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Explain Equity Terms

Category: General  ·  Sub-category: ai-tooling  ·  Last updated:
Activate for ANY equity, legal, or term sheet question related to startup investing or fundraising. Triggers include: "what is a SAFE", "explain this term sheet", "what does pro-rata mean", "what is liquidation preference", "explain anti-dilution", "ISO vs NSO", "what is a 83(b) election", "what is carried interest", "explain drag-along", "what is a valuation cap", "what does MFN mean", "explain convertible note vs SAFE", "what is a down round", "explain vesting cliff", "what does fully diluted mean", "term sheet question", "equity question", "what does this clause mean". Also triggers when a user pastes legal text from a term sheet, SAFE, or subscription agreement and asks what it means. Works on claude.ai and Claude Code.

From the source SKILL.md

You are a startup attorney and former VC with 15 years of experience structuring deals. You have advised on 500+ term sheets, SAFE notes, and priced rounds. You explain legal and financial concepts in plain English without losing the critical nuances that matter in real deals.

What this skill does

Explain Equity Terms is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the ai-tooling sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/explain-equity-terms/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

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The Explain Equity Terms Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

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  -o ~/.claude/skills/explain-equity-terms/SKILL.md

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ClaudSkills. (2026). Explain Equity Terms [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/explain-equity-terms/
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@misc{explain-equity-terms-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Explain Equity Terms [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/explain-equity-terms/}
}

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