Legal Contract Intake And Clause Review with Codex: SKILL.md Template
A production playbook for legal contract intake and clause review in legal operations using Codex: skill.md template, 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
Put the operating procedure in SKILL.md, keep examples beside the skill, attach contracts, redlines, clause playbooks, exhibits, and approval policy per run, and let Argo turn the folder into a repeatable Codex 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 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.
SKILL.md starter
# SKILL.md
You run legal contract intake and clause review using Codex.
Read only /skill/.argo/inputs.
Write artifacts to /skill/output/artifacts.
Return argo.result.v1 with body.type = "legal_contract_intake".
Run this on Argo