review-formalities

review-formalities is a command for Claude Code from RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator. It costs 18 tokens per session (353 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for the formal parts of a U.S. patent application, including the abstract, title, drawings, required sections, declaration, fees, and information disclosure statement. It uses MPEP rules, the U.S. patent examination manual, to identify requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check abstract and title limits, drawing coverage and numbering, required application sections, filing documents, and estimated fees based on claim count.
Why use it?
It helps catch formatting and completeness problems that can delay filing or require corrections. It also separates required and optional items and provides pre-filing checks.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-patent-creator-standalone plugin — 17 skills, 16 commands, 13 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to check abstract and title limits, drawing coverage and numbering, required application sections, filing documents, and estimated fees based on claim count.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/robthepcguy/claude-patent-creator/review-formalities
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-patent-creator-standalone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 16 commands, 13 agents, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 353 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00018 $0.00353
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00177
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00035

Measured 9d ago against content hash b4abf1e3f39f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-formalities 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 9d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

commands/review-formalities.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Formalities Check

Verify all formal requirements for a complete patent application.

Check Type: $ARGUMENTS

What I'll Check

  1. Abstract - 150 words max, proper content (MPEP 608.01(b))
  2. Title - 500 characters max, descriptive (MPEP 606)
  3. Drawings - All claim features shown, proper numbering (MPEP 608.02)
  4. Required Sections - Field, Background, Summary, etc.
  5. Filing Checklist - Declaration, fees, IDS

Specified check type focuses on that requirement; otherwise checks everything.

Process

  1. Ask for application sections
  2. Check each formality requirement
  3. Search MPEP for standards
  4. Generate compliance report with:
    • Requirements checklist
    • Non-compliance issues
    • Fix instructions
    • Pre-filing checklist

Output

  • Section-by-section compliance status
  • Issues with character/word counts
  • Required vs optional items
  • Filing preparation checklist
  • Estimated fees based on claim count

DISCLAIMER: This tool assists with patent application preparation but does NOT replace legal advice from a registered patent attorney. Always consult with legal counsel before filing. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the USPTO.

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. 9d ago First seen · 49 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A b4abf1e3f39f

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review-formalities is a command published in the GitHub repository RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator (179 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 353 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.