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Contract renewal and obligation tracking agent blueprint.

Extract reviewed dates and obligations into an owner-assigned action packet without changing the legal system of record.

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01 · the contract

Start from a bounded job, not a blank chat box.

trigger

A contract approaches a reviewed notice or obligation window.

owner

qualified legal reviewer

agent stops at

Legal and the business owner approve notices, renewals, terminations, or system updates.

KPI · decrease

missed reviewed notice windows (events). Count verified notice windows missed after assignment.

inputs

Evidence the run may read

  • Verified contract attributes
  • Approved obligation taxonomy
  • Owner and calendar policy
outputs

Artifacts the run must produce

  • Dated obligation list
  • Owner and evidence map
  • Renewal decision brief
02 · topology

Small specialists. Named handoffs. One accountable decision.

Each stage produces an artifact another stage can inspect. The final node is a person, not an autonomous write to an external system.

  1. 01

    intake

    Validate and normalize the contract renewal and obligation tracking inputs.

  2. 02

    obligation compiler

    Produce the dated obligation list.

  3. 03

    owner mapper

    Produce the owner and evidence map.

  4. 04

    legal operations reviewer

    Challenge the contract renewal and obligation tracking result and prepare an approval packet.

  5. 05

    qualified legal reviewer

    Legal and the business owner approve notices, renewals, terminations, or system updates.

intakevalidated input packetobligation-compiler
obligation-compilerDated obligation listowner-mapper
owner-mapperOwner and evidence maplegal-operations-reviewer
legal-operations-reviewerapproval packet with evidence referenceshuman-approver
03 · authority

Grant the run only what this case needs.

Source material is read-only. Drafts land in a case-specific output path. Tools may read or propose; the human gate owns the external write.

read

case inputs

workspace/legal/renewal-obligation-tracking/inputs/**

Read only the evidence attached to this workflow instance.

write-output

case outputs

workspace/legal/renewal-obligation-tracking/outputs/**

Write drafts and evidence artifacts without modifying source records.

invoke-scoped-tool

approved tools

legal:renewal-obligation-tracking:read-or-propose

Invoke only tools explicitly granted for this run; external writes remain gated.

required human decision

Legal and the business owner approve notices, renewals, terminations, or system updates.

Decision owner: qualified legal reviewer.

04 · implementation

A private, bounded starting manifest.

The blueprint starts private, caps its DAG, disables replanning, and exposes no public endpoint. Add only the tools and data adapters this workflow has approved.

a2a.yamlsafe starting point
name: legal-renewal-obligation-tracking
version: 0.1.0
entrypoint: agent:BlueprintAgent
expose:
  public: false
composition:
  planning: deterministic_dag
  max_nodes: 6
  max_parallel: 1
  max_replans: 0
05 · acceptance test

Pass only with evidence.

  1. 01

    Evidence traceability

    Every material conclusion cites an input artifact or a scoped tool result from this run.

  2. 02

    Every date and obligation points to verified contract language and accounts for reviewed amendments.

    Every date and obligation points to verified contract language and accounts for reviewed amendments.

  3. 03

    Approval boundary

    The run stops at a proposal and records the human decision before any external side effect.

failure containment

Stop small. Preserve the evidence.

The executed version, amendment order, notice method, or accountable owner is uncertain.

Containment: Return a partial result with unresolved items; do not broaden scope or perform an external write.

Operator: Attach the missing evidence, narrow the brief, or explicitly approve a new scoped run.

A required input or tool grant is unavailable.

Containment: Stop the affected branch and preserve completed artifacts in the case output workspace.

Operator: Grant only the missing resource or continue with that branch marked out of scope.

06 · proof

Sign the run facts. Keep money in the billing ledger.

Current platform receipts sign caller identity or classification, skill, bounded input evidence, verified grant IDs when present, outcome or result preview, and timing. Optional file, tool, artifact, handoff, evaluation, and review fields require separate instrumentation and are not populated by default. Price, fees, payouts, and later human approvals remain separate platform records.

The example uses only fields populated by the current platform sealing paths. It is illustrative, not a record of a real customer run.

ExecutionReceipt · selected fieldsEd25519 token
{
  "receipt_id": "rcpt_01J...",
  "schema_version": 1,
  "agent_name": "legal-renewal-obligation-tracking",
  "caller": "user:workflow-owner",
  "task_id": "case_renewal_obligation_tracking",
  "skill_name": "renewal_obligation_tracking",
  "input_hash": "4d7c...9a2f",
  "grant_ids": [
    "grt_case_inputs",
    "grt_tool_propose"
  ],
  "status": "ok",
  "result_preview": "Output prepared: Dated obligation list. Human decision remains separate.",
  "elapsed_ms": 4218
}
put the pattern to work

Start private. Scope the authority. Require the decision.

Deploy the workflow as a bounded internal agent, verify its outputs and the receipt fields actually emitted, then expand only the scopes your acceptance test proves it needs.