open-agreements
This server allows you to discover, retrieve, and fill legal agreement templates (40+ across NDAs, cloud service agreements, employment docs, SAFEs, NVCA financing documents, etc.) to produce signable DOCX files.
List templates (
list_templates): Browse all available templates in compact or full metadata mode (includes fields, licenses, sources).Get template details (
get_template): Fetch a single template's full definition and field metadata by ID (e.g.,common-paper-mutual-nda), so you know exactly what values are needed.Fill a template (
fill_template): Render a filled, signable DOCX by providing a template ID and required field values. Output can be returned as a local file path or inline base64-encoded string.
Provides automated filling and generation of standard Y Combinator (YC) SAFEs as part of its external template library.
OpenAgreements
Open, primary-source-backed U.S. legal content and standard agreement templates — built for legal teams of any size and the agents helping them.
Legal Practice Library — jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction practice guides (non-compete & restrictive covenants, consumer data privacy, AI employment law), every claim cited to primary law.
Templates — 40+ fillable forms across NDAs, cloud service agreements, employment docs, SAFEs, and NVCA financing documents.
Checklists — clause-by-clause reviewer checklists.
Law Surveys — 50-state and international comparison tables.
This repository mirrors the OpenAgreements public legal content library for GitHub, local AI agents, and contributor pull requests. Everything ships as plain markdown here and as machine-readable twins on openagreements.org. Accepted content changes are reviewed and synchronized into the publishing workflow for openagreements.org.
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Who this is for
The practice guides, surveys, and checklists answer jurisdiction-specific questions with citations to primary law; the templates start from standard forms teams already recognize — Common Paper, Bonterms, NVCA model documents, and YC SAFE templates — keeping source, license, and validation context close to the document. It does not provide legal advice; consult an attorney.
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Contents
Legal Practice Library
Primary-source-backed legal practice guides, projected from openagreements.org as plain markdown under legal-practice-library/. Each guide cites primary law and links to its canonical page (with machine-readable twins — see Use it with AI agents & the CLI).
Topic | What it covers | Coverage | Markdown | HTML |
Non-Compete & Restrictive Covenants | Enforceability, blue-pencil reformation, tolling, choice of law, and FTC-rule status. | 57 U.S. states + international | ||
Consumer Data Privacy | CCPA/CPRA and every comprehensive state privacy act — who's covered, consumer rights, opt-outs, and who enforces. | 51 U.S. states | ||
AI Vendors | Zero-data-retention, data residency, and the terms that matter in AI vendor contracts. | 9 practice guides | ||
AI & the Workforce | AI in hiring and adverse-action, workforce AI policies, and outside-counsel transitions. | 20 practice guides | ||
Privacy-Policy Requirement Phrasings | Preferred phrasings for what a U.S. consumer privacy policy must disclose. | 8 practice guides |
Backed by 648 verbatim case excerpts — the passages our practice guides rely on, each linked to the full opinion on CourtListener. Supporting evidence, not a case database.
Available Templates
Fill standard legal agreement templates and get signable DOCX files — party info, dates, and terms in, formatting-preserving Word document out. The Source column links to the upstream standard or canonical project page (varies by publisher); the License column shows redistribution terms; Repo links point to the GitHub content directory for each template or field-selector. To fill one with an agent or the CLI, see Template Filling via MCP.
