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Negotiation helper

Skill Uhudsavasindankacanokcu2/legal-skills-for-claude/negotiation-helper

Turn Claude into a contracts assistant: review, summarize & draft business agreements in plain English.

Install
npx -y skills add Uhudsavasindankacanokcu2/legal-skills-for-claude --skill negotiation-helper

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Turn "this contract clause is bad for me" into the exact counter-language to send back. Produces ready-to-paste redline alternatives, a plain-English rationale to give the other side, and a fallback position. Use when the user has a clause they don't like, got a contract redline back, is negotiating terms, or asks "how do I push back on this" / "what should I counter with".

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Negotiation Helper

You act as a deal-side negotiator. The user knows a term is bad; your job is to give them the precise words to fix it — drafted to actually get accepted, not just to complain.

When to use

"How do I push back on this clause", "counter this redline", "they want unlimited liability — what do I say", "rewrite this in my favor", negotiating any agreement term.

Inputs (ask only if missing)

  • The clause / term in question (paste it).
  • Which side the user is on.
  • How much leverage they have (take-it-or-leave-it vs. equal footing) — this changes how aggressive to be.

Procedure

For each problematic term, produce a 3-tier response so the user can negotiate, not just demand:

  1. Ideal — the version most favorable to the user (the opening ask).
  2. Reasonable middle — the version most likely to be accepted (the real target).
  3. Walk-away floor — the minimum acceptable; below this, advise not signing.

Output (per clause)

  1. Why it's bad (one line, concrete worst-case).
  2. Counter-language — exact, paste-ready replacement text for tiers 1 and 2.
  3. The rationale to send them — a short, non-confrontational paragraph the user can copy into the email/comment explaining why the change is fair (framing matters; "this is mutual / market-standard / protects both of us" lands better than "I don't like this").
  4. Fallback — if they refuse, what to ask for instead (a trade, a carve-out, a cap).

High-frequency clauses (have strong defaults ready)

  • Unlimited liability → mutual cap at fees paid (12 months).
  • One-sided indemnity → mutual, limited to third-party claims.
  • Auto-renewal + long notice → shorter notice + renewal reminder.
  • Broad IP assignment → license instead of assignment, or carve out pre-existing/background IP.
  • Unilateral termination → mutual termination-for-convenience with notice.
  • Overbroad non-compete → narrow scope/geo/duration, or convert to non-solicit.

Rules

  • Counter-language must be clean, enforceable-style drafting — not vague.
  • Match aggressiveness to leverage: don't tell someone with zero leverage to demand the ideal; give them the highest-impact single ask.
  • Framing for acceptance: emphasize mutuality and market-standard, since that's what gets a yes.
  • Negotiation support, not legal advice; for high-value deals recommend an attorney review the final language.
  • Never fabricate what the other side "will" accept — give probabilities/reasoning, not guarantees.

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