fto-triage

fto-triage is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 81 tokens per session (5,994 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A first-pass review of patents that might block a product or process. It compares plausible patents with product features, but is not a formal freedom-to-operate opinion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a launch or technical decision to review known patents, search for likely blockers, and build an initial claim chart.
Why use it?
It helps identify possible patent obstacles early and shows which claim elements require deeper analysis by patent counsel.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it before a launch or technical decision to review known patents, search for likely blockers, and build an initial claim chart.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/fto-triage
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 uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins --skill fto-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ip-legal-uk, 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.

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README.md
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,994 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 $0.00081 $0.05994
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02997
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00599

Measured 9d ago against content hash 15762849dd04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fto-triage 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.

ip-legal-uk/skills/fto-triage/SKILL.md · 545 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 545 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/fto-triage

This is not a freedom-to-operate opinion. A formal FTO opinion requires a comprehensive search, full claim construction, and element-by-element infringement analysis by a Chartered Patent Attorney or registered patent counsel. Patent infringement is strict liability; wilful infringement can attract enhanced damages. A "no obvious blocking patents" result from this skill means the triage didn't find one — it does not mean the product is clear.

Instructions

  1. Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/ip-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md. If it contains [PLACEHOLDER], stop and direct to /ip-legal-uk:cold-start-interview.
  2. Follow the workflow below.
  3. Run intake (product/process, technical detail, jurisdictions, known patents, timing).
  4. Run a preliminary patent search if a connector is available (Solve Intelligence Patents, or other patent-research MCP). Otherwise say so in the output and proceed with the patents the user has supplied.
  5. For the 2–5 most plausible patents, build a claim-chart first pass against each independent claim — element by element. Literal read first; flag doctrine-of-equivalents separately; flag indirect / divided infringement.
  6. List open questions a real FTO study would resolve (enforceability, prosecution history, IPR outcomes, licence availability, enforcement history of the proprietor).
  7. Write the triage memo to the matter folder or practice outputs folder. Apply the work-product header per role.
  8. End with recommended next steps, a wilfulness note (knowledge of specific patents factors into enhanced-damages arguments if the company proceeds without further counsel review), and the non-lawyer gate if the role is non-lawyer.

This skill never concludes that a product is clear to launch. If uncertain, flag — a Chartered Patent Attorney decides.

Examples

/ip-legal-uk:fto-triage "an on-device speech recognition model for consumer wearables, UK launch first"
/ip-legal-uk:fto-triage

Read the full file on GitHub · 545 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 · 545 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 15762849dd04

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fto-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 5,994 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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