SAFEs
Template | HTML | Source | License | Repo |
Valuation Cap | ||||
Pro Rata Side Letter | ||||
MFN | ||||
Discount |
Venture Financing
Template | HTML | Source | License | Repo |
ROFR Co Sale Agreement | Field-selector | — | ||
Investors Rights Agreement | Field-selector | — | ||
Voting Agreement | Field-selector | — | ||
Stock Purchase Agreement | Field-selector | — | ||
Certificate Of Incorporation | Field-selector | — | ||
Indemnification Agreement | Field-selector | — | ||
Management Rights Letter | Field-selector | — |
Deals & Partnerships
Template | HTML | Source | License | Repo |
Design Partner Agreement | ||||
Term Sheet | ||||
Partnership Agreement | ||||
Pilot Agreement | ||||
Amendment | ||||
Letter Of Intent |
Sales & Licensing
Template | HTML | Source | License | Repo |
CSA Click Through | ||||
CSA Without SLA | ||||
CSA With SLA | ||||
Order Form | ||||
Cloud Service Agreement | ||||
Software License Agreement | ||||
Order Form With SLA | ||||
CSA With AI |
Confidentiality
Template | HTML | Source | License | Repo |
Common Paper Mutual NDA | ||||
Bonterms Mutual NDA | ||||
One Way NDA |
Board & Stockholder Consents
Template | HTML | Source | License | Repo |
Stockholder Consent SAFE | ||||
Board Consent SAFE | ||||
Founder Separation Board Consent | ||||
Founder Separation Stockholder Consent |
Employment
Template | HTML | Source | License | Repo |
Employment Offer Letter | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Wyoming | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Florida | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Massachusetts | ||||
Employment Offer Letter California | ||||
Employment Offer Letter Florida | ||||
Employment Offer Letter Illinois | ||||
Employment Offer Letter Massachusetts | ||||
Employment Offer Letter New York | ||||
Employment Offer Letter Pennsylvania | ||||
Employment Offer Letter Texas | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Alabama | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Alaska | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Arizona | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Arkansas | ||||
Restrictive Covenant California | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Colorado | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Connecticut | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Delaware | ||||
Restrictive Covenant District Of Columbia | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Georgia | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Hawaii | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Idaho | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Illinois | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Indiana | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Iowa | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Kansas | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Kentucky | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Louisiana | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Maine | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Maryland | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Michigan | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Minnesota | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Mississippi | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Missouri | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Montana | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Nebraska | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Nevada | ||||
Restrictive Covenant New Hampshire | ||||
Restrictive Covenant New Jersey | ||||
Restrictive Covenant New Mexico | ||||
Restrictive Covenant New York | ||||
Restrictive Covenant North Carolina | ||||
Restrictive Covenant North Dakota | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Ohio | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Oklahoma | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Oregon | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Pennsylvania | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Rhode Island | ||||
Restrictive Covenant South Carolina | ||||
Restrictive Covenant South Dakota | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Tennessee | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Texas | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Utah | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Vermont | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Virginia | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Washington | ||||
Restrictive Covenant West Virginia | ||||
Restrictive Covenant Wisconsin |
Professional Services
Template | HTML | Source | License | Repo |
Independent Contractor Agreement | ||||
Common Paper Professional Services Agreement | ||||
Bonterms Professional Services Agreement | ||||
Statement Of Work |
Data & Compliance
Template | HTML | Source | License | Repo |
Data Processing Agreement | ||||
AI Addendum | ||||
AI Addendum In App | ||||
Business Associate Agreement |
Deal Process
Template | HTML | Source | License | Repo |
Working Group List | ||||
Due Diligence Request List | ||||
Closing Checklist |
Other
Template | HTML | Source | License | Repo |
Confidentiality Invention Assignment Agreement | ||||
Board Ratifying Consent | ||||
Confidentiality Invention Assignment Agreement Nevada | ||||
Founder IP Confidentiality Confirmation | ||||
Founder Separation Cap Table Update Instructions | ||||
Founder Separation Records Checklist | ||||
Founder Separation Resignation Letter | ||||
Founder Share Repurchase Notice | ||||
Founder Stock Assignment Separate | ||||
Founder Stock Repurchase Agreement | ||||
Stockholder Ratifying Consent |
Checklists
Clause-by-clause reviewer checklists. Each has .json and .docx twins on the web, and contract checklists also emit a contract-api.json for template integrations.
Topic | What it covers | Markdown | HTML |
Non-Compete review | Clause-by-clause reviewer checklists — a baseline plus 50-state overlays. | ||
Privacy-Policy review | What a compliant U.S. consumer privacy policy must contain. | ||
Venture Financing review | NVCA model-document review (e.g. the Stock Purchase Agreement). |
Law Surveys
Side-by-side comparison tables across jurisdictions. The web pages also publish machine-readable .json and .csv twins (append .json / .csv, e.g. /surveys/non-compete/us.csv).
