redline-summary

# Redline Summary ## Purpose Produce a structured, attorney-ready summary of the substantive edits between two versions of a contract, or within a single document containing tracked changes, or across a base agreement and a series of amendments. For each change, this skill identifies what was modified, which party the change favors, whether the change is material, and whether it warrants pushback or further negotiation. When an amendment chain is provided, the skill also establishes the chronological order of the documents and traces how the agreement has evolved across the entire chain. It produces draft legal work product for attorney review only. It is not legal advice and does not constitute a final negotiating position. The core discipline of this skill: **report only edits that are actually present in the provided documents.** Do not invent, interpolate, or assume changes that are not visible in the text. Do not characterize a change as "standard" or "acceptable" without flagging that characterization for attorney confirmation. ## Use When - A counterparty has returned a redlined draft and the user needs a structured summary of what changed. - The user asks to "summarize the redlines," "what did they change," "walk me through the markups," or "what should I push back on." - The user has two versions of a contract (clean or tracked) and needs to understand what is different between them. - Negotiations have progressed through multiple rounds and the user needs a rec...