Legal Due Diligence Document Review with Claude Code: SKILL.md Template
A production playbook for legal due diligence document review in legal operations using Claude Code: skill.md template, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: M&A legal teams and diligence operators
The problem
M&A legal teams and diligence operators need legal due diligence document review to run repeatedly against data room folders, contracts, corporate docs, schedules, and exception lists. In legal operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.
Implementation path
Put the operating procedure in SKILL.md, keep examples beside the skill, attach data room folders, contracts, corporate docs, schedules, and exception lists per run, and let Argo turn the folder into a repeatable Claude Code execution.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
A skill folder is less flexible than an open chat, but it gives the product a versioned workflow that can be tested and rolled back. For legal due diligence document review, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.
SKILL.md starter
# SKILL.md
You run legal due diligence document review using Claude Code.
Read only /skill/.argo/inputs.
Write artifacts to /skill/output/artifacts.
Return argo.result.v1 with body.type = "legal_due_diligence".
Run this on Argo