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Prior Art Search

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robthepcguy·vlatest·other·MIT

Quickly identifies relevant patents, publications, and existing solutions related to a given technical problem or invention.

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add robthepcguy/claude-patent-creator --skill prior-art-search -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

robthepcguy

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: cloud.google.com.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    cloud.google.comundeclared

    What it found (3 of 4)

    • skills/prior-art-search/prior_art_types.py:37contacts cloud.google.com
      "  1. Install gcloud: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install\n"
    • skills/prior-art-search/prior_art_types.py:540contacts cloud.google.com
      "Install Google Cloud SDK: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install",
    • skills/prior-art-search/prior_art_types.py:571contacts cloud.google.com
      "Install Google Cloud SDK: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install",

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned robthepcguy/claude-patent-creator at 29bb84415e.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
29bb84415e
Manifest
skills/prior-art-search/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 1,016 lines
This is a static scan, not a review. It reads the skill's files; it does not run them, and it cannot tell you whether the skill is any good or whether the code does what its description says. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent.
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About this skill

The prior-art-search skill enables AI agents to systematically investigate existing patents and technical literature relevant to a specific invention or project. It helps identify potential conflicts, validate novelty claims, and uncover foundational technologies before development begins.

When to use it

  • Before filing a patent application to ensure the invention is novel and non-obvious.
  • During product planning to avoid reinventing solutions that already exist in the market.
  • When conducting freedom-to-operate analysis for new software or hardware features.
  • To gather background context when drafting technical specifications or research papers.

Key capabilities

  • Searches patent databases using natural language queries.
  • Extracts relevant prior art documents and summarizes key findings.
  • Identifies potential infringement risks based on existing intellectual property.
  • Provides structured reports of discovered technologies and their owners.

Example prompts

  • "Search for prior art related to autonomous drone navigation systems using visual SLAM."
  • "Find patents covering biodegradable packaging materials made from agricultural waste."
  • "Analyze existing solutions for real-time language translation in low-resource languages."

Tips & gotchas

This skill works best when paired with clear, specific technical descriptions of the invention. Results may vary depending on the depth of patent databases accessed and the specificity of your search terms. Always verify critical findings with legal professionals before making business decisions.