Patent Freedom-to-Operate Triage

Patent Freedom-to-Operate Triage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zgbrenner/agentcounsel. It costs 57 tokens per session (3,401 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A first-pass review of a product, process, or feature against specific patents already identified by the user. It flags possible blocking issues for counsel but is not a formal freedom-to-operate opinion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare product features with patent claims, record potential risk areas, and prepare an attorney-ready triage memo before launch.
Why use it?
It organizes patent risks and unanswered questions before a patent attorney performs a complete infringement analysis.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to compare product features with patent claims, record potential risk areas, and prepare an attorney-ready triage memo before launch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zgbrenner/agentcounsel/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 zgbrenner/agentcounsel --skill fto-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zgbrenner/agentcounsel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,401 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 $0.00057 $0.03401
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01700
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00680
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00340

Measured 9d ago against content hash 798ad6f166a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Patent Freedom-to-Operate 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.

skills/ip/fto-triage/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Patent Freedom-to-Operate Triage

Purpose

Produce a structured, attorney-ready triage memo that identifies potential patent blocking issues for a described product, process, or feature against a specific set of patents the user has already identified. The memo flags risk areas, surfaces open questions, and orients patent counsel for a formal freedom-to-operate analysis.

This is draft legal work product for attorney review. It is NOT a freedom-to-operate opinion. It does NOT conclude that a product is "clear to operate," that no infringement exists, or that any patent is invalid. Those conclusions require a formal opinion from qualified patent counsel following a comprehensive search and full legal analysis.

Use When

  • A user asks to "check if our product is blocked by these patents" or "do an FTO triage" against a defined list of patents.
  • A product, process, or feature is approaching launch and the team wants a structured first-pass memo to brief patent counsel.
  • A user has a set of identified patents and needs a systematic, element-by-element first-pass read organized for counsel review.
  • A user needs to document preliminary patent risk considerations before engaging in a licensing or design-around discussion with counsel.

Required Inputs

  • Technical description: a clear, precise description of the product, process, or feature being analyzed — the technical essence, not marketing language. The more specific the description, the more useful the triage.
  • Supporting technical detail: any additional specifications, drawings, flowcharts, claim charts, or design documents the user can provide.
  • Jurisdictions: the countries or regions where the product will be made, used, sold, offered for sale, or imported. Different jurisdictions may have different governing standards. [verify jurisdiction]
  • Patents in scope: the patents the user is already aware of — identified by patent number, publication number, or pasted claim text. This skill does NOT run a patent-database search.
  • Timing: the intended launch date or go/no-go decision deadline. [deadline verification required]

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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 · 154 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 798ad6f166a6

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Patent Freedom-to-Operate Triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository zgbrenner/agentcounsel (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 3,401 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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