trilogy-patent-tools

Patent Disclosure — Claude Code Plugin

A Claude Code plugin that interactively discovers patentable ideas in a codebase and generates high-quality, attorney-ready patent disclosure documents with draft claims.

What It Does

1. Explores your codebase for potentially novel algorithms, architectures, and techniques
2. Surfaces patent candidates with confidence ratings — you don't need to know what's patentable
3. Interviews you conversationally to extract the tacit knowledge that makes inventions defensible
4. Generates a complete disclosure with 12 structured sections, Mermaid diagrams, pseudocode, and case studies
5. Drafts patent claims — independent and dependent claims in proper patent format with claim-to-code traceability
6. Self-assesses quality against a patent committee rubric and suggests improvements
7. Produces attorney-ready output — markdown and JSON that patent attorneys can turn into formal filings

Installation

# Add the marketplace
claude plugin marketplace add trilogy-group/cc-skill-patent-disclosure

# Install the plugin
claude plugin install patent-disclosure@trilogy-patent-tools

Optionally install beads for richer cross-session tracking:

bash scripts/setup.sh

The plugin works without beads using file-based state.

For Development / Testing

git clone https://github.com/trilogy-group/cc-skill-patent-disclosure.git
claude --plugin-dir ./cc-skill-patent-disclosure

Usage

Navigate to any project directory and run:

/patent-disclosure

Or describe what you want naturally:

> What's patentable in this codebase?
> Help me write a patent disclosure for our ranking algorithm
> Find novel ideas in https://github.com/org/repo

Three Modes

Mode	When to Use	What It Does
Full Discovery	You don't know what's patentable	Explores entire codebase, surfaces candidates, generates full disclosures
Targeted Analysis	You know which code to patent	Point to specific files/functions, skip exploration
Quick Triage	You want a fast assessment	1-page brief per candidate — pursue/skip/needs-more-info

Workflow (Full Discovery)

The skill guides you through 5 phases with explicit checkpoints at each transition:

Phase	What Happens
1. Explore	Analyzes codebase, auto-detects inventors from git, surfaces candidates, you triage
2. Deep-Dive	Targeted code analysis + 3-round conversational Q&A to capture the inventive insight
3. Generate	Produces 12 disclosure sections in batches with your review at each checkpoint
4. QC	Self-assesses against patent committee rubric, validates diagrams, iterates on weak sections
5. Output	Saves disclosure.md + ids.json + qc-report.md with claim-to-code mapping

Incremental Sessions

Work is saved after every phase. You can stop mid-disclosure and resume in a new session — the plugin reads your IDS JSON and picks up exactly where you left off.

No Local Code? No Problem

If you're not in a git repo, the skill asks for a GitHub URL, clones the repo, and analyzes it.

Output

For each invention, the plugin produces:

patent-disclosures/<invention-slug>/
├── disclosure.md     # Full attorney-ready disclosure with draft claims
├── ids.json          # Intermediate Data Structure (structured JSON)
└── qc-report.md     # Quality assessment with rubric scores

Disclosure Sections

#	Section	Purpose
1	Executive Summary	Non-technical overview for executives
2	Novelty	What is genuinely new — the inventive step
3	Context / Environment	Domain, system environment, constraints
4	Problems Solved	Pain points and prior approach failures
5	Introduction	Background concepts and terminology
6	What It Does & How	End-to-end technical description with diagrams
7	Case Studies	Real-world scenarios demonstrating the invention
8	Pseudocode	Language-agnostic algorithmic description
9	Data Structures	Schemas, ERDs, and data flow
10	Implementation Details	Architecture decisions, ML specifics, tradeoffs
11	Alternatives	Comparison with known approaches
12	Prior Art	Known related patents, papers, products (from inventor awareness)
--	Draft Claims	Independent + dependent claims with claim-to-code mapping

Diagrams

Diagrams are included where they add value (not forced into every section):

• What It Does & How: System architecture, processing pipeline flowchart (novel steps highlighted), sequence diagram
• Data Structures: Entity-relationship diagram
• Implementation Details: Component interaction diagram
• Case Studies: Walkthrough diagrams (recommended)