| name | msa-snapshot |
| title | MSA Snapshot |
| description | Use when the user wants to compare the substantive commercial terms across N master services agreements side-by-side — term and renewal, payment terms, limitation of liability, and indemnification posture across each agreement. Returns a row-per-document × column-per-question grid with citations per cell. MSA-tuned reference skill for the M3-C `output_format - table` mode; intended as a fork-and-tune starting point for operators reviewing MSA portfolios. |
| author | LegalQuants |
| author_url | https://github.com/LegalQuants/lq-ai/tree/main/skills/msa-snapshot |
| license | Apache-2.0 |
| version | 0.1.0 |
| execution_mode | open |
| jurisdiction | general |
| practice | commercial |
| language | en |
MSA Snapshot
A reference skill for the M3-C output_format: table mode, tuned for master services agreement portfolios. Produces a side-by-side grid of MSA-specific commercial terms across N agreements — the in-house lawyer's "compare these vendor MSAs" or "diligence these target MSAs" workflow. Each cell carries a citation back to the source document; failed extractions render as not found rather than confidently-wrong text.
When this skill applies
Apply when the user has a portfolio of MSAs and wants to see how key commercial terms compare across them. Examples:
- "Pull liability caps, indemnification, and payment terms across these 8 vendor MSAs before our renewal cycle."
- "For this acquisition diligence, show me the renewal trigger and termination posture across the target's top 15 MSAs."
- "Compare the liability carveouts across our SaaS MSAs vs. our commercial-purchase MSAs."
Do not apply this skill to:
- Single-MSA review — use
msa-review-saas or msa-review-commercial-purchase for one document at a time.
- General contract comparison across mixed types — use
contract-snapshot for the general Term/Survival/Carveouts/Governing-Law grid.
- NDA portfolios — use
nda-snapshot for NDA-specific columns (Confidential Information definition, permitted recipients, etc.).
Pairing with the synthetic corpus
This skill ships paired with the synthetic MSA corpus in docs/quickstart/sample-msas/ (5 MSAs with varying commercial terms). Operators trying LQ.AI for the first time can attach those 5 PDFs to a Knowledge Base and run this skill to see the tabular workflow end-to-end without committing real documents to the system.
Fork-and-tune notes
The four columns here cover the highest-frequency MSA comparison questions for in-house counsel doing portfolio review or diligence. They do not overlap with the general contract-snapshot columns (Term, Survival, Carveouts, Governing Law) — operators wanting both can run the two skills in sequence.
When forking for your own MSA template / counterparty patterns, common modifications include:
- Adding a Termination for Convenience column if your business cares about exit flexibility (notice period + fee structure).
- Adding a SLA / Service Levels column for SaaS-heavy MSA portfolios (credit structure + measurement period).
- Adding a Data Processing column if you need to compare DPA references and data-residency commitments across vendors.
- Replacing the column with a narrower column if that is the only indemnification scope you care about.
