clause-comparatorlisted

# Clause Comparator ## What this does Takes the same clause, or the same clause type, as it appears in two or more places and reports what is different — mechanically, in the wording, and substantively, in what the clause now does. It is a comparison tool, not a review: it does not grade an agreement's overall risk, and it does not draft new wording for a clause that has no comparator (that is redline-proposer). It compares what it is given; it does not supply a "market standard" from memory to compare against. ## Before you start **What is being compared, and against what.** At minimum this means: how many items are being compared, where each is drawn from (document name, version or date, clause number), and whether the comparator is another draft of the same agreement, a different agreement, or a standard the user is supplying. This is blocking — do not start diffing until you know what the two (or more) things actually are. **The comparator text itself, where it is a "standard".** If the user asks to compare a clause against their firm's standard, a market position, or "what's usual", that standard has to arrive as actual text — a template clause, a precedent document, a pasted example. Do not reconstruct a market-standard clause from memory to use as the baseline; general commercial understanding of what a clause "usually" says is not a substitute for the user's own precedent. If no comparator text is supplied and none is asked for, say the comparison is limited to t