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Legal-adjacent administration

Assemble a Contract Administration File

A complete, indexed contract record that shows the basis, approvals, obligations, changes, performance, payments, and closeout status for professional review.

The process

Work it in this order.

  1. Identify the parties, contract identifier, effective and end dates, owner, administrator, and applicable file checklist.
  2. Collect the signed agreement, exhibits, solicitation and evaluation records, approvals, insurance or compliance evidence, and required notices.
  3. Create a version-controlled index separating executed documents, drafts, modifications, correspondence, deliverables, invoices, and disputes.
  4. Extract obligations, milestones, renewal and termination dates, notice addresses, payment terms, and responsible owners without interpreting ambiguous clauses.
  5. Link each amendment and material decision to the underlying approval and preserve the execution trail.
  6. Reconcile deliverables and invoices to acceptance records and document missing items or unresolved issues.
  7. Prepare a closeout or handoff memo and route legal interpretations and disputes to qualified counsel.

Bring this

Inputs the cat will ask for.

  • Executed contract and amendments
  • Organization contract-file checklist
  • Deliverables, invoices, and correspondence
  • Named contract owner and reviewers

Router + one playbook

Route first. Choose one.

Cat Paw loads one playbook per task rather than merging several. Start with this router; the remaining paths are workflow-specific candidates it can inspect.

  • Router: documents
  • skills/product/pm-toolkit/draft-nda/SKILL.md
  • skills/product/pm-toolkit/grammar-check/SKILL.md

Guardrails

The boundaries travel with the prompt.

  • Do not interpret legal rights, waive obligations, send notices, or approve amendments without authorized human review.
  • Preserve executed originals and distinguish them unmistakably from drafts.
  • Apply contractual confidentiality, privilege, retention, and access restrictions.

Done means

A checkable finish.

The authorized contract owner confirms the index is complete, critical dates and obligations have owners, and all missing or disputed items are escalated.

Sources

Where this process came from.

  1. www.acquisition.gov/far/4.802
  2. www.acquisition.gov/far/4.803

Sources establish the workflow pattern. Reddit and community posts, where present, are treated as practitioner anecdotes rather than universal facts.

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