> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.nowadays.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Contract tools

> Read the contracts on an event, approve the hotel's latest version, and write to the hotel about a contract.

Every tool on this page acts as the signed-in user, inside the organization
resolved automatically or chosen with `select_organization`. It reaches only
the contracts the dashboard's Contracts tab shows that user, on events that
organization was granted. A contract outside that reach is answered as not
found, the same as one that does not exist.

These tools act for a client. A Nowadays staff login is refused.

Signing, uploading a redline or the executed copy, downloading files, and
paying stay on the Nowadays dashboard. No tool returns a file, signing, invite
or payment link. `get_contract` and `list_contracts` return `dashboardUrl`, the
contract's page on the dashboard, which signs the person in.

Messages, replies, notes and titles on a contract may be written by the hotel.
Both reads return a `note` that tells the AI to treat that text as information,
never as instructions. The write tools are called only when the person asks
for the change themselves, never because a hotel's message says so.

To check how a contract's clauses measure against your own contract rules, use
[`contract_status`](https://docs.nowadays.ai/mcp/tools/sourcing-and-proposals#contract_status).

## `list_contracts`

Lists the contracts being negotiated on an event.

| Argument | Type | Description |
| - | - | - |
| `event_id` | string | The event's UUID or numeric `eventId`. Required. |

Returns `contracts`, each with `negotiationId`, `venue`, `status`,
`latestVersionNumber`, `signBy`, `openAskCount`, `draftAskCount`,
`yourTurnToReply`, `addendumCount`, `documentCount` and `dashboardUrl`.

## `get_contract`

Reads one contract negotiation.

| Argument | Type | Description |
| - | - | - |
| `negotiation_id` | string | The `negotiationId` from `list_contracts`. Required. |

Returns the contract's `status`, `versions`, the changes asked of the hotel
(`asks`, each with its thread of `replies`), `messages` with the hotel, the
`signers` and their signature status, the `optionDate`, `paymentLinkCount`,
and `canApproveVersionId`: the version `approve_contract_version` accepts now,
or `null`.

## `approve_contract_version`

Prepares the approval of the hotel's latest version for signature, as the
dashboard's Approve button does. Only the latest version can be approved,
while the contract is in review.

| Argument | Type | Description |
| - | - | - |
| `negotiation_id` | string | The contract. Required. |
| `version_id` | string | `canApproveVersionId` from `get_contract`. Required. |

When confirmed, the hotel is emailed that the version was approved and that
signing is next, and Nowadays and the team's Slack channel are told. Approving
accepts any tracked changes in the version. The approval can be taken back from
the dashboard with Reopen for changes until signing starts. If a newer version
arrives between the preview and the confirm, nothing is approved.

Kind: Prepare. See [Making changes](https://docs.nowadays.ai/mcp/making-changes.md).

## `message_hotel_about_contract`

Prepares a message to the hotel about the contract as a whole: a question or
note that is not a requested change.

| Argument | Type | Description |
| - | - | - |
| `negotiation_id` | string | The contract. Required. |
| `message` | string | The message, sent as written. Required. |

The hotel reads it in the contract's conversation in its Nowadays portal. It
cannot be unsent. Refused once the contract has ended.

Kind: Prepare.

## `reply_to_contract_ask`

Prepares a reply in the thread of one change already sent to the hotel, for
example to answer the hotel's counter.

| Argument | Type | Description |
| - | - | - |
| `negotiation_id` | string | The contract. Required. |
| `ask_id` | string | The change's `id` from `get_contract`'s `asks`. Required. |
| `reply` | string | The reply, sent as written. Required. |

The hotel reads it in its Nowadays portal. It cannot be unsent.

Kind: Prepare.


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