patent-novelty-check

Assess patent novelty and non-obviousness against prior art. Use when user says "专利查新", "patent novelty", "可专利性评估", "patentability check", or wants to evaluate if an invention is patentable.

Quality

80%

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured, actionable workflow with concrete matrices, an executable cross-model examiner prompt, and a clear output template. The main weakness is progressive disclosure: the body relies on two shared-references files for core legal standards that are not present in the bundle.

Suggestions

Resolve the dangling references: either inline the essential 102/103 and novelty/non-obviousness standards into SKILL.md, or add the shared-references files to the bundle so 'Load ../shared-references/...' resolves.

Consolidate the repeated 'research novelty is NOT patent novelty' note into a single Key Rules entry to tighten conciseness.

Reduce placeholders in the Codex MCP prompt (e.g. instruct Claude to substitute the drafted claims and prior-art citations explicitly) to make it more copy-paste ready.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Dense, structured guidance with tables and templates rather than padded prose; assumes Claude knows patent basics. The 'research novelty is NOT patent novelty' point is stated twice (intro and Key Rules) and could be consolidated.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides concrete claim-element matrices, combination-analysis tables, a copy-paste Codex MCP prompt block, and a full output template. Minor gaps: claim drafting is high-level and the MCP prompt contains unfilled placeholders.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Clear six-step sequence with an explicit conditional gate between novelty and obviousness analysis and a documented fallback for missing Codex MCP. Lacks an explicit validate-and-retry loop, but the operation is advisory rather than destructive.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized into clearly headed sections with one-level-deep references, but both referenced shared-references files (patent-writing-principles.md, patent-format-us.md) do not exist in the bundle, and the body defers core novelty/102-103 standards to them — a navigation gap beyond a minor organization issue.	3 / 5
	Total	15 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description with explicit what/when structure and comprehensive multilingual trigger terms. Its only weakness is specificity — it states a single high-level action rather than enumerating the concrete sub-tasks (claim drafting, anticipation/obviousness matrices, jurisdiction analysis) the skill performs.

Suggestions

Add 1-2 concrete actions to the description, e.g. 'Draft preliminary claims, run anticipation and obviousness matrices against prior art, and produce jurisdiction-specific (US/CN/EP) patentability assessments.'

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain ('patent novelty and non-obviousness against prior art') and one concrete action ('Assess'), but does not list multiple specific actions like claim drafting, anticipation analysis, or jurisdiction-specific assessment that the body actually performs.	3 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly states what ('Assess patent novelty and non-obviousness against prior art') and when ('Use when user says...') with concrete trigger phrases, matching the top anchor.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Comprehensive natural-term coverage across English and Chinese ('专利查新', 'patent novelty', '可专利性评估', 'patentability check') plus a natural full phrase ('wants to evaluate if an invention is patentable'), covering synonyms and multilingual variants.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Clear patent-novelty niche with distinct multilingual legal triggers; unlikely to fire for general research-novelty or prior-art-search skills.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Validation

87%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
allowed_tools_field	'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s)	Warning
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
Path: skills/patent-novelty-check/SKILL.md
Commit: f1bd907

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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