Legal Contract Intake And Clause Review with Claude Code: Result JSON Schema
A production playbook for legal contract intake and clause review in legal operations using Claude Code: result json schema, 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
Define the outer result contract once, let the legal contract intake and clause review skill own body.data, and reject terminal output that does not match the expected schema.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
Schema enforcement adds upfront design work, but removes prompt parsing from the product surface. 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.
Result shape
{
"schema_version": "argo.result.v1",
"summary": "legal contract intake and clause review completed",
"body": { "type": "legal_contract_intake", "data": {}, "exceptions": [] },
"artifacts": []
}
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