priorart

priorart is a skill for Claude Code from duthaho/skillhub. It costs 178 tokens per session (1,584 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prior-art search for a product, tool, or library idea. Prior art means existing projects or products that may already solve the same problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search code registries, Show HN, arXiv, and related sources, then trace promising matches to the underlying tools or libraries.
Why use it?
It helps you discover existing alternatives before building and clarifies whether your idea is new, different, or better treated as an extension.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the research plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to search code registries, Show HN, arXiv, and related sources, then trace promising matches to the underlying tools or libraries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/duthaho/skillhub/priorart
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 duthaho/skillhub --skill priorart
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/duthaho/skillhub

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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 priorart

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/duthaho/skillhub/priorart/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/duthaho/skillhub/priorart)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/duthaho/skillhub/priorart"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/duthaho/skillhub/priorart/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for priorart

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 178 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,584 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 $0.00178 $0.01584
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.00792
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00317
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00158

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3da82d0aa76d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

priorart 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 8d 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.

.claude/skills/priorart/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

priorart — who built this before me?

/priorart <idea> — check whether the idea already exists /priorart — list ideas already checked (from out/priorart/checked.md)

Answer one question: has someone already built this — and what does that mean for whether you should? The deliverable is one honest verdict with the landscape as its evidence, not a survey. Advisory throughout: it recommends; the human decides what, if anything, gets built.

Step 0 — Check the memory

Read out/priorart/checked.md if it exists. If this idea (or a close variant) was checked before, open with "Since last check": re-verify the previous brief's findings (status changes, new arrivals since that date) instead of redoing the whole search. The pipeline below is for ideas not yet in the log.

Step 1 — Restate before searching

Restate the idea in one sentence — what it does, who it's for, and the constraint that makes it distinctive — and confirm it with the user. Too vague to restate → ask exactly one clarifying question, offering at most 3 example dimensions (it's a question, not a questionnaire).

Step 2 — Vocabulary before queries

Before any search, write 6–10 framings of the idea from distinct vantage points: the builder's terms, the end-user's terms, the academic field's terms, the infrastructure/implementation terms, and the adjacent discipline that likely solved this first. Map each planned query to a framing — this is what prevents five queries landing in the same semantic neighborhood and calling it coverage. Most "novel" ideas are existing ideas under a different name; the framings are where that name gets found.

Step 3 — Search where builders publish

Budget: ≤10 queries for the whole check, with 1–2 held back for Step 4's lead-tracing. Fan out 2–3 sub-agents grouped by venue class, each briefed with 2–3 framings and an explicit share of the rest (say the numbers; agents without a stated allowance keep searching). Together the briefs cover every vantage point from Step 2 — framings left out of every brief defeat the point of writing them:

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 127 lines · 178 tokens per session scan A 3da82d0aa76d

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priorart is a skill published in the GitHub repository duthaho/skillhub (9 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 178 tokens to every session and 1,584 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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