---\nname: \"gc-review\"\ndescription: \"/cs:gc-review <plan> — General Counsel interrogation of contracts, IP, regulatory, term sheets, and employment-law surface. Use when reviewing a term sheet before signing, redlining a customer MSA, or checking IP assignment and regulatory exposure on a new product.\"\n---\n\n# /cs:gc-review — General Counsel Forcing Questions\n\n**Command:** `/cs:gc-review <plan>`\n\nThe General Counsel lens. Six questions before any contract, term sheet, IP move, or regulatory commitment. This is a lane gstack has zero of — and one where a single missed clause costs more than a year of engineering.\n\n> ⚠️ **Not legal advice.** This command surfaces the right questions to ask before talking to outside counsel. Always engage qualified counsel for binding decisions.\n\n## When to Run\n\n- Before signing any contract > $100K or > 1 year\n- Before issuing equity (employee grants, advisor grants)\n- Before a term sheet response\n- Before entering a regulated market (healthcare, fintech, defense)\n- Before any open-source license decision in core IP\n- Before an M&A LOI\n\n## The Six GC Questions\n\n### 1. IP Ownership\n**Who owns the IP being created or shared in this transaction?**\n- Work-for-hire vs license vs joint.\n- For employees and contractors: written IP assignment in place?\n- For OSS: license compatibility checked?\n\n### 2. Liability & Indemnity\n**What\'s the liability cap, and what\'s carved out from it?**\n- Standard cap: 12 months of fees.\n- Carve-outs: IP infringement, data breach, willful misconduct.\n- Mutual indemnity desirable.\n\n### 3. Data Processing\n**What personal data is involved, and is a DPA in place?**\n- GDPR / CCPA scope?\n- Subprocessor flow-down?\n- Data residency requirements?\n\n### 4. Termination & Renewal\n**What\'s the termination right, what\'s the notice period, and what\'s auto-renew?**\n- Termination for convenience vs cause.\n- Notice period (30 / 60 / 90 days).\n- Auto-renewal trap?\n\n### 5. Regulatory Surface\n**Does this expose the company to a new regulatory regime?**\n- Healthcare → HIPAA.\n- Fintech → BSA/AML, state money-transmitter.\n- Medical device → FDA, MDR, ISO 13485.\n- Data → GDPR, CCPA, state breach laws.\n\n### 6. Employment / Equity\n**If this is a hire or contractor: jurisdiction, classification, equity grant, IP assignment?**\n- Misclassification risk?\n- Equity vesting standard (4-year, 1-year cliff)?\n- Acceleration triggers?\n- 409A current?\n\n## Workflow\n\n1. Read the contract / term sheet end to end\n2. Run the six questions\n3. Identify the top-3 issues that need outside counsel review\n4. Apply the verdict\n\n## Output Format\n\n```markdown\n# GC Review: <plan>\n**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD\n\n## Document\n- Type: <contract / term sheet / grant / DPA>\n- Counterparty: <name>\n- $ value or scope: <amount>\n\n## Issues\n| # | Issue | Risk | Recommendation |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| 1 | <e.g., uncapped IP indemnity> | HIGH | Cap at fees paid, mutual |\n| 2 | <e.g., 5-year auto-renew> | MED | 1-year max, 60-day notice |\n| 3 | <e.g., no DPA, EU data> | HIGH | Require DPA before sign |\n\n## Regulatory Trigger\n- New regime triggered? <yes/no>\n- Specific frameworks: <HIPAA / GDPR / etc.>\n\n## Outside Counsel Action Items\n- [ ] <specific item 1>\n- [ ] <specific item 2>\n- [ ] <specific item 3>\n\n## Verdict\n🟢 SIGN AS-IS (rare)\n🟡 NEGOTIATE — counter on top-3 issues\n🔴 DO NOT SIGN — material risk\n```\n\n## Routing\n\n- `/cs:ciso-review` — for any data-touching contract\n- `/cs:cfo-review` — for any commitment > 1 year or > 1% of revenue\n- `/cs:decide` — log the verdict after outside counsel review\n\n## Workflow Integration with `general-counsel-advisor` skill\n\nSince v2.5.1, this command is backed by a full skill at `../../../skills/general-counsel-advisor/` with two Python tools:\n\n```bash\n# Automated contract scan (12 founder-killer patterns)\npython ../../../skills/general-counsel-advisor/scripts/contract_risk_scanner.py path/to/contract.txt\n\n# Term sheet scoring (0-100 founder-friendliness)\npython ../../../skills/general-counsel-advisor/scripts/term_sheet_analyzer.py path/to/term_sheet.json\n```\n\nThe `cs-general-counsel-advisor` agent orchestrates both tools plus 3 references (contracts playbook, IP + regulatory, term sheet decoder).\n\n## Related\n\n- Skill: [`general-counsel-advisor`](../../../skills/general-counsel-advisor/SKILL.md) — full skill with Python tools + references\n- Agent: [`cs-general-counsel-advisor`](../../agents/cs-general-counsel-advisor.md)\n- Compliance execution: `../../../../ra-qm-team/`\n- Adjacent: `../../../skills/ma-playbook/`\n\n---\n\n**Version:** 1.0.0\n