/tabular-review

1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/corporate-legal/CLAUDE.md → diligence structure, thresholds, house format.
2. Confirm: what documents, what columns, where does the output go.
3. Build the typed schema. Write .review-schema.yaml. Confirm with the user.
4. Sample run (3–5 docs). Adjust schema. Confirm.
5. Fan out — one sub-agent per document, parallel. Each cell: value + state + verbatim quote + location.
6. Normalization pass. Flag outliers and inconsistencies.
7. Output: .xlsx or Google Sheets (ask which), plus .csv + _sources.csv + markdown always. Work-product header.
8. Summary: verification workload (counts of not_present / unclear / needs_review per column), flagged columns, where the files are, reminder that every cell is a lead not a finding.

/corporate-legal:tabular-review
/corporate-legal:tabular-review --schema .review-schema.yaml --docs ./vdr/02-Contracts/
/corporate-legal:tabular-review --template ma-diligence

--schema <path>: Use an existing schema file instead of building one. Useful for re-runs and incremental additions.

--template <name>: Start from a template in references/. Currently: ma-diligence.

--docs <path>: Document source. A local folder, a Drive folder ID, or a VDR path. If omitted, asks.

--output <xlsx|gsheets|csv>: Output format. If omitted, asks.

--sample <n>: Sample size for the schema check. Default 5.

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 /corporate-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/corporate-legal/matters/<matter-slug>/. Never read another matter's files unless Cross-matter context is on.

Purpose

You have a pile of documents and a list of questions you need answered consistently across every one. A diligence request list. A vendor contract audit. A lease portfolio review. The output is a table: document rows, data-point columns, and every cell traceable to the exact words in the source.

This is not issue spotting. diligence-issue-extraction finds the 30 problems hiding in 2,000 documents. This skill answers the same 15 questions about all 2,000 documents. Both are legitimate; they answer different questions.

This is also not a replacement for a human reading the document. Every cell this skill produces is a lead that needs verification, not a finding. The output is designed to make verification fast, not to skip it.

Load context

• ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/corporate-legal/CLAUDE.md → diligence structure, materiality thresholds, house format preferences
• ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/corporate-legal/deals/[code]/deal-context.md if working a specific deal
• An existing schema file if the user has one (.review-schema.yaml)

The column type system

The thing that makes a tabular review useful is that Column C means the same thing in row 1 as in row 200. Free text drifts. Types hold.

Every column has a type that constrains the answer format:

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