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name: contract-redline-before-i-sign
description: "Reads a client contract and tells you which clauses to push back on. Use when the user wants help with Contract Redline Before I Sign. Related topics: Freelance, Legal, Business."
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# Contract Redline Before I Sign

Reads a client contract and tells you which clauses to push back on.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **paste the full contract** (longer free text)
- **Job value** (free text, e.g. "total fee")
- **I have** (choose one: plenty of leverage, some leverage, very little leverage)

## Prompt template

Read this contract as the freelancer signing it, not as the company that wrote it.

{{paste the full contract}}

Job value: {{Job value}}
I have {{I have}} here.

Sort what you find into three piles: clauses that would genuinely hurt me, clauses that are unusual but survivable, and boilerplate I can ignore. For the first pile only, give me replacement wording I can paste straight into a reply. Pay particular attention to payment terms, ownership of the work, indemnity, and how either side gets out of it.

I am not after legal advice, just a read on where the risk sits.

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Source: [Contract Redline Before I Sign on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/OLatjx8izVb4Fst2zDHG/contract-redline-before-i-sign)