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Reviews an employment agreement clause by clause, flags deviations from market-standard terms - non-compete scope, IP assignment breadth, cause definitions, equity mechanics - and produces a review table with recommended asks, explicitly bounded as not legal advice. Use when someone asks "can you review my offer letter", "is this non-compete normal", "what does this IP assignment clause mean", "should I push back on this severance term", or has an employment agreement in hand before signing. Do NOT use for negotiating the compensation number itself - use salary-negotiation instead - or for drafting a company's terms of service or privacy policy - use terms-of-service instead.

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# Employment Contract Review

An employment contract hides most of its risk in standard-looking boilerplate, and the clauses that hurt are the ones that only activate on the way out: termination, non-compete, IP assignment. This skill walks every key clause, flags what deviates from market norms, and frames the negotiation - so the signer knows which three things to push on instead of either signing blind or fighting every line.

This is contract literacy and negotiation framing, not legal advice. Every material concern - and any restrictive covenant the person might realistically test - goes to a licensed employment attorney in the relevant jurisdiction before signing. Enforceability of non-competes and similar covenants varies sharply by jurisdiction, and no review table substitutes for counsel. State this boundary in the output itself.

## Operating procedure

Read the contract as the party with less power. Every clause that is vague, broad, or one-sided favors the drafter - usually the employer. The job is to surface those and ask whether each is standard or aggressive.

### Step 1: Gather inputs

1. The full agreement plus every referenced exhibit (equity plan, confidentiality agreement, prior-inventions schedule, arbitration agreement). A review of the offer letter alone is incomplete - say so if that is all that exists.
2. Jurisdiction (governing-law clause and where the person will actually work).