.claude/skills for all projects)
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/c-level-agents/skills/gc-review .claude/skills/gc-review

Skill source: c-level-agents/skills/gc-review/SKILL.md

⚠️ Good to know

This skill is not legal advice; it only surfaces questions to discuss with qualified outside counsel before binding decisions.

❓ FAQ

What is the standard liability cap mentioned?

The standard cap is 12 months of fees, with carve-outs for IP infringement, data breach, and willful misconduct.

What does the verdict '🔴 DO NOT SIGN' mean?

It indicates material risk that should prevent signing until resolved.

Can this skill run automated scans?

Yes, since v2.5.1 it can run Python scripts for contract risk scanning and term sheet scoring, but those are part of the underlying general-counsel-advisor skill.

🤖 Overview, features, install steps and FAQ were generated from the project's SKILL.md on Sep 4, 2026. Always check the original source before running commands.