Survey | Markdown | HTML |
U.S. 50-State Non-Compete Survey | ||
U.S. 50-State Stay-or-Pay & Employee Repayment Survey | ||
U.S. 50-State Wage & Hour Survey | ||
U.S. corporate-governance survey | ||
U.S. founder-separation survey | ||
U.S. invention-assignment survey | ||
U.S. State Consumer Privacy Survey | ||
Worldwide Non-Compete Survey |
Available Skills
Install any skill by name (paths below are for browsing only — installs are name-based and survive reorganization):
npx skills add open-agreements/open-agreements --skill <skill-name>Legal Explainers
Skill | Description |
Explain U.S. state-by-state (and select international) non-compete and restrictive-covenant law. Reads a bundled, source-cited snapshot per jurisdiction. | |
Explain U.S. state-by-state consumer data-privacy law (CCPA/CPRA, TDPSA, VCDPA, CPA, and the other comprehensive state acts). Reads a bundled, source-cited snapshot per state. |
Agreement Drafting And Filling
Skill | Description |
Navigate and use the OpenAgreements legal content library — source-cited practice guides, review checklists, 50-state law surveys, and fill-ready agreement templates. Look up state-by-state legal guides, checklists, and law surveys, or fill standard templates (NDAs, cloud service agreements, SAFEs) into signable DOCX files. Supports Common Paper, Bonterms, and Y Combinator templates. Use when the user needs a practice guide, a review checklist, a law survey, to draft a legal agreement, create an NDA, fill a contract template, or generate a SAFE. | |
Draft and fill NDA templates — mutual NDA, one-way NDA, confidentiality agreement. Produces signable DOCX files from Common Paper and Bonterms standard forms. Use when user says "NDA," "non-disclosure agreement," "confidentiality agreement," "mutual NDA," or "one-way NDA." | |
Draft and fill SaaS agreement templates — cloud contract, MSA, order form, software license, pilot agreement, design partner agreement. Includes variants with SLAs and AI terms. Produces signable DOCX from Common Paper standard forms. Use when user says "SaaS agreement," "cloud contract," "MSA," "order form," "software license," "pilot agreement," or "design partner agreement." | |
Draft and fill services agreement templates — consulting contract, contractor agreement, SOW, statement of work, professional services agreement. Produces signable DOCX files from Common Paper and Bonterms standard forms. Use when user says "consulting contract," "contractor agreement," "SOW," "statement of work," "services agreement," or "freelancer contract." | |
Draft and fill employment contract templates — offer letter, employment agreement, IP/inventions assignment (PIIA), and confidentiality acknowledgement — producing signable DOCX files from OpenAgreements standard forms for hiring employees. Use when the user says "employment contract," "employment agreement," "offer letter," "PIIA," "IP assignment," "hire someone," "new hire paperwork," or "onboarding paperwork." To explain non-compete or restrictive-covenant law rather than draft a document, see the non-compete-contract-explainer skill. | |
Draft and fill data privacy agreement templates — DPA, data processing agreement, GDPR, HIPAA BAA, business associate agreement, AI addendum. Produces signable DOCX files from Common Paper standard forms. Use when user says "DPA," "data processing agreement," "HIPAA BAA," "business associate agreement," or "AI addendum." To understand a U.S. state's consumer privacy law (CCPA etc.) rather than draft, see data-privacy-law-explainer. | |
Draft and fill Y Combinator SAFE templates — valuation cap, discount, MFN, pro rata side letter. Standard startup fundraising documents for convertible equity. Produces signable DOCX files. Use when user says "SAFE," "simple agreement for future equity," "YC SAFE," "valuation cap," "seed round documents," or "fundraising paperwork." | |
Draft and fill NVCA model documents — stock purchase agreement, certificate of incorporation, investors rights agreement, voting agreement, ROFR, co-sale, indemnification, management rights letter. Series A and venture financing templates. Produces signable DOCX files. Use when user says "Series A documents," "NVCA," "stock purchase agreement," "investors rights agreement," "voting agreement," or "venture financing docs." |
Editing And Client Workflows
Skill | Description |
Make bespoke edits to a DOCX agreement generated by OpenAgreements (or any existing DOCX), using Safe Docx MCP tools for surgical, formatting-preserving edits and tracked-changes outputs. Use when user says "edit this contract," "change a clause," "modify the agreement," "custom edits to the docx," or "bespoke changes to the document." | |
