# Closing Checklist

What's blocking close, maintain the closing checklist with status, critical path, and...

- Repository: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal (9865 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-10-29
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill closing-checklist -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill closing-checklist -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill closing-checklist -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill closing-checklist -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-for-legal`

## Description

What's blocking close, maintain the closing checklist with status, critical path, and days to close. Self-updating: ingests new items from diligence findings and schedule builds, tracks status, surfaces what's blocking. Use when user says "closing checklist", "what's left to close", "checklist status", "add to the checklist", or on a scheduled status pull.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# /closing-checklist

1. Read `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/corporate-legal/deals/[code]/closing-checklist.yaml` and use the modes below.
2. If status update provided: Mode 3 (update item).
3. Otherwise Mode 4: blocking items, critical path, days to close.

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## Matter context

**Matter context.** Check `## Matter workspaces` in the practice-level CLAUDE.md. If `Enabled` is `✗` (the default for in-house users), skip the rest of this paragraph, skills use practice-level context and the matter machinery is invisible. If enabled and there is no active matter, ask: "Which matter is this for? Run `/corporate-legal:matter-workspace switch <slug>` or say `practice-level`." Load the active matter's `matter.md` for matter-specific context and overrides. Write outputs to the matter folder at `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/corporate-legal/matters/<matter-slug>/`. Never read another matter's files unless `Cross-matter context` is `on`.

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## Purpose

Deals close when the checklist is done. Everything on it, done. Nothing missing. This skill maintains the list, ingests new items as they surface from diligence, and tells the team what's blocking.

## The checklist

Lives at `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/corporate-legal/deals/[code]/closing-checklist.yaml`. Structure:

```yaml
deal_code: "Project Falcon"
target_close: [DATE]
signing_date: [DATE]
last_updated: [DATE]

conditions_precedent:
  - id: CP-001
    item: "HSR waiting period expiration"
    category: "Regulatory"
    responsible: "Buyer counsel"
    due: 2026-04-15
    status: "Filed 2026-03-01, waiting period runs"
    blocking: true
    source: "Purchase Agreement §7.1(a)"

  - id: CP-002
    item: "Acme Corp consent to assignment"
    category: "Third-party consents"
    responsible: "Target, Jane Doe"
    due: 2026-04-20
    status: "Request sent 2026-03-10, no response"
    blocking: true
    source: "Schedule 3.12(a)(4); Acme MSA §14.2"

The rest: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/blob/HEAD/corporate-legal/skills/closing-checklist/SKILL.md