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How to draft a new document into the matter — template-first via list-templates/draft-document, from scratch only when no template fits. Use whenever asked to create, draft, or prepare a new document.

How to retrieve current statute and regulation text from official primary sources with the webfetch tool instead of relying on memory. Use whenever advice, a finding, or a drafting decision turns on what a statute, code section, or regulation actually says — checking whether a clause is lawful in the matter's jurisdiction, verifying an amendment, quoting statutory language, or confirming a citation.

The issue-spotting checklist for employment documents — the areas where employment agreements go wrong and the patterns that mark a clause as defective or jurisdiction-sensitive. Use when drafting or reviewing any employment document — an employment agreement, offer letter, severance or separation agreement, or confidentiality/invention-assignment agreement. States WHERE to look, never what the law says: retrieve the governing law itself per the legal-research skill.

Reference library of balanced market positions, common one-sided variants, and fallback ladders for the twelve clause families reviewed in every commercial contract. Use when judging whether a clause is standard or one-sided, proposing alternative language, building a fallback position, or answering "what is market" for liability caps, indemnities, termination, payment, IP, confidentiality, warranties, remedies, assignment, governing law, force majeure, or data protection.

Firm playbook: positions, fallbacks, and approved clause text for GDPR/UK GDPR data processing agreements — Article 28 processor obligations, international transfers, liability allocation. EU/UK jurisdiction scope.

Firm playbook: positions, fallbacks, and approved clause text for law-firm client engagement letters governed by the law of England and Wales. Do not apply to engagements governed by any other jurisdiction.

Firm playbook: positions, fallbacks, and approved clause text for US-law mutual NDAs. Apply only to agreements governed by the law of a US state.

Firm playbook: positions, fallbacks, and approved clause text for US-law SaaS and cloud master subscription agreements, with customer-side and vendor-side notes per position.

Firm playbook: positions, fallbacks, and approved clause text for US commercial services and consulting agreements, taken from the customer side. Do not apply to agreements governed by non-US law.

The rules for grounding every claim about a matter document in a verified citation — anchoring quotes with the cite tool, handling failed verification, and sourcing case law only from the case-law tool. Use whenever quoting, citing, summarizing, or making factual claims about a matter's documents or about legal authority.

A procedure for auditing every legal citation in a brief, memo, motion, or opinion letter against the CourtListener database — hallucination detection for legal writing. Use when asked to cite-check, verify citations, validate authorities, confirm cases are real, or review a draft before filing or sending.

The canonical 12-area risk checklist for commercial contract review, with the red-flag patterns that mark each area as one-sided or dangerous. Use when reviewing any contract for risk — an NDA, MSA, SaaS agreement, services or consulting agreement, license, vendor terms, or order form — or when asked to spot issues, find red flags, assess a draft, mark up a counterparty's paper, or answer "what's wrong with this contract."

Defines the practice profile — a plain-English markdown file at .dochaus/profile.md in the matter directory recording the firm's escalation rules, house style, risk calibration, and jurisdiction defaults — and how to create, load, and apply it. Use when setting up a new firm or matter, onboarding, when asked to "use our house style" or record firm preferences, or before any review, draft, or redline that should follow the firm's standing positions.

A checklist of protections that should be present in a contract but are absent entirely — the gaps a clause-by-clause review misses because there is no clause to flag. Use when reviewing an NDA, services agreement or MSA, DPA, or employment agreement and asked what is missing, what gaps exist, or whether the document adequately protects a party.

House conventions for editing matter documents — choosing exact-text anchors, picking redline vs tracked-changes, attributing changes to the firm, and applying playbook approved language byte-exact. Use whenever editing, redlining, amending, or applying tracked changes to a matter document.

A checklist for attorney-client privilege and work-product protection before any document or excerpt leaves the workspace. Use before sharing, exporting, producing, or quoting matter materials to anyone outside the privileged group.