A full patent specification drafting pipeline. An agent team collaborates to generate prior art search, claims, specification, and drawing descriptions in a single pass. Use this skill for contexts such as 'write a patent specification', 'patent application', 'invention patent', 'draft claims', 'prior art search', 'patent draft', 'patent specification draft', 'convert invention report to patent', 'turn an idea into a patent', and other patent specification drafting tasks. Note: Actual patent office filing, patent examination responses (opinion statements/amendments), patent litigation, and international filing (PCT/Paris Convention) practice are outside the scope of this skill.
Converts an invention's technical idea into a systematic patent specification set.
Agent Team — 5 agents communicate directly via SendMessage and cross-verify each other's work.
| Agent | File | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| prior-art-researcher | .claude/agents/prior-art-researcher.md | Prior art search, novelty/inventive step analysis | general-purpose |
| claim-drafter | .claude/agents/claim-drafter.md | Independent/dependent claim drafting, claim scope design | general-purpose |
| specification-writer | .claude/agents/specification-writer.md | Detailed description of invention, embodiment writing | general-purpose |
| drawing-designer | .claude/agents/drawing-designer.md |
| Drawing composition, reference numeral descriptions |
| general-purpose |
| patent-reviewer | .claude/agents/patent-reviewer.md | Consistency cross-verification, description deficiency check | general-purpose |
_workspace/ directory in the project root_workspace/00_input.md| Order | Task | Owner | Dependencies | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prior Art Search | prior-art-researcher | None | _workspace/01_prior_art_report.md |
| 2 | Claim Drafting | claim-drafter | Task 1 | _workspace/02_claims.md |
| 3a | Specification Writing | specification-writer | Tasks 1, 2 | _workspace/03_specification.md |
| 3b | Drawing Design | drawing-designer | Task 2 | _workspace/04_drawings.md |
| 4 | Patent Review | patent-reviewer | Tasks 1, 2, 3a, 3b | _workspace/05_review_report.md |
Tasks 3a (Specification) and 3b (Drawing) are executed in parallel. Both depend on claims, so they can start simultaneously after Task 2 is complete. However, both sides communicate for reference numeral coordination.
Inter-agent Communication Flow:
_workspace/01_prior_art_report.md02_claims.md03_specification.md04_drawings.md05_review_report.md| User Request Pattern | Execution Mode | Agents Deployed |
|---|---|---|
| "Write the full patent specification" | Full Pipeline | All 5 agents |
| "Just search prior art" | Search Mode | prior-art-researcher only |
| "Just draft claims" | Claims Mode | claim-drafter + reviewer |
| "Write spec from these claims" (existing claims) | Specification Mode | specification-writer + drawing-designer + reviewer |
| "Review this specification" | Review Mode | patent-reviewer only |
| Strategy | Method | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| File-based | _workspace/ directory | Storing and sharing main deliverables |
| Message-based | SendMessage | Real-time delivery of key info, numeral coordination, revision requests |
File naming convention: {order}_{agent}_{deliverable}.{extension}
| Error Type | Strategy |
|---|---|
| Web search failure | Prior art researcher works based on general knowledge, notes "DB search not performed" |
| Insufficient invention info | Request additional info from user, draft with minimum information |
| Agent failure | Retry once -> if failed, proceed without that deliverable, note omission in review report |
| Red items found in review | Request revision from relevant agent -> rework -> re-verify (up to 2 times) |
| Reference numeral mismatch | drawing-designer and specification-writer mutually coordinate |
Prompt: "Write a patent specification for an IoT-based smart flowerpot automatic watering system. It measures with a soil moisture sensor and AI adjusts the watering amount based on plant type." Expected Results:
Prompt: "Just search prior art for this invention idea" Expected Results:
Prompt: "Write a patent specification, the idea is new battery technology" Expected Results:
| Agent | Extension Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| claim-drafter, patent-reviewer | claim-drafting-patterns | Claim drafting patterns, claim scope design strategy |
| prior-art-researcher | prior-art-search-strategy | Prior art search strategy, novelty/inventive step analysis framework |