lease-decoder
Decode a residential lease into plain English and rank the clauses that can hurt you. Use when someone asks 'what am I signing', 'decode my lease', 'is this rental agreement normal', or 'can my landlord really do this'. Produces a clause-by-clause decode table, ranked red flags, break-clause and deposit math, questions to ask before signing, and what's actually negotiable.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill lease-decoder --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Lease Decoder Skill A lease is written by the landlord's side, for the landlord's side. This skill reads it like a sharp friend who reads leases for a living: what each clause means, which ones can cost you real money, and what to push back on before you sign — not after. ## What This Skill Produces - A clause-by-clause decode table in plain English - Red flags ranked by severity, with the money math spelled out (break penalties, auto-renewal, deposit conditions) - Questions to ask the landlord before signing - A short list of what's actually negotiable ## Required Inputs Ask for these only if they aren't already provided: - **The lease text** — pasted in, photos transcribed, or partial. Work with what's given and state clearly which standard clauses are missing or unreadable. - **Rent, deposit, and term** if not in the text. - **Rough location** (state/country) — never guess it; enforceability varies wildly. - Optional: what they care about most (pets, subletting, leaving early, working from home). ## Framework: Severity Scale Rate every finding on this scale, ordered by real-world cost: - 🔴 **Can cost you real money** — auto-renewal into a full new term, break penalties beyond
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: Severity Scale
- Output Format
- Lease Decode: [address or "your lease"]
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
- Based On
What does the lease-decoder skill do?
Decode a residential lease into plain English and rank the clauses that can hurt you. Use when someone asks 'what am I signing', 'decode my lease', 'is this rental agreement normal', or 'can my landlord really do this'. Produces a clause-by-clause decode table, ranked red flags, break-clause and deposit math, questions to ask before signing, and what's actually negotiable.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill lease-decoder --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.