Trademark Clearance Triage

Trademark Clearance Triage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zgbrenner/agentcounsel. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,171 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preliminary check of a proposed brand name, product name, slogan, or logo before a formal trademark search. It identifies obvious concerns but does not decide whether the mark is available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a proposed mark, its goods or services, and possible conflicts before commissioning a full clearance search.
Why use it?
It helps teams spot early naming risks and prepare useful information for trademark counsel.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review a proposed mark, its goods or services, and possible conflicts before commissioning a full clearance search.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,171 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 $0.00035 $0.02171
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01086
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00434
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00217

Measured 9d ago against content hash 02de84527cd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Trademark Clearance 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/trademark-clearance-triage/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trademark Clearance Triage

Purpose

Produce a structured preliminary triage of a proposed trademark — a brand name, product name, slogan, or logo — to identify obvious concerns and orient the client before engaging trademark counsel for a formal clearance search and opinion. This is draft legal work product for attorney review. It is NOT a clearance opinion, NOT a freedom-to-operate determination, and does NOT constitute a legal finding that any mark is available for use or registration.

Use When

  • A user asks to "check if a name is available" or "see if we can trademark this."
  • A user wants to know if a proposed brand name, product name, or slogan is likely to face trademark issues.
  • A client is in early brand development and wants a structured starting point before commissioning a full clearance search.
  • A user needs a triage summary to brief trademark counsel efficiently.
  • A user asks what a formal trademark clearance process involves and what inputs counsel will need.

Required Inputs

  • The proposed mark: exact name, slogan, or description of the logo/design element.
  • Goods and/or services: a plain-language description of the products or services the mark will identify (e.g., "mobile app for personal finance," "organic coffee beans sold online").
  • International Classification (Nice Classes): if the user knows the relevant class(es), capture them; if unknown, note that class identification is an attorney task and provide a general description only.
  • Geographic markets: primary and secondary markets (e.g., United States, EU, Canada).
  • Intended use: whether use has already begun (use-in-commerce) or is planned (intent-to-use), and approximate timing.

If the proposed mark text is not provided, stop and request it before proceeding. If goods/services or geographic market are not provided, flag them as unknown and note that the triage will be incomplete without them.

Do Not Use When

  • The user needs a formal trademark clearance opinion or freedom-to-use determination — refer to trademark counsel.
  • The user has received a cease-and-desist letter and needs to respond (use cease-and-desist-response); responding to an opposition or cancellation proceeding is separate, attorney-directed work.
  • The document to review is a license agreement, co-existence agreement, or assignment — use contract-risk-review.
  • The user needs a copyright analysis (use dmca-takedown for DMCA takedown matters) or a patent search — general copyright clearance and patent work are outside the scope of this triage.

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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 · 132 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 02de84527cd3

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Trademark Clearance Triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository zgbrenner/agentcounsel (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,171 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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