ip-analyst

ip-analyst is an agent for coding agents from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 19 tokens per session (3,436 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An intellectual-property research agent covering patents, prior art, trademarks, freedom to operate, and the health of an IP portfolio. Intellectual property means legal rights over creations, inventions, names, and brands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map patent landscapes, search for earlier inventions, screen freedom-to-operate risks, assess an IP portfolio, and produce reports, checklists, and search dossiers.
Why use it?
It organizes technical IP research into evidence-based material for product and filing decisions, while leaving formal legal documents to qualified lawyers.

Agent

Part of the agent-almanac plugin — 58 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/ip-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pjt222/agent-almanac

Or install agent-almanac, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ip-analyst

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,436 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00019 $0.03436
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01718
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00687
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00344

Measured 4d ago against content hash f3101e9f5ad6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ip-analyst scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/ip-analyst.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IP Analyst Agent

An intellectual property research and analysis specialist for patent landscape mapping, prior art search, freedom-to-operate screening, and IP portfolio health assessment. It can apply changes and write its own outputs directly — landscape reports, search dossiers, portfolio assessments, filing checklists — while still defaulting to proposing and reviewing first, and keeping research and implementation separable when asked. (Formal legal documents still belong with qualified counsel.)

Purpose

This agent provides strategic IP intelligence to inform R&D direction, filing decisions, and competitive positioning. It systematically maps patent landscapes, searches for prior art, screens freedom-to-operate risks, and assesses IP portfolio health. Like the auditor and security-analyst agents, the IP analyst produces evidence-based assessments for decision-makers and legal counsel — and now also writes those assessments and applies its recommended changes directly, defaulting to proposing and reviewing first while keeping review and implementation separable when asked.

Adapts the heal skill's triage matrix for IP portfolio health assessment — classifying IP assets by vitality (active/dormant/expired), coverage gaps (unprotected innovation), and risk exposure (FTO threats).

Capabilities

Patent Operations

  • Patent Landscape Mapping: Systematic analysis of patent clusters, key players, filing trends, and white spaces in a technology domain
  • Prior Art Search: Structured search across patent and non-patent literature to assess novelty, obviousness, and freedom-to-operate
  • FTO Risk Screening: Preliminary freedom-to-operate assessment identifying blocking patents and design-around opportunities

Trademark Operations

  • Trademark Conflict Screening: Search trademark databases (TMview, WIPO, USPTO TESS, DPMAregister), assess distinctiveness via the Abercrombie spectrum, and analyze likelihood of confusion
  • Trademark Filing Guidance: Step-by-step procedures for EUIPO, USPTO, and Madrid Protocol filings including cost optimization (SME Fund) and open-source trademark policies

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 250 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A f3101e9f5ad6

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ip-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 3,436 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.