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Delay Claim Letter
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-14
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-construction
Draft a construction delay notice or delay claim letter with contract clause citation, cause classification, and critical-path impact narrative. Use when asked to write a delay notice, put the owner or GC on notice of delay, draft a time extension request, respond to weather or owner-caused delay, or paper a delay for a claim. Produces a notice/claim letter with the excusable-compensable classification, critical-path impact narrative, quantum placeholder, reservation of rights, and a records-preservation list.
What to give it
▸The delay event — what happened, when it started, whether it's ongoing
▸Contract notice provisions — clause number, days allowed, required form/recipient (the single most important input)
▸Who caused it / what class of event — owner action, design issue, weather, third party, force majeure
▸Schedule facts — affected activities, whether they're on the critical path, current data date and completion forecast
▸Recipient and contractual relationship — (owner, GC, CM) and any notices already given
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Notice clause cited by number, with the deadline math shown (event date + allowed days)
✓Cause classified on the matrix, and the relief requested matches the classification
✓Impact narrative names critical-path activities and dates — not just elapsed calendar days
✓No committed quantum in a notice; reservation of rights covers supplementation, disruption, and acceleration
✓Tone is factual and professional — the letter will be Exhibit A someday
✓Records-preservation list issued to the team alongside the letter, and the counsel-routing line is present
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not wait for full impact analysis before noticing — notice preserves rights; quantify later
Do not request money for a time-only (excusable, non-compensable) event — it burns credibility
Do not narrate delay against the calendar — tie it to critical-path activities or expect denial
Do not put a hard number in a notice letter — you'll be held to your worst early guess
Do not editorialise about the owner's competence — facts, clause, impact, relief, reservation; nothing else
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
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