invention-intake

invention-intake is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-for-legal. It costs 61 tokens per session (5,265 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

An initial screen for an invention disclosure, covering possible novelty, obviousness, patent-eligibility, disclosure deadlines, detectability, and business value. It is not a patentability opinion and does not perform a prior-art search.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to triage an invention disclosure and identify public-disclosure dates, inventor details, technical differences, and issues requiring professional review.
Why use it?
It helps decide whether an invention needs more information, a prior-art search, and review by registered patent counsel, or whether an early concern should stop the process.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the ip-legal plugin — 9 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to triage an invention disclosure and identify public-disclosure dates, inventor details, technical differences, and issues requiring professional review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/claude-for-legal/invention-intake
About the project

Claude for Legal is a collection of AI agents, skills, and data connectors for legal work such as commercial, privacy, employment, litigation, regulatory, and intellectual-property matters. Lawyers and legal teams use it through Claude Cowork, Claude Code, or the Claude Managed Agents API, with attorney review required for every output. The catalogue entries are its workflow plugins, skills, agents, and connectors.

anthropics/claude-for-legal · 9,544 stars · on GitHub

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.

Any agent
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill invention-intake
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ip-legal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 agent.

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 invention-intake

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,265 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 15 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00061 $0.05265
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.02106
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00526

Measured 6d ago against content hash beb7db467fd4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-28, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

invention-intake scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Tells the agent never to refusemediumAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

> When the practice profile includes non-US jurisdictions: "This §101 screen is US-only. If you file internationally, the eligibility posture may be different — particularly for software, AI/ML, and business methods, whi

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

ip-legal/skills/invention-intake/SKILL.md · 473 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 473 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/invention-intake

This is a first-pass screen by a non-specialist, not a patentability opinion. The screen never concludes that an invention is patentable — it concludes that it passes the initial screen and warrants a prior-art search and registered-practitioner review, that it needs more information, or that it hits a disqualifier. A prior-art search is a separate step; this skill does not do one.

Instructions

  1. Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/ip-legal/CLAUDE.md. If it contains [PLACEHOLDER], stop and direct to /ip-legal:cold-start-interview. If the practice profile shows trademark- or copyright-only (no patent practice), say so and route the user elsewhere — this is the wrong tool.
  2. Follow the workflow below.
  3. Run intake. If the user pasted or uploaded a disclosure, read it. If not, ask the seven intake questions (what / problem / differences / inventors / public disclosure / status / technology area) in one batch and wait.
  4. Run the six screens: novelty signals, obviousness flags, § 101 eligibility, public disclosure / bar dates, detectability, strategic value. Each screen gets a ✓ / 🟡 / 🔴 verdict with one-line reasoning.
  5. Write the invention screen memo to the matter folder (if a matter is active) or the practice outputs folder. Apply the work-product header per role.
  6. Bottom-line verdict: PURSUE (schedule prior-art search and attorney review) / INVESTIGATE (needs more info on a specific open item) / DECLINE (state the concrete reason). Never say "patentable."
  7. Close with the decision tree (prior-art search / inventor follow-up / specialist review / decline + thank-you / trade-secret route) and the non-lawyer gate if the role is non-lawyer.
  8. If the screen hit a within-one-year US disclosure or any public disclosure with foreign rights in scope, flag at the top: time-sensitive.

This skill never concludes that an invention is patentable. If uncertain, flag — a registered patent attorney or agent decides.

Read the full file on GitHub · 473 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. 6d ago First seen · 473 lines · 61 tokens per session scan B beb7db467fd4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

invention-intake is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-for-legal (9,544 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 5,265 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-23.

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