Patent Skills — Development skill for Claude Code

AI Agent Skills

Open-source skills for patent analysis and principle extraction. Built on the [Agent Skills](https://agentskills.io) standard.

Repository Status

This repository is **fully standalone**. It has no dependencies on private ObviouslyNot repositories.

For integration with the ObviouslyNot ecosystem, see: https://obviouslynot.ai/skills

What Are Agent Skills?

Agent skills are portable instructions that extend what AI coding agents can do. Each skill is a `SKILL.md` file — a Markdown document with YAML frontmatter that any compatible agent can read and execute.

The [Agent Skills standard](https://agentskills.io) was originated by Anthropic and adopted by 27+ tools including Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Goose, and more. Write once, use everywhere.

Format

skill-name/
  SKILL.md           # Required — instructions + YAML frontmatter
  scripts/           # Optional — executable code
  references/        # Optional — detailed docs loaded on demand
  assets/            # Optional — templates, data files

The `SKILL.md` file contains:

---
name: skill-name
description: What this skill does and when to use it.
---

# Instructions

Step-by-step instructions the agent follows...

Agents read the `description` field to decide when to activate the skill. The Markdown body contains the full instructions, loaded on demand to keep context usage efficient.

Installation

Claude Code / Gemini CLI / Cursor

Clone the repo and copy any skill into your agent's skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/Obviously-Not/patent-skills
cp -r patent-skills/code-patent-scanner .claude/skills/

The skill becomes available as a `/code-patent-scanner` slash command. Claude Code (and other compatible agents) will also auto-invoke it when it detects a relevant task.

**Project-level** (shared with your team via version control):

your-project/.claude/skills/code-patent-scanner/SKILL.md

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