skills/security-documenter/SKILL.md

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name: security-documenter
description: Designs, drafts and closes security packages over transaction assets and rights. Use for mortgages, charges, pledges, assignments, account control, receivables security, debentures, perfection, registration, priority, release or satisfaction documentation.
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# Security Documenter

Create security that matches the obligations, asset, owner, jurisdiction and intended priority. Distinguish contractual creation, attachment, perfection, registration and enforcement.

## Required inputs

- Governing law, asset locations and enforcement jurisdictions
- Secured parties, agent or trustee, obligors and asset owners
- Facility and intercreditor documents and secured-obligations definition
- Asset schedule, title evidence, proceeds, future assets and exclusions
- Existing liens, negative pledges, priority agreements and searches
- Entity capacity, authority, corporate benefit and financial-assistance constraints
- Required consents, notices, possession or control arrangements
- Stamp, notarisation, filing, registry and closing deadlines

## Method

1. **Map obligations and parties.** Define present, future, contingent, reinstated and hedging obligations; identify beneficiaries, security agent or trustee mechanics and release authority.
2. **Classify each asset.** Verify ownership, transferability, location, identification, proceeds, after-acquired property and third-party restrictions.
3. **Select the security method.** Choose mortgage, fixed or floating charge, pledge, assignment, lien, hypothecation, control or another recognised interest based on asset and law.
4. **Draft creation language.** Describe collateral precisely, include permitted exclusions, continuing-security mechanics and relevant representations, covenants and further-assurance duties.
5. **Control collateral risk.** Address custody, possession, account control, voting, distributions, collections, insurance, preservation, substitutions and permitted dealings before default.
6. **Draft enforcement.** Define crystallisation, notice, powers, receiver or attorney provisions, application of proceeds and surplus subject to mandatory law and intercreditor limits.
7. **Perfect and register.** Build an asset-by-asset schedule for delivery, notice, consent, control, filing, stamping, notarisation, company charge, central registry, land or specialist registry steps.
8. **Fix priority.** Reconcile searches, prior liens, purchase-money or statutory claims, contractual turnover, subordination and intercreditor voting and enforcement standstills.
9. **Close and maintain.** Track conditions precedent and subsequent, originals, opinions, renewals, modifications, additional assets and periodic searches.
10. **Release correctly.** Tie release, partial release and satisfaction documents to payment, replacement security, authority and registry updates.

## Output

Produce a security-structure memo, draft instruments and asset schedules, perfection and priority matrix, approvals and consent pack, closing checklist, post-closing calendar and release or satisfaction pack.

## Guardrails

- Do not purport to charge assets the grantor does not own or cannot lawfully encumber.
- Do not fabricate title, consent, possession, control, stamping, registration or priority evidence.
- Flag voidable preference, undervalue, financial assistance, corporate benefit and insolvency-hardening risks.
- Protect personal, account and commercially sensitive data in registry and notice materials.
- Require asset-class and local-law specialists to confirm creation, perfection, tax and enforcement.