Legal Clause Extraction with Claude Code: MCP Tool Boundary

A production playbook for legal clause extraction in cross-industry operations using Claude Code: mcp tool boundary, 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

Expose only the MCP tools needed for legal clause extraction, validate tool arguments, keep credentials in the owning service, and log each call outside the sandbox.

Tradeoffs and failure modes

Narrow tool boundaries reduce agent flexibility, but make the integration reviewable and supportable. 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.

Tool policy

tool: legal-clause-extraction_lookup
agent: Claude Code
input_scope: /skill/.argo/inputs
credential_owner: broker
log_arguments: true
network_policy: allowlisted

Run this on Argo