What do I need to use First Client Contract?

The deal; The scope edges; The work's nature; Jurisdiction, loosely.

Is First Client Contract free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

First Client Contract

Q: How do I know the First Client Contract output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Scope enumerates deliverables — nothing described by vibe; Revisions and meetings carry numbers; the everything-else-is-quoted sentence appears; Payment includes deposit, schedule, terms, and the late line; Ownership states its timing (payment-linked) and the portfolio right.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-sidehustle

Put your first client agreement in writing — the eight clauses a simple service contract must have, in plain language a non-lawyer can use, with the blanks filled from your actual deal. Use when asked write my first client contract, what should a freelance agreement include, my client wants to start without a contract, or review this simple services agreement. Produces the plain-language agreement draft with the eight load-bearing clauses, the per-clause reasoning, the how-to-send-it script, and the when-this-needs-a-lawyer triggers.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸The deal — what's being delivered, by when, for how much, paid how (the draft is only as real as these)

▸The scope edges — revisions included? Meetings? Support after delivery? The extras that will otherwise be argued about later get written now (chain: [scope-creep-response](../scope-creep-response/SKILL.md) is cheaper to never need)

▸The work's nature — creative work makes the IP clause load-bearing; ongoing work makes termination load-bearing; the draft weights accordingly

▸Jurisdiction, loosely — a governing-law line and any local formality get flagged verify-locally; the skill drafts structure, not local law

✅ 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.

✓Scope enumerates deliverables — nothing described by vibe

✓Revisions and meetings carry numbers; the everything-else-is-quoted sentence appears

✓Payment includes deposit, schedule, terms, and the late line

✓Ownership states its timing (payment-linked) and the portfolio right

✓The lawyer triggers are assessed against this actual deal, not just listed

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not draft legalese — plain language honest parties both read beats boilerplate nobody does

Do not start work on "we'll sort the paperwork later" — the deposit + signature IS the sorting

Do not leave revisions uncounted — "reasonable revisions" is a fight with a fuse lit

Do not transfer IP before payment completes without flagging the choice being made

Do not pretend this scales to every deal — the triggers list is load-bearing honesty

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-mcp

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