epc-search

epc-search is a skill for Claude Code from Raw1mage/patentmcp. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,280 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of epc-search, MIT.

A search tool for European and international patent-law sources, including the European Patent Convention (EPC), European Patent Office (EPO) examination guidelines, and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research EPC articles and rules, EPO examination guidance, PCT requirements, European patent procedures, and legal principles from EPO appeal decisions.
Why use it?
It helps developers and patent professionals find the legal provisions behind European Patent Office examination questions without searching each document separately.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. 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 research EPC articles and rules, EPO examination guidance, PCT requirements, European patent procedures, and legal principles from EPO appeal decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/raw1mage/patentmcp/epc-search
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 Raw1mage/patentmcp --skill epc-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Raw1mage/patentmcp

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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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,280 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00028 $0.02280
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01140
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00456
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00228

Measured 9d ago against content hash b683989ddeb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

epc-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 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

This is a copy

100% identical to epc-search — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

refs/Claude-Patent-Creator/skills/epc-search/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hybrid RAG search across the European Patent Convention (EPC), EPO Guidelines for Examination, and PCT Rules for patent law research.

When to Use

Invoke this skill when users ask to:

  • Find EPC articles or rules on a specific topic
  • Search EPO Guidelines for Examination
  • Look up PCT rules or Administrative Instructions
  • Compare EPC requirements with USPTO/MPEP practice
  • Research EPO Board of Appeal case law principles
  • Understand European patent prosecution procedure
  • Find legal basis for EPO examination objections

What This Skill Does

Provides legal research across European and international patent law:

  1. EPC Search (European Patent Convention):

    • Articles 1-178 EPC
    • Rules 1-167 EPC (Implementing Regulations)
    • Protocol on Interpretation of Art. 69 EPC
    • Protocol on Centralisation
    • Protocol on Privileges and Immunities
  2. EPO Guidelines Search (Guidelines for Examination):

    • Part A: Guidelines for Formalities Examination
    • Part B: Guidelines for Search
    • Part C: Guidelines for Procedural Aspects of Substantive Examination
    • Part D: Guidelines for Opposition and Limitation/Revocation
    • Part E: Guidelines for General Procedural Matters
    • Part F: Guidelines for Substantive Examination (The Patent Application)
    • Part G: Guidelines for Patentability
    • Part H: Guidelines for Amendments and Corrections
  3. PCT Rules Search (Patent Cooperation Treaty):

    • PCT Articles 1-69
    • PCT Rules 1-96 (Regulations under the PCT)
    • Administrative Instructions under the PCT
    • WIPO Standards (ST.25, ST.26, ST.36)
  4. Cross-Jurisdiction Comparison:

    • EPC vs 35 USC mapping
    • EPO Guidelines vs MPEP equivalents
    • PCT requirements vs national requirements

Required Data

MCP Tools Available:

  • search_patent_law - Search EPC, EPO Guidelines, PCT rules with jurisdiction parameter
  • search_mpep - Search MPEP/35 USC/37 CFR for comparison

How to Use

When this skill is invoked:

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 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. 9d ago First seen · 262 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A b683989ddeb2

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epc-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository Raw1mage/patentmcp (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,280 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to epc-search, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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