Invention Disclosure Intake

Invention Disclosure Intake is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zgbrenner/agentcounsel. It costs 39 tokens per session (3,082 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured first review of a proposed invention to help decide whether patent counsel should examine it. It also flags possible urgency caused by public disclosure or filing deadlines, but is not a patentability opinion or prior-art search.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture an invention’s technical idea, identify initial patent-related signals, and decide whether to commission a formal patent review.
Why use it?
It turns an early, incomplete invention description into an organized briefing for patent counsel and highlights timing risks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to capture an invention’s technical idea, identify initial patent-related signals, and decide whether to commission a formal patent review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zgbrenner/agentcounsel/invention-intake
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zgbrenner/agentcounsel --skill invention-intake
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zgbrenner/agentcounsel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,082 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 $0.00039 $0.03082
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01541
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00616
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00308

Measured 9d ago against content hash f262d3f7840f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Invention Disclosure Intake 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/invention-intake/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Invention Disclosure Intake

Purpose

Produce a structured first-pass invention disclosure screen that helps patent counsel quickly orient to a proposed invention, identify obvious patentability signals, and flag any urgent filing-deadline concerns. This is draft legal work product for attorney review. It is NOT a patentability opinion, NOT a prior-art search, and does NOT constitute a legal finding that any invention is patentable or patent-eligible.

Use When

  • A user presents a new invention and asks whether it is worth pursuing a patent.
  • An engineer, product team, or inventor needs a structured disclosure captured before meeting with patent counsel.
  • A user wants to understand whether public-disclosure timing creates an urgent filing concern.
  • A user needs a first-pass triage to decide whether to commission a formal patentability search and opinion.
  • A user wants a structured intake document to brief patent counsel efficiently.

Required Inputs

The following information is needed to run the screen. Provide either a full written disclosure document that covers these points, or answers to each intake question individually.

  • Technical essence: what the invention does and how it works, in plain language.
  • Problem solved: the technical or practical problem the invention addresses, and why existing approaches fall short.
  • Points of distinction: how the invention differs from known prior approaches — in the inventor's own words, without legal characterization.
  • Inventors and conception date: names of all individuals who contributed to the inventive concept, and the date (or approximate date) the invention was first conceived. [CONFIRM: conception date with each named inventor]
  • Public-disclosure history: any public disclosures already made — including conference presentations, papers, preprints, product launches, trade-show demonstrations, press releases, social media posts, open-source commits, or any disclosure not protected by a non-disclosure agreement — with dates and venues. If all disclosures were made under NDA, confirm the NDA was in place before disclosure. [CONFIRM: whether any disclosure was made without NDA coverage]
  • Usage and commercialization status: whether the invention is already in a shipped product, a limited pilot, on the product roadmap, or described only internally or in a publication.
  • Technical area: the general field or domain (e.g., software, mechanical, biotech, chemical, electrical) to help route the disclosure to the right specialist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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 · 163 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A f262d3f7840f

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Invention Disclosure Intake is a skill published in the GitHub repository zgbrenner/agentcounsel (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 3,082 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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