general-patent-search

general-patent-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills. It costs 27 tokens per session (502 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for finding patents by keywords, materials, chemicals, technologies, or company ownership using Google Patents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find patent titles, owners, dates, and summaries when checking novelty, freedom to operate, or an intellectual-property landscape.
Why use it?
It provides an initial view of existing intellectual property without requiring paid patent databases or special access.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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 skills/learningmatter-mit/atomisticskills/general-patent-search
Any agent
npx skills add learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills --skill general-patent-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 502 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 5.1 $0.00027 $0.00502
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00251
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00050

Measured 6d ago against content hash cb5d2fd5c2a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-patent-search 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/query_google_patents.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/skills/general-patent-search/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Goal

To retrieve patent information (titles, assignees, dates, and snippets) for specific materials, chemicals, or technologies to assess novelty, freedom-to-operate, and existing intellectual property landscapes. This skill uses Google Patents for free, global, no-key-required patent querying.

Instructions

1. Identify Target and Scope

Determine exactly what you are searching for.

  • Are you looking for a specific chemical? (e.g., "tetrafluoropropene")
  • Are you looking for a specific company's IP? (e.g., assignee "SK Innovation")

2. Search Strategy (Google Patents)

Use the python script to query Google Patents. It will return global patents matching your query string.

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/general-patent-search/scripts/query_google_patents.py "query string" --limit 10

Examples

Searching for recent global patents on a novel refrigerant by chemical name:

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/general-patent-search/scripts/query_google_patents.py "tetrafluoropropene OR HFO-1234yf" --limit 5

Searching for global patents assigned to SK Innovation regarding electrolytes:

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/general-patent-search/scripts/query_google_patents.py "assignee:(SK Innovation) AND electrolyte" --limit 5

Constraints

  • Environments: The script requires the base-agent Conda environment.
  • Google Patents Limits: The scraping script is sensitive to IP rate-limiting. Do not set --limit excessively high (keep under 50).
  • Chemical Structures: This tool performs text-based searches. It does not perform exact Substructure or Tanimoto similarity searches natively. You must provide textual synonyms (e.g., IUPAC names, trade names) for accurate chemical retrieval.

References


Author: Sathya Edamadaka Contact: GitHub @snme

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 53 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A cb5d2fd5c2a0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

general-patent-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills (161 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 502 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.

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