Legal Contract Intake And Clause Review with Claude Code: API Runtime Pattern
A production playbook for legal contract intake and clause review in legal operations using Claude Code: api runtime pattern, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Legal operations teams at law firms and in-house counsel
The problem
Legal operations teams at law firms and in-house counsel need legal contract intake and clause review to run repeatedly against contracts, redlines, clause playbooks, exhibits, and approval policy. In legal operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.
Implementation path
Package the legal contract intake and clause review instructions as a skill, send contracts, redlines, clause playbooks, exhibits, and approval policy 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 contract intake and clause review, 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-contract-intake
inputs[]=@./input-pack.zip
result_schema=argo.result.v1
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