Contract Field Extractor

Contract Field Extractor Skill

Use this skill to extract configured fields from contract text that is already available in the conversation or supplied by another system. This skill does not read files, parse PDF/DOCX bytes, OCR images, or inspect uploads directly.

Scope

Use this skill for:

• Extracting contract parties, contract name, contract number, amount, currency, signing date, effective date, expiry date, term, payment terms, renewal terms, breach clauses, jurisdiction, contacts, and other configured fields.
• Producing JSON, Markdown, or CSV-ready structured contract extraction results.
• Preparing contract ledger rows for later database insertion or manual review.
• Returning confidence, evidence, source location, status, and notes for every configured field.

Do not use this skill to:

• Parse uploaded files directly.
• OCR scanned contracts or screenshots.
• Provide final legal advice, enforceability conclusions, or legal risk certification.
• Invent missing contract content.
• Write database records directly without a separate database handoff and confirmation.

Workflow

1. Confirm contract text is available. It must be pasted text, prior chat context, or parsed contract content supplied by another system.
2. Confirm the configured field list is available. Do not invent a field list for a production extraction request.
3. If the user asks to use a built-in field template, read field-templates.md and use the exact template schema.
4. If contract text or field configuration is missing, call request_user_input.
5. Read field-schema-contract.md before interpreting field configuration.
6. Read extraction-rules.md before extracting values.
7. Extract every configured field, including required fields. Missing required fields must still appear in the output.
8. When no contract value exists and no explicit default is configured, return value: "未提取到" and extraction_status: "missing".
9. When no contract value exists but the field has an explicit configured default and the rules allow using it, return that default with extraction_status: "defaulted".
10. Read confidence-rules.md and assign confidence for every field.
11. Read output-format.md and return the structured result in the requested format. Default to JSON in the answer when no export is requested.
12. If the user asks to export, save, download, or generate a contract ledger file, read contract-ledger-export.md and call generate_file.
13. If the user asks to write results to a database, read database-handoff.md; prepare a reviewed mapping and ask for confirmation before routing to any database skill.

Clarification Workflow

Call request_user_input instead of writing a plain clarification when missing information blocks reliable extraction.

Ask when:

• No contract text or parsed contract content is available.
• No field list is available and the user did not choose a built-in field template.
• Field definitions are missing required details such as key, label, or type.
• The user asks to export but the output format is ambiguous and cannot be inferred.
• The user asks to write to a database but database/table/field mapping is unclear.

Example request_user_input payload:

{
  "message": "I can extract contract fields, but need the contract text and field configuration first.",
  "questions": [
    {
      "id": "contract_text",
      "question": "Please provide the parsed contract text or confirm which available contract text should be used."
    },
    {
      "id": "field_list",
      "question": "Please provide the field list, or choose a field template.",
      "options": [
        { "label": "basic contract info" },
        { "label": "parties and contacts" },
        { "label": "amount and payment" },
        { "label": "term and performance" },
        { "label": "risk and clauses" }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

After calling request_user_input, stop the turn and wait for the user's answer.

References

Read the relevant references before producing final output:

Output Contract

Each configured field must produce one result object:

• field_key
• field_label
• value
• normalized_value
• value_type
• extraction_status
• confidence
• evidence
• source_location
• notes

When no value is explicitly present in the contract and no explicit default is configured, return:

• value: 未提取到
• normalized_value: empty string
• extraction_status: missing
• confidence: 0
• evidence: empty string

When no value is explicitly present in the contract but an explicit default is configured and allowed, return:

• value: the configured default value
• normalized_value: normalized configured default when applicable
• extraction_status: defaulted
• confidence: 0 unless the default rule says otherwise
• evidence: empty string
• notes: explain that the value came from configuration, not contract text

Constraints

• Do not parse uploaded files directly. Rely on contract text already supplied by the platform or another system.
• Do not fabricate fields, values, dates, amounts, parties, clauses, or legal conclusions.
• Do not omit a configured field just because it is missing in the contract.
• Do not fill missing required fields with guesses. Use 未提取到 when there is no contract value and no explicit default.
• Do not output a value without evidence unless the field used an explicit default value.
• Do not treat a default value as extracted contract text. Use extraction_status: "defaulted".
• Do not write to a database directly from this skill.
• For legal, financial, and compliance use, state that extracted results should be reviewed before use.