Civil Code Contract Review

Problem

Before signing, many contract risks are not about readability, but about missing or mismatched terms: an excessive penalty clause, absent dispute-resolution language, vague delivery standards, or missing confidentiality and force-majeure terms. Manually checking every clause against the PRC Civil Code contract section and related interpretations is slow and error-prone. This skill targets contracts governed by the PRC Civil Code and provides a reproducible review path from text extraction to a risk report.

How It Works

• Triggering: Use natural language such as “review this contract” or commands like review-clause, batch-review, and law-lookup.
• Parsing: Supports txt, docx, and text-based pdf; docx requires python-docx, while pdf requires PyPDF2. Scanned PDFs should be converted to txt or docx first.
• Assessment: Scores clauses across legality, fairness, completeness, clarity, and enforceability, then flags risks as [HIGH], [MED], or [LOW].
• Detection: Checks 12 common missing clause types, including penalties, dispute resolution, termination conditions, liability for breach, confidentiality, and force majeure.
• Reporting: generate-report outputs a Markdown report; batch review can create per-file reports in review_reports/ plus a summary table.

Limits And Cautions

It is best suited to pre-signing checks for typical commercial, lease, service, procurement, or employment contracts, especially for obvious excessive penalties, vague wording, and missing required terms. The documented behavior relies on keyword matching and pattern recognition, with 24 core code provisions and government-procurement-specific rules. It does not cover deep industry regulations such as finance or healthcare, and it cannot replace a lawyer’s formal legal opinion. Major, disputed, or highly specialized contracts should still be reviewed manually.