Signature is where obligations start and where attention stops
Contracts are heavily negotiated and then submitted. Once the deal is closed, the commitments inside it disappear from view: notice requirements, reporting obligations, service levels, audit rights, and restrictions on what you may do.
No one has ownership because it was never granted. The person who owned the commercial side has now left. Legal is not active. The duty sits in a clause that someone carefully negotiated eighteen months ago.
Half the job is identifying the obligations. The other half is deciding which people in your organization are actually responsible for meeting them, and for that you need to know how your teams are structured, not what the contract says.
Timing differs significantly. For example, a single notification, a recurring requirement, and a permanent behavioral restriction all need different tracking methods. Treating them the same way produces reminders for things that cannot be completed.
How the agent is built in Agent Studio
The agent maps ownership. Prompt skills reflect your organization's structure: which team is responsible for reporting, who owns security commitments, and where operational service levels sit.
The system prompt requires that each obligation be classified by type: one-off, recurring, conditional, or standing. Tracking differs completely by type, and attaching a due date to a standing restriction would be a category error.
It also requires a quote from the contract rather than a summary, because the exact wording matters.
A flow provides the material. The clause-extraction flow passes the structured contracts to the Agent Chat node.
Airtable or Notion registers the owner, type, source clause, and trigger. A separate flow then does the tracking, because tracking is scheduling and needs no judgment.
Slack routes any obligation that the agent cannot confidently assign to an owner to legal, rather than guessing at the owner. The interesting commitments usually appear in that list.
The agent lists the obligations. It does not give advice about compliance with them.
What this agent is built from
- Prompt skills: hold your organizational shape, so obligations can be assigned to real owners.
- System prompt: classifies by type, because one-off, recurring, conditional, and standing track differently.
- System prompt: quotes the obligation from the contract rather than summarizing it.
- Agent Chat (Util): receives structured contracts from the clause-extraction flow.
- Airtable (Integration): holds the obligation register. Notion fits the same slot.
- Slack (Communication): routes unassignable obligations to legal instead of guessing.
- When an ActionFlow is enough: If you are tracking an existing register, that is a workflow. Building the register from the contracts is the agent.
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