renewal-tracker

/renewal-tracker

Surfaces what's renewing and when you have to cancel by.

Instructions

1. Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/renewal-register.yaml (the config directory — survives plugin updates).

2. Default mode: Mode 2 — what's coming up in the next 90 days, grouped by urgency using half-open intervals so each deadline lands in exactly one band: 🔴 0–13 days, 🟠 14–44 days, 🟡 45–89 days. Days 14, 45, and 90 are boundaries — each belongs to exactly one band, not two.

3. --days N: Change the window.

4. --missed: Mode 4 — cancel-by deadlines that passed without recorded cancellation.

5. If register is empty and the [CLM] is connected: Offer Mode 3 — scan the [CLM] for active agreements with renewal dates and bulk-load.

6. Output includes recommended actions: who to ping (the business owner from each register entry), which ones have uncapped pricing (get leverage before window closes).

Examples

/commercial-legal:renewal-tracker

/commercial-legal:renewal-tracker --days 180

/commercial-legal:renewal-tracker --missed

Purpose

Nobody reads a contract twice. The renewal date is extracted once, at review time, and then it lives somewhere — ideally somewhere that shouts at you 45 days before the cancel-by deadline, not 45 days after.

This skill maintains the renewal register and surfaces what's coming.

The register

Lives at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/renewal-register.yaml (the config directory — survives plugin updates). Each entry:

Notice transit time — alert off send_by_effective, not cancel_by_effective. A 60-day window with a certified-mail requirement is really ~55 days. The tracker that alerts on the received-by date is the tracker that misses the deadline. Compute send_by_effective = cancel_by_effective - transit_buffer_days and fire alerts (the 🔴 / 🟠 / 🟡 urgency bands in Mode 2) off send_by_effective. Mode 2's urgency column shows send_by_effective; a detail column surfaces cancel_by_effective, notice_method, and transit_buffer_days so the reader can see the delta and challenge the buffer.

Rolling renewals — the register that doesn't roll forward is the register that's right once. Store initial_term_end for the record, but compute cancel_by_* from current_term_end. When a renewal fires (the cancel window passes and no notice was given), prompt:

This contract auto-renewed on [date]. Update the register: new current_term_end is [date + renewal period], new cancel_by_effective is [computed], new send_by_effective is [computed]. Confirm?

After year one, initial_term_end is wrong and only current_term_end produces a correct cancel-by date.

Business-day check on every cancel-by date

The register's cancel-by date must be the last BUSINESS DAY on which notice is effective, not the calendar date. A calendar date that falls on a weekend is the single most common way a renewal deadline gets missed. The register catches it.

When you compute (or ingest) a cancel-by date:

1. Compute the calendar date. cancel_by_calendar = initial_term_end − notice_period_days (or whatever the clause specifies). This is the raw arithmetic.
2. Business-day roll-back keyed to governing law. The contract's governing law determines which holidays count. US: federal holidays + the state's holidays if governing law is a state. England & Wales: bank holidays. Germany: Feiertage (vary by Bundesland — ask which). Canada: federal + provincial. Singapore: public holidays. If Saturday, roll back to Friday. If Sunday, roll back to Friday. If a holiday in the governing-law jurisdiction, roll back to the prior business day. Roll BACK, never forward — forward means notice arrives after the window closes. For non-US governing law, if you can't determine the holiday calendar, flag it: "Governing law is [X] — business-day roll-back uses US federal holidays as a placeholder. Verify against the [jurisdiction] holiday calendar before relying on the effective date."
3. Check the contract's own day-counting rule. Look for "business day," "received by," "deemed received," "5:00 p.m. [local time]," or a notice-method clause. If the contract defines "business day" or specifies receipt mechanics (certified mail, email with read receipt), that definition controls. Flag any mismatch between the default roll-back and the contract's own rule.
4. Record BOTH dates in the register. cancel_by_calendar is the raw arithmetic; cancel_by_effective is the last business day on which notice is effective; cancel_by_roll_note records why they differ (e.g., "rolled back from Sunday 2026-11-01; verify against contract's business-day definition"). Every computed cancel_by_effective carries a cancel_by_provenance tag of [model calculation — verify against the notice clause] so the verify flag travels with the date, not with the surrounding prose.
5. Fire alerts off the EFFECTIVE date, not the calendar date. Urgency bands (🔴 / 🟠 / 🟡 in Mode 2) use cancel_by_effective. Mode 2 output shows cancel_by_effective in the urgency column and surfaces cancel_by_calendar and cancel_by_roll_note in a detail column where the roll-back happened, so the reader can see it and challenge it.

