setup-assistant

setup-assistant is a skill for Claude Code from RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,438 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A setup guide for installing and configuring the Claude Patent Creator system, including its MCP server. MCP is a way for an AI assistant to connect to external tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check requirements, create a Python virtual environment, install dependencies, configure the system, verify that it works, and troubleshoot setup problems.
Why use it?
It reduces uncertainty during first-time installation, authentication, dependency setup, upgrades, or moving the system to another computer.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Not installable on its own: it runs a file from its repository that does not travel with it. Clone the repository, or install whatever ships that file. The line is python scripts/test_install.py.

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

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-patent-creator-standalone

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 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,438 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00022 $0.01438
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00719
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00144

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4ae5bb8af757, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

setup-assistant 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- Permissions: May need sudo ### macOS
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/setup-assistant/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup Assistant Skill

Expert system for installing, configuring, and setting up the Claude Patent Creator MCP server.

When to Use

Installing first time, setting up new environment, configuring authentication, troubleshooting installation, migrating to new machine, updating dependencies, verifying health.

Quick Setup (5 Minutes)

# 1. Create virtual environment
python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate  # Windows
source venv/bin/activate  # Linux/macOS

# 2. Run installer
python install.py

# 3. Restart Claude Code

# 4. Test
# Ask Claude: "Search MPEP for claim definiteness"

Complete Setup Lifecycle

Phase 1: Pre-Installation Checks

Requirements:

  • Python 3.9-3.12 (3.11 recommended)
  • 8GB+ RAM (16GB recommended)
  • 5GB free disk
  • Optional: NVIDIA GPU with CUDA 12.x

Verify:

python --version  # Should show 3.9-3.12
nvidia-smi        # Optional: Check GPU

Phase 2: Virtual Environment

# Create venv
python -m venv venv

# Activate
venv\Scripts\activate  # Windows
source venv/bin/activate  # Linux/macOS

# Verify
which python  # Should show venv path

Important: Always activate venv before running scripts!

Phase 3: Dependency Installation

Automated (Recommended):

python install.py
# Handles: PyTorch order, GPU detection, MCP registration

Manual (Advanced):

# Install PyTorch FIRST (critical!)
pip install torch torchvision --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128

# Then install package (includes all dependencies)
pip install -e .

Why PyTorch order matters: If installed after sentence-transformers, you get CPU-only version.

Phase 4: BigQuery Authentication (Optional)

BigQuery adds 100M+ patent search but is NOT required. MPEP search, claims review, EPO analysis, and all other features work without it.

The setup auto-detects existing gcloud credentials. If already authenticated, BigQuery works automatically.

If the user wants to enable BigQuery later:

# One command — opens browser for Google sign-in (free, no credit card)
! gcloud auth application-default login

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 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. 6d ago First seen · 239 lines · 22 tokens per session scan B 4ae5bb8af757

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setup-assistant is a skill published in the GitHub repository RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator (178 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,438 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.