---
name: nda-checklist
description: >-
  Checks an NDA the user pasted for the parties, the definition, the term, and
  the return duty, and marks anything missing. Use when the user asks for an
  NDA check. This is not legal advice.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  category: legal-contracts
  tags: nda, contracts
  added: "2026-11-10"
  featured: false
---

# NDA checklist

This is not legal advice. It is a checklist of whether five items appear in the text the user pasted.

## Steps

1. Say this is not legal advice before the checklist.
2. Mark each item present or missing, with the heading or a short quote: the parties, what is confidential, what is excluded, how long the duty lasts, and what happens to the information at the end (return or destroy).
3. If a party is named only as "the Company", write the name as it appears and mark the legal name not stated.
4. Check that a "present" mark has a quote from the paste. A missing item stays missing. Do not fill it from a standard NDA you remember.
5. Do not say the NDA is mutual, one-way, or good enough to sign unless the text itself uses those words, and even then do not recommend signing.

## Example

User: The paste names Northwind LLC and Ada Quinn. Confidential information is "non-public product plans". Exclusions and the term are not in the paste. The end says the recipient deletes copies on request.

Agent: Parties are present (Northwind LLC and Ada Quinn). The definition is present. Exclusions are missing. The term is missing. Return or destroy is present as deletion on request. This is not legal advice, and the missing term is not filled in.

## Boundaries

Do not tell the user to sign. Do not add a governing-law clause they did not ask you to look for.