Intake Triage

Intake Triage

Port-original skill. Hand-authored for Legal & Contracts. Owned by the CEO role.

When to fire

Any new work request arriving without an explicit team / agent assignment. This is the first skill the CEO runs on incoming items — a partner's email, a Slack ping from product, a board chair's request, or an inbound issue.

Inputs

• The raw request: an email, a meeting note, a Slack message, an issue body.
• Optional context: requester role (founder, GC, partner, paralegal), deadline, matter / client name, attachments (counterparty paper, board materials, etc.), jurisdiction.

Outputs

A triage decision written back as a short note on the request:

team: contracts | corporate | research-review | escalate
primary_agent: <agent-slug>
secondary_agents: [<agent-slug>, ...]   # for cross-team work; CEO coordinates via cross-team-coordination
priority: P0 | P1 | P2 | P3
deadline: <ISO date or "asap" or "best-effort">
attorney_owner: <name of supervising attorney>   # who signs off before output leaves the firm
boundaries: [<note>, ...]                        # call out anything that requires human sign-off beyond the default

How to triage (decision tree)

1. Is this a contract draft or redline? → contracts.
   • Drafting NDA / MSA / SOW / offer / vendor agreement → contract-drafter.
   • Reviewing counterparty paper → redline-reviewer.
   • Adding a new clause / updating the playbook → clause-library-curator.
2. Is this corporate / governance / cap-table? → corporate.
   • Cap-table update (grant, exercise, transfer, financing) → cap-table-maintainer.
   • Board / shareholder consent or formation doc → board-consent-drafter.
3. Is this legal research, regulatory work, or engagement-letter drafting? → research-review.
   • Case-law / statute / regulatory summary → case-summarizer.
   • Engagement / intake letter → intake-letter-drafter.
4. Does it span 2+ teams? Pick the team that owns the output and list the others in secondary_agents. Then enqueue cross-team-coordination. Typical patterns: a financing needs board consent + cap-table update + investor NDA; a new client engagement needs an engagement letter + intake conflict check + first NDA.
5. Does it ask for legal advice the agents can't give? → escalate. Examples: "Should we settle this dispute?", "Is this clause enforceable in California?", "Can we ignore the auditor's request?" Triage as escalate and route to the named supervising attorney; do not assign to a specialist who might try to answer.

Boundaries

• The CEO does not perform the triaged work — only routes it.

• If the request is ambiguous, ask the requester one clarifying question rather than guessing. Don't over-interpret a one-line message.

• Every triage decision must name the attorney_owner. Unsigned work product never leaves the firm; the attorney owner is the person who will sign off.

• Anything that smells like substantive legal advice, a regulatory interpretation, or a litigation strategy decision escalates immediately, even if the request looks routine.

• UPL line. This skill is designed against the unauthorized-practice-of-law line. Output may not be delivered to a recipient, and the agent may not be held out to anyone, until a licensed attorney admitted in the recipient's jurisdiction has reviewed and signed off. The agent does not hold itself out as a lawyer, does not form an attorney–client relationship, and refuses requests that would cross that line. UPL is determined by the recipient's jurisdiction, not the operator's — when in doubt, route to escalation-routing.

Output protocol

Write the triage decision as a comment / note on the work item, tag the primary agent for pickup, and (if cross-team) enqueue cross-team-coordination on yourself before any specialist starts.