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OpenAgreements

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Fill standard legal agreement templates and get signable DOCX files. OpenAgreements includes 40+ templates across NDAs, cloud service agreements, employment docs, contractor agreements, SAFEs, and NVCA financing documents.

Works with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and local MCP or CLI workflows.

Contents

- Install
- Quick Start
- Available Skills
- Available Templates
- Packages
- Documentation
- Privacy
- See Also
- Contributing
- Built With OpenAgreements
- License

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> Demo: Claude fills a Common Paper Mutual NDA in under 2 minutes. Sped up for brevity.

Install

Agent Skill (recommended)

npx skills add open-agreements/open-agreements

Claude Hosted MCP

claude mcp add --transport http open-agreements https://openagreements.ai/api/mcp

Gemini CLI Extension

gemini extensions install https://github.com/open-agreements/open-agreements

CLI

npm install -g open-agreements

Or run directly with zero install:

npx -y open-agreements@latest list

Quick Start

With Claude Code

Ask Claude:

Fill the Common Paper mutual NDA for my company

Claude can discover templates, interview you for field values, and render a signed-ready DOCX.

With the CLI

# See all available templates
open-agreements list
Fill a template from a JSON data file
open-agreements fill common-paper-mutual-nda -d values.json -o my-nda.docx
Fill with inline values
open-agreements fill common-paper-mutual-nda --set party_1_name="Acme Corp" --set governing_law="Delaware"

Example Prompts

- "Draft an NDA for our construction subcontractor"
- "Create a consulting agreement for our insurance agency"
- "Fill the independent contractor agreement for a freelance designer"
- "Generate a SAFE with a $5M valuation cap"

What Happens

1. The agent runs list --json to discover templates and their fields.
2. It interviews you for field values grouped by section.
3. It runs fill <template> to render a DOCX preserving the source formatting.
4. You review and sign the output document.

Available Skills

Agreement Drafting And Filling

| Skill | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| open-agreements | Fill standard legal agreement templates (NDAs, cloud service agreements, SAFEs) and produce signable DOCX files. Supports Common Paper, Bonterms, and Y Combinator templates. Use when the user needs to draft a legal agreement, create an NDA, fill a contract template, or generate a SAFE. Can also send agreements for electronic signature via DocuSign. |
| nda | Draft and fill NDA templates — mutual NDA, one-way NDA, confidentiality agreement. Produces signable DOCX files from Common Paper and Bonterms standard forms. Use when user says "NDA," "non-disclosure agreement," "confidentiality agreement," "mutual NDA," or "one-way NDA." |
| cloud-service-agreement | Draft and fill SaaS agreement templates — cloud contract, MSA, order form, software license, pilot agreement, design partner agreement. Includes variants with SLAs and AI terms. Produces signable DOCX from Common Paper standard forms. Use when user says "SaaS agreement," "cloud contract," "MSA," "order form," "software license," "pilot agreement," or "design partner agreement." |
| services-agreement | Draft and fill services agreement templates — consulting contract, contractor agreement, SOW, statement of work, professional services agreement. Produces signable DOCX files from Common Paper and Bonterms standard forms. Use when user says "consulting contract," "contractor agreement," "SOW," "statement of work," "services agreement," or "freelancer contract." |
| employment-contract | Draft and fill employment agreement templates — offer letter, IP assignment, PIIA, confidentiality acknowledgement. Produces signable DOCX files from OpenAgreements standard forms for hiring employees. Use when user says "offer letter," "employment agreement," "PIIA," "IP assignment," "hire someone," or "onboarding paperwork." |
| data-privacy-agreement | Draft and fill data privacy agreement templates — DPA, data processing agreement, GDPR, HIPAA BAA, business associate agreement, AI addendum. Produces signable DOCX files from Common Paper standard forms. Use when user says "DPA," "data processing agreement," "HIPAA BAA," "business associate agreement," or "AI addendum." |
| safe | Draft and fill Y Combinator SAFE templates — valuation cap, discount, MFN, pro rata side letter. Standard startup fundraising documents for convertible equity. Produces signable DOCX files. Use when user says "SAFE," "simple agreement for future equity," "YC SAFE," "valuation cap," "seed round documents," or "fundraising paperwork." |
| venture-financing | Draft and fill NVCA model documents — stock purchase agreement, certificate of incorporation, investors rights agreement, voting agreement, ROFR, co-sale, indemnification, management rights letter. Series A and

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