A Mode 2 report that prints cancel_by: 2026-11-01 (a Sunday) with no weekday and no warning is a silently wrong effective deadline. The register is the place to catch it — once, at ingest — not later, when the window has already moved.

Modes

Mode 1: Ingest a renewal (handoff from review)

When saas-msa-review or vendor-agreement-review finds a renewal clause, it hands off a record. Append it to the register. If the counterparty already has an entry, ask whether this is a replacement (renewed agreement) or an additional agreement.

Mode 2: What's coming up

Default lookback window: next 90 days.

Urgency bands are half-open intervals — a deadline lives in exactly one band. Use days-until-cancel-by (cancel_by_effective - today). Day 14, 45, and 90 each belong to exactly one band, not two; an off-by-one here puts the most-urgent items into the less-urgent bucket.

• 🔴 0–13 days (cancel-by in less than 14 days — including today)
• 🟠 14–44 days
• 🟡 45–89 days
• (everything 90+ days is outside the default lookback window; include only if the user passed --horizon beyond 90)

If the register has more than ~10 renewals in the window, or any time the user asks: offer the dashboard (see CLAUDE.md ## Outputs → Dashboard offer for data-heavy outputs). Shape the offer for this output — counts by urgency tier (🔴 / 🟠 / 🟡), a cancel-by timeline, and a sortable register with counterparty, renewal date, annual $, and owner.

Mode 3: Scan the [CLM] / e-signature tool to populate the register

If MCPs are connected and the register is empty or stale:

1. Query the [CLM] for all agreements with status "Active" and a renewal date field
2. Query DocuSign for completed envelopes in the last 24 months with "subscription" / "renewal" / "auto-renew" in metadata
3. For each hit, extract renewal mechanics and add to register
4. Flag any where the renewal date can't be determined from metadata — those need a human to read the contract

This is a one-time bulk load. After that, ingest happens at review time.

Mode 4: Missed windows (the bad news report)

Gate: accepting or declining a renewal

Tracking a renewal date is research. Acting on it — sending a notice of non-renewal, letting an auto-renewal fire, or countersigning a renewal form — is a consequential legal step.

Before proceeding to accept or decline a renewal (including sending a non-renewal notice or letting an auto-renewal run past the cancel-by date): Read ## Who's using this in ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md. If the Role is Non-lawyer:

This step has legal consequences (you're either committing to another term or terminating the relationship). Have you reviewed this with an attorney? If yes, proceed. If no, here's a brief to bring to them:

[Generate a 1-page summary: counterparty, current term end and cancel-by date, renewal price mechanism, what happens if we do nothing, alternative vendors if we want to shop, and the three things to ask the attorney before the window closes.]

If you need to find an attorney, solicitor, barrister, or other authorised legal professional: contact your professional regulator (state bar in the US, SRA/Bar Standards Board in England & Wales, Law Society in Scotland/NI/Ireland/Canada/Australia, or your jurisdiction's equivalent) for a referral service.

Do not proceed past this gate without an explicit yes.

Integration: renewal-watcher agent

The renewal-watcher agent in this plugin runs this skill on a schedule (weekly by default) and posts the "coming up" report to the channel named in ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/commercial-legal/CLAUDE.md → ## House style → where work product goes. Mode 2 is the agent's primary output.

What this skill does not do

• It does not cancel contracts. It tells you when to decide.
• It does not decide whether to renew. It surfaces the deadline and the business owner.
• It does not read contracts to find renewal dates — that happens at review time. If a contract is in the register without a renewal date, it was added manually and someone needs to fill in the gap.