# Draft Markup Of Counterparty Lease Agreement > Guides tenant-side markup and commentary of a proposed lease by anchoring each redline position to the applicable playbook and deal summary, preserving the commercial terms the user provided, and organizing the output with prioritized cover commentary. - Skill: `finchipaiorg/draft-markup-of-counterparty-lease-agreement` (Agent Skill) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add finchipaiorg/draft-markup-of-counterparty-lease-agreement` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/finchipaiorg/draft-markup-of-counterparty-lease-agreement/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Coding & Dev Tools - Author: FinchipAIOrg (https://skillmd.com/u/finchipaiorg) - Updated: 2026-09-22 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/finchipaiorg/draft-markup-of-counterparty-lease-agreement --- # Skill: Draft Markup of Counterparty Lease Agreement — Redlined Lease with Commentary ## 1. Subject-matter triage - Treat the landlord draft, tenant playbook, deal summary, and any exhibit set as a single integrated lease package. - First identify whether the request is a pure markup, a markup plus issue list, or a markup with business-summary overlay; in this task, the primary work is a tenant-side redline with commentary and a prioritized cover summary. - If the package contains multiple related lease documents, enumerate them before editing and keep base-lease changes synchronized with exhibits, riders, work letters, and rules-and-regulations attachments. - If rent commencement, tenant improvement completion, or occupancy timing is conditioned on another document, trace the dependency chain before redlining timing language. ## 2. Failure modes the skill is correcting - Redlining against generic tenant-favorable defaults instead of the tenant’s actual playbook, causing a mismatch with negotiated priorities and walk-away positions. - Failing to carry through the deal summary, so agreed economics, business terms, and timing assumptions are left out of the markup. - Producing a marked lease without bracketed rationale, leaving the counterparty and internal reviewer unable to see why a change is demanded. - Treating stylistic redlines as sufficient, even though the exported document may lose visual formatting and the changes become opaque. - Omitting a prioritized cover summary, which deprives the client of a quick read on what must move, what can trade, and what can be accepted. - Letting minor edits accumulate into a broader shift in expense allocation, control rights, or default risk. - Marking the base lease but not conforming linked exhibits, which creates internal inconsistency and negotiation friction. ## 3. Legal frameworks / domain conventions that apply - Lease economics: confirm whether the form operates as gross, net, modified gross, or another hybrid, and test expense-bearing provisions against the tenant’s required allocation. - Operating expense and tax pass-throughs: review exclusions, audit rights, caps, management fees, amortization treatment, and reconciliation mechanics against the playbook. - Tenant improvement mechanics: verify allowance amount, use deadline, disbursement conditions, retainage, lien protection, and unused-funds treatment against the deal summary. - Commencement and rent abatement: compare delivery conditions, substantial completion standards, punch-list rights, and abatement triggers to the negotiated business deal. - Casualty and condemnation: check restoration obligations, termination rights, award allocation, and abatement timing for tenant protection and occupancy continuity. - Assignment and subletting: assess consent standard, affiliated transfers, recapture rights, profit sharing, and change-of-control treatment for business flexibility. - SNDA and lender protections: ensure non-disturbance and attornment language preserves tenancy after foreclosure and is not conditioned away by lender discretion. - Default, notice, and cure: verify notice mechanics, cure periods, lender notice rights where applicable, and any self-help or offset rights. - Use, exclusivity, and operating covenants: test whether the permitted use and related restrictions fit the contemplated medical office operation and expansion needs. - Title, estoppel, and financing-related provisions: ensure landlord deliverables do not create hidden operational or financing constraints. ## 4. Analytical scaffolds - Compare each substantive article of the proposed lease to the playbook and mark every deviation that matters commercially or legally. - For each proposed revision, add a concise bracketed rationale that explains the playbook basis and the business reason for the change. - Use robust textual change markers in addition to any tracked changes, so the modification remains readable if formatting is stripped in export. - Assign each issue a uniform severity label from a stated ordinal scale and use that label consistently across the markup and cover summary. - When multiple lease forms, exhibits, or schedules are in scope, enumerate the items first and then review each one against the same tenant positions. - For every issue noted, state the source of the governing position, the clause interaction, and the practical consequence if the landlord’s language stays unchanged. - Distinguish true walk-away items from negotiable points and routine cleanup, and avoid diluting the highest-priority items with low-value edits. - If the lease contains interlocking timing provisions, assess the sequence of conditions precedent, notice obligations, and funding or occupancy milestones before finalizing the redline. ## 5. Vertical / structural / temporal relationships - Base lease and exhibits must read together; a change in one may require a conforming change in the other. - If the tenant improvement allowance affects commencement, rent-free periods, or delivery dates, align those provisions so the trigger sequence is internally consistent. - If use rights, exclusivity, or expansion rights depend on future space or future approvals, preserve the trigger language and notice timing across the whole package. - If casualty, condemnation, or default provisions interact with financing or subordination language, keep the lender-related protections and tenant remedies aligned. ## 6. Output structure conventions - Primary deliverable first: produce the redlined lease as the operative document, with changes shown in a way that remains legible in plain text and exportable to .docx. - For every substantive edit, include both the change marker and a short bracketed rationale comment tied to the playbook or deal summary. - Use conventional legal markup phrasing and do not rely only on visual formatting to signal deletions, insertions, or substitutions. - Include a prioritized cover summary that groups issues by severity, highlights the most important negotiation points, and gives a brief rationale for each top-tier item. - The cover summary should end with clear recommended actions for the deal team and reviewer, each phrased as an imperative and tied to the appropriate role and timing milestone. - Keep the redline consistent with the deal economics; do not leave a lease provision at odds with the agreed business terms. - Before finishing, confirm the primary file is complete and contains operative lease language, not a high-level description of the lease.