FlowLeap methods

Fifteen patent work methods (skills) for FlowLeap Patent AI agents. Each method is a folder skills/<name>/ with a SKILL.md and, where needed, a references/ folder. The methods call the FlowLeap patent tools by name (search_patents, get_claims, get_family, examiner_baseline, …). They never run a command-line tool.

Method	Task
recipe-prior-art-search	Prior-art and novelty search; holds the search method the other methods use (references/search-method.md)
recipe-find-better	Closer prior art than the examiners cited against a granted patent
recipe-invalidity-analysis	Invalidity case with the Fallback Ladder and search rounds
recipe-freedom-to-operate	Freedom-to-operate clearance for a product
recipe-patent-landscape	Patents of a technology area: players, trends, white space
recipe-claim-analysis	Claims broken into elements, keywords and queries
recipe-claim-drafting	Claims drafted against the closest prior art
recipe-infringement-charting	Element-by-element infringement chart
recipe-office-action-response	Analysis of an EP or US office action with response options
recipe-invention-disclosure	Invention disclosure form with a novelty check
recipe-maintenance-fees	US maintenance-fee status and deadlines
recipe-patent-to-report	Dossier of one patent
recipe-academic-literature-review	Published research against filed patents
recipe-audit-report	Auditable record of AI-assisted patent research
recipe-custom-dashboard	Self-contained HTML dashboard from verified patent data

Install

FlowLeap Patent AI app (firm OS and desktop). The app ships these methods: its image and its desktop build copy skills/ at a fixed commit of this repository. Its office tools are built in; patent_analytics, get_fulltext and the PATSTAT tools need FlowLeap Data.

Claude Code. Add this repository as a marketplace and install the plugin. The methods need the FlowLeap patent tools, for example from the FlowLeap connector (the flowleap plugin of flowleap-ai/flowleap-plugins).

/plugin marketplace add flowleap-ai/flowleap-methods
/plugin install flowleap-methods@flowleap-methods

DeepSeek Harness (dsh). The repository is a dsh bundle (package.json dsh.bundle): dsh/index.js publishes the methods on ctx.skills. It is plain ESM with no build step, so the install needs no build permission. Pin a commit:

dsh plugin add github:flowleap-ai/flowleap-methods#<commit>

Develop

npm ci
npm test

The tests parse every frontmatter as YAML, check each description, and check that no method names a command-line tool, the CLI or a skill outside this repository. They also check that every method carries the two fixed paragraphs of tests/paragraphs.json, that the dsh bundle and the Claude Code manifest publish the same 15 methods, and that the dashboard templates pass their smoke test. CI runs them on every pull request.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.