Legal Clause Extraction with Claude Code: API Runtime Pattern
A production playbook for legal clause extraction in cross-industry operations using Claude Code: api runtime pattern, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Legal tech teams
The problem
Legal tech teams need legal clause extraction to run repeatedly against contracts, playbooks, clauses, and review notes. In cross-industry operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.
Implementation path
Package the legal clause extraction instructions as a skill, send contracts, playbooks, clauses, and review notes as run-scoped inputs, execute with Claude Code, poll terminal status, and consume argo.result.v1 instead of parsing a transcript.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
The API boundary forces the workflow to define inputs, terminal states, and result shape before customers depend on it. For legal clause extraction, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.
Run request
POST /api/skills/<skill_id>/run
provider=claude-code
workflow=legal-clause-extraction
inputs[]=@./input-pack.zip
result_schema=argo.result.v1
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