Draft client-facing emails for legal services — cover notes for contract deliverables, redline summaries, deal status updates, and follow-ups. Use when composing or revising outbound emails to clients about legal work product. Triggers on "draft reply," "email to client," "cover note," "write back to," or any outbound email accompanying a legal deliverable. | |
File your Delaware annual franchise tax and annual report. Guides you through tax calculation (Authorized Shares and Assumed Par Value Capital methods), the eCorp portal filing process, and payment. For Delaware C-Corps (March 1 deadline) and LLCs/LPs/GPs (June 1 deadline). Use when user says "Delaware franchise tax," "annual report Delaware," "file franchise tax," or "eCorp portal." |
Compliance And Audit
Skill | Description |
Assess SOC 2 Type II readiness. Map Trust Services Criteria to controls, identify gaps, and build a remediation plan. Uses NIST SP 800-53 (public domain) as canonical reference with SOC 2 criterion cross-mapping. Use when user says "SOC 2 readiness," "SOC 2 preparation," "SOC 2 gap analysis," or "prepare for SOC 2 audit." | |
Run an ISO 27001 internal audit. Walk through controls by domain, identify gaps, collect evidence, and generate findings with corrective action recommendations. Uses NIST SP 800-53 (public domain) as canonical reference. Use when user says "run internal audit," "ISO 27001 audit," "control assessment," "audit findings," or "ISMS assessment." | |
Collect, organize, and validate evidence for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 audits. API-first approach with CLI commands for major cloud platforms. Produces timestamped, auditor-ready evidence packages. Use when user says "collect audit evidence," "prepare evidence package," "evidence for the auditor," "refresh evidence," or "evidence gap analysis." |
Internal repo-maintenance skills (marked internal: true in their SKILL.md metadata) are excluded from this catalog and from default npx skills add installs.
Use it with AI agents & the CLI
Fill any template from a coding agent over MCP — local stdio or the hosted server at https://openagreements.org/api/mcp — or from the open-agreements CLI, and read every guide, survey, and checklist as machine-readable JSON/CSV twins.
→ Using OpenAgreements with AI agents & the CLI — setup for Claude Code, Cursor, and Gemini CLI; the CLI reference; and the machine-readable twins table.
Packages
Package | Description |
Open-source legal template filling CLI and library | |
Local stdio MCP server for OpenAgreements template discovery and filling | |
Workspace-oriented CLI for organizing and tracking contract repositories | |
Local stdio MCP server for contracts workspace operations | |
Local stdio MCP server for OpenAgreements checklist memory operations |
Documentation
Start Here
Guides
Other Packages
Reference
Links: Website | Template Catalog | Docs | Trust | npm
Privacy
Local mode (
npx, global install, stdio MCP): all processing happens on your machine. No document content is sent externally.Hosted mode (
https://openagreements.org/api/mcp): template filling runs server-side. No filled documents are stored after the response is returned.
See the Privacy Policy for details.
Security policy: see SECURITY.md.
See Also
safe-docx — surgical editing of existing Word documents with coding agents
Roadmap
Planned work is tracked in open issues.
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to add templates, field-selectors, and other improvements. The Legal Practice Library is generated upstream — see its index.md for where to send content fixes.
Built With OpenAgreements
Safe Clause — AI-powered contract platform for startups. #1 on vibecode.law, March 2026.
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License
Project code is licensed under Apache License 2.0. The Apache license covers the code only — bundled template content retains its upstream licenses, set by its respective authors:
CC BY 4.0 for Common Paper, Bonterms, OpenAgreements-authored templates, and the Legal Practice Library
CC BY-ND 4.0 for Y Combinator SAFE templates vendored unchanged
proprietary or non-redistributable for NVCA source documents handled via field-selector workflows
See each template's metadata.yaml for source-specific details.
This tool generates documents from standard templates and provides general legal information. It does not provide legal advice. Consult an attorney for legal guidance.
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