invention-intake

invention-intake is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 77 tokens per session (4,973 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A first-pass screen of an invention for patent-related concerns such as novelty, obviousness, eligibility, disclosure dates, detectability, and business value. It is not a patentability opinion or prior-art search.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to triage an invention disclosure and choose between gathering more facts, commissioning a prior-art search, or stopping early.
Why use it?
It helps decide whether an invention has enough promise or enough missing information to justify further investigation and patent professional review.

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 to triage an invention disclosure and choose between gathering more facts, commissioning a prior-art search, or stopping early.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/invention-intake
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 invention-intake
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.

agentmods badge for invention-intake

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,973 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00077 $0.04973
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.02486
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00995
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00497

Measured 9d ago against content hash eb1ffa9722ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

invention-intake scanned grade C 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 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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

> **UK/EPO vs. US.** The US §101/*Alice/Mayo* framework is materially different from UK/EPO. An invention that screens 🔴 under *Alice* may be eligible under UK/EPO practice. An invention that seems clear under UK/EPO ma
ip-legal-uk/skills/invention-intake/SKILL.md · 388 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 388 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/invention-intake

This is a first-pass screen by a non-specialist, not a patentability opinion. The screen never concludes that an invention is patentable — it concludes that it passes the initial screen and warrants a prior-art search and Chartered Patent Attorney review, that it needs more information, or that it hits a disqualifier. A prior-art search is a separate step; this skill does not do one.

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. If the practice profile shows trade mark- or copyright-only (no patent practice), say so and route the user elsewhere — this is the wrong tool.
  2. Follow the workflow below.
  3. Run intake. If the user pasted or uploaded a disclosure, read it. If not, ask the seven intake questions in one batch and wait.
  4. Run the six screens: novelty signals, obviousness flags, subject-matter eligibility (PA 1977 s.1(2) + Aerotel/Macrossan), public disclosure / bar dates, detectability, strategic value. Each screen gets a ✓ / 🟡 / 🔴 verdict with one-line reasoning.
  5. Write the invention screen memo to the matter folder (if a matter is active) or the practice outputs folder. Apply the work-product header per role.
  6. Bottom-line verdict: PURSUE (schedule prior-art search and Chartered Patent Attorney review) / INVESTIGATE (needs more info on a specific open item) / DECLINE (state the concrete reason). Never say "patentable."
  7. Close with the decision tree and the non-lawyer gate if the role is non-lawyer.
  8. If the screen hit a public disclosure with UK / foreign rights in scope, flag at the top: time-sensitive. UK and EPO practice apply absolute novelty with limited exceptions — there is very little grace period.

This skill never concludes that an invention is patentable. If uncertain, flag — a Chartered Patent Attorney decides.

Examples

Read the full file on GitHub · 388 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 · 388 lines · 77 tokens per session scan C eb1ffa9722ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

invention-intake 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 77 tokens to every session and 4,973 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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