Prior Art Search

by RobThePCGuy

Prior Art Search is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by RobThePCGuy in Claude-Patent-Creator.

179 stars27 forkson RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-CreatorAdded 2026/09/07+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/24

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Install Prior Art Search

Copy Prior Art Search into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator/tree/main/skills/prior-art-search ~/.claude/skills/prior-art-search

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/prior-art-search/SKILL.md in RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/prior-art-search
Collection: One of 17 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1328 skills

What Prior Art Search does

Prior Art Search guides a 7-step patent search process to find relevant prior art, assess patentability, and identify blocking patents. Use it when preparing a filing, freedom-to-operate review, or IDS list.

Prior Art Search is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Prior Art Search comes from a repository tagged bigquery, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, faiss and mcp-server.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Prior Art Search Skill

Systematic 7-step methodology for comprehensive patent prior art searches and patentability assessments.

When to Use

Invoke this skill when users ask to:

Conduct prior art search for an invention
Assess patentability of an idea
Perform freedom-to-operate analysis
Find blocking patents
Research patent landscapes
Prepare for patent filing

What This Skill Does

Implements a professional 7-step prior art search methodology combining:

Keyword searches across 100M+ patents (BigQuery)
CPC classification searches
USPTO API searches
Timeline analysis
Patentability assessment
IDS (Information Disclosure Statement) preparation

The 7-Step Methodology

Step 1: Invention Definition (2-3 min)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Prior Art Search provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

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Frequently asked about Prior Art Search

What else does RobThePCGuy publish alongside Prior Art Search?
Prior Art Search is one of 17 skills that DirSkills catalogs from RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include BigQuery Patent Search, Development Assistant and EPC Patent Search. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Prior Art Search does, and is maintained by RobThePCGuy in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator page.
How does Prior Art Search compare to other Writing skills?
Prior Art Search ranks #1126 by stars among the 1328 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Prior Art Search against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.