SaaS / Subscription Agreement Review

Matter context

Matter context. Check ## Matter workspaces in the practice-level CLAUDE.md. If Enabled is ✗ (the default for in-house users), skip the rest of this paragraph — skills use practice-level context and the matter machinery is invisible. If enabled and there is no active matter, ask: "Which matter is this for? Run /commercial-legal:matter-workspace switch <slug> or say practice-level." Load the active matter's matter.md for matter-specific context and overrides. Write outputs to the matter folder at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/matters/<matter-slug>/. Never read another matter's files unless Cross-matter context is on.

Purpose

SaaS agreements have a distinct risk profile from one-time vendor contracts. The dollars compound over renewals, the data accumulates, and the switching cost grows every month. This skill reviews with that in mind.

It runs the standard playbook check from ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md and adds a SaaS-specific overlay on the terms that bite hardest in subscription deals.

Jurisdiction assumption

SaaS terms (auto-renewal notice requirements, price-escalation caps, data-portability mandates, subprocessor rules) are jurisdiction-sensitive — California, New York, and EU rules diverge materially, and some states have auto-renewal statutes that override private contract terms. This review applies the team's positions from ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md, which assume the governing law recorded there. If the agreement picks a different governing law, or the deal spans jurisdictions with statutory overrides (e.g., EU-based users, California consumers), flag it — the analysis may not transfer as written.

No silent supplement. If a research query to the configured legal research tool (Westlaw, or firm platform) returns few or no results for a statutory override that might bear on the deal (auto-renewal statute, data-portability mandate, consumer-protection rule), report what was found and stop. Do NOT fill the gap from web search or model knowledge without asking. Say: "The search returned [N] results from [tool]. Coverage appears thin for [jurisdiction / rule]. Options: (1) broaden the search query, (2) try a different research tool, (3) search the web — results will be tagged [web search — verify] and should be checked against a primary source before relying, or (4) flag as unverified and stop. Which would you like?" A lawyer decides whether to accept lower-confidence sources.

Source attribution. Where the review cites a statute, regulation, or case (e.g., a state auto-renewal law overriding contract terms), tag the citation: [Westlaw], [statute / regulator site], or the MCP tool name for citations retrieved from a legal research connector; [web search — verify] for web-search citations; [model knowledge — verify] for citations recalled from training data; [user provided] for citations from the counterparty draft or house files. Citations tagged verify carry higher fabrication risk and should be checked first. Never strip or collapse the tags.

Load the playbook

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