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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

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

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Non-Compete & Restrictive Covenants

Enforceability, blue-pencil reformation, tolling, choice of law, and FTC-rule status.

57 U.S. states + international

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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

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AI Vendors

Zero-data-retention, data residency, and the terms that matter in AI vendor contracts.

9 practice guides

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AI & the Workforce

AI in hiring and adverse-action, workforce AI policies, and outside-counsel transitions.

20 practice guides

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Privacy-Policy Requirement Phrasings

Preferred phrasings for what a U.S. consumer privacy policy must disclose.

8 practice guides

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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

Venture Financing

Template

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Source

License

Repo

ROFR Co Sale Agreement

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NVCA

Field-selector

Investors Rights Agreement

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NVCA

Field-selector

Voting Agreement

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NVCA

Field-selector

Stock Purchase Agreement

HTML

NVCA

Field-selector

Certificate Of Incorporation

HTML

NVCA

Field-selector

Indemnification Agreement

HTML

NVCA

Field-selector

Management Rights Letter

HTML

NVCA

Field-selector

Deals & Partnerships

Sales & Licensing

Confidentiality

Template

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Source

License

Repo

Common Paper Mutual NDA

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Common Paper

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Bonterms Mutual NDA

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Bonterms

Public domain (CC0)

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One Way NDA

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Common Paper

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

Repo

Board & Stockholder Consents

Template

HTML

Source

License

Repo

Stockholder Consent SAFE

HTML

OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

Repo

Board Consent SAFE

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Founder Separation Board Consent

HTML

OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Founder Separation Stockholder Consent

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Employment

Template

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Source

License

Repo

Employment Offer Letter

HTML

OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

Repo

Restrictive Covenant Wyoming

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Restrictive Covenant Florida

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Restrictive Covenant Massachusetts

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Employment Offer Letter California

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Employment Offer Letter Florida

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Employment Offer Letter Illinois

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Employment Offer Letter Massachusetts

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Employment Offer Letter New York

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OpenAgreements

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Employment Offer Letter Pennsylvania

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OpenAgreements

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Employment Offer Letter Texas

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OpenAgreements

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Restrictive Covenant Alabama

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Restrictive Covenant Alaska

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Restrictive Covenant Arizona

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Restrictive Covenant Arkansas

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Restrictive Covenant California

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Restrictive Covenant Colorado

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Restrictive Covenant Connecticut

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Restrictive Covenant Delaware

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Restrictive Covenant District Of Columbia

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Restrictive Covenant Georgia

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Restrictive Covenant Hawaii

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Restrictive Covenant Idaho

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Restrictive Covenant Illinois

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Restrictive Covenant Indiana

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Restrictive Covenant Iowa

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Restrictive Covenant Kansas

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Restrictive Covenant Kentucky

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Restrictive Covenant Louisiana

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Restrictive Covenant Maine

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Restrictive Covenant Maryland

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Restrictive Covenant Michigan

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Restrictive Covenant Minnesota

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Restrictive Covenant Mississippi

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Restrictive Covenant Missouri

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Restrictive Covenant Montana

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Restrictive Covenant Nebraska

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Restrictive Covenant Nevada

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Restrictive Covenant New Hampshire

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Restrictive Covenant New Jersey

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Restrictive Covenant New Mexico

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Restrictive Covenant New York

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Restrictive Covenant North Carolina

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Restrictive Covenant North Dakota

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Restrictive Covenant Ohio

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Restrictive Covenant Oklahoma

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Restrictive Covenant Oregon

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Restrictive Covenant Pennsylvania

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Restrictive Covenant Rhode Island

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Restrictive Covenant South Carolina

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Restrictive Covenant South Dakota

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Restrictive Covenant Tennessee

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Restrictive Covenant Texas

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Restrictive Covenant Utah

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Restrictive Covenant Vermont

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Restrictive Covenant Virginia

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Restrictive Covenant Washington

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Restrictive Covenant West Virginia

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Restrictive Covenant Wisconsin

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OpenAgreements

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Professional Services

Template

HTML

Source

License

Repo

Independent Contractor Agreement

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Common Paper

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Common Paper Professional Services Agreement

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Common Paper

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Bonterms Professional Services Agreement

HTML

Bonterms

Public domain (CC0)

Repo

Statement Of Work

HTML

Common Paper

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

Repo

Data & Compliance

Deal Process

Template

HTML

Source

License

Repo

Working Group List

HTML

OpenAgreements

Public domain (CC0)

Repo

Due Diligence Request List

HTML

OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Closing Checklist

HTML

OpenAgreements

Public domain (CC0)

Repo

Other

Template

HTML

Source

License

Repo

Confidentiality Invention Assignment Agreement

HTML

OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

Repo

Board Ratifying Consent

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Confidentiality Invention Assignment Agreement Nevada

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Founder IP Confidentiality Confirmation

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Founder Separation Cap Table Update Instructions

HTML

OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Founder Separation Records Checklist

HTML

OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Founder Separation Resignation Letter

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Founder Share Repurchase Notice

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Founder Stock Assignment Separate

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Founder Stock Repurchase Agreement

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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Stockholder Ratifying Consent

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OpenAgreements

Creative Commons (CC-BY)

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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

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Non-Compete review

Clause-by-clause reviewer checklists — a baseline plus 50-state overlays.

Markdown

HTML

Privacy-Policy review

What a compliant U.S. consumer privacy policy must contain.

Markdown

HTML

Venture Financing review

NVCA model-document review (e.g. the Stock Purchase Agreement).

Markdown

HTML

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

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U.S. 50-State Non-Compete Survey

Markdown

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U.S. 50-State Stay-or-Pay & Employee Repayment Survey

Markdown

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U.S. 50-State Wage & Hour Survey

Markdown

HTML

U.S. corporate-governance survey

Markdown

HTML

U.S. founder-separation survey

Markdown

HTML

U.S. invention-assignment survey

Markdown

HTML

U.S. State Consumer Privacy Survey

Markdown

HTML

Worldwide Non-Compete Survey

Markdown

HTML

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>

Skill

Description

non-compete-contract-explainer

Explain U.S. state-by-state (and select international) non-compete and restrictive-covenant law. Reads a bundled, source-cited snapshot per jurisdiction.

data-privacy-law-explainer

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

open-agreements

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.

nda

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."

cloud-service-agreement

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."

services-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."

employment-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.

data-privacy-agreement

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.

safe

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."

venture-financing

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

edit-docx-agreement

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."

client-email

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.

delaware-franchise-tax

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

soc2-readiness

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."

iso-27001-internal-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."

iso-27001-evidence-collection

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-agreements

Open-source legal template filling CLI and library

@open-agreements/contract-templates-mcp

Local stdio MCP server for OpenAgreements template discovery and filling

@open-agreements/contracts-workspace

Workspace-oriented CLI for organizing and tracking contract repositories

@open-agreements/contracts-workspace-mcp

Local stdio MCP server for contracts workspace operations

@open-agreements/checklist-mcp

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

Building on OpenAgreements? Open a PR to add your project.

Star History

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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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