PatSnap Agent Skills

This repository contains PatSnap procedural knowledge skills for AI agents. The skills cover core intellectual property search, R&D and engineering analysis, pharmaceutical and biomedical intelligence, materials science, and the imported Open Platform workflow library.

Each skill is a self-contained directory with a required SKILL.md file and optional bundled resources such as references/, scripts/, assets/, templates/, and agents/.

Installation

Install all skills from one domain:

npx skills add patsnap/skills/tree/main/ip --all
npx skills add patsnap/skills/tree/main/engineering --all
npx skills add patsnap/skills/tree/main/life-sciences --all
npx skills add patsnap/skills/tree/main/materials --all
npx skills add patsnap/skills/tree/main/open-platform --all

Install one skill:

npx skills add patsnap/skills/tree/main/ip/free-patent-search

Structure

skills/
├── engineering/          # Core R&D, technology analysis, innovation and TRIZ workflows
├── ip/                   # Core free patent-search workflows
├── life-sciences/        # Core pharmaceutical and biomedical intelligence workflows
├── materials/            # Materials science, technology scouting and alloy composition workflows
├── open-platform/        # Imported Skill Hub / Open Platform workflow skills
├── package.json
└── README.md

Repository Snapshot

Domain	Directory	Skill directories	Notes
Engineering / R&D	`engineering/`	9	Core R&D analysis skills, Chinese variants, and TRIZ innovation workflow.
IP / Patent Intelligence	`ip/`	2	Free patent-search skills in English and Chinese.
Life Sciences	`life-sciences/`	12	Original pharma intelligence skills and Chinese variants.
Materials	`materials/`	10	Includes materials explanation, technology scouting, problem solving, product translation and alloy composition search skills.
Open Platform	`open-platform/`	178	Skill Hub imported workflows for IP, R&D, engineering, life sciences, reports, FTO, patent operations, technology transfer and vertical intelligence.

Open Platform Imports

The 2026-06-30, 2026-07-03, 2026-07-09 and 2026-08-11 Skill Hub batches have been normalized into the top-level open-platform/ directory instead of being mixed into the core domain directories.

Domain	Imported skills
Imports before 2026-08-11	119
2026-08-11 Engineering / R&D source category	15
2026-08-11 IP source category	38
2026-08-11 Life Sciences source category	6
Total imported skill directories	178

Core Skills

Engineering

General-purpose R&D analysis skills. Several core skills are available in English and Chinese (-zhcn suffix).

Skill	Description
`company-tech-profile`	Single-company technology profile and R&D assessment for a defined technology topic.
`competitive-landscape`	Technology-sector competitive landscape analysis with player tiering and white-space identification.
`tech-route-comparison`	Evidence-backed comparison of technical routes, architectures or solution paths.
`rd-initiation-review`	R&D project initiation pre-screen and proposal audit for go/no-go decisions.
`triz-innovation-pro`	TRIZ innovation solution analysis with component, contact, functional and causal-chain workflows.

IP

Core patent-search skills powered by PatSnap data and related product workflows.

Skill	Description
`free-patent-search`	Patent search powered by PatSnap's free MCP, covering novelty search, lightweight FTO triage, competitive intelligence, legal-status checks and portfolio research.

Life Sciences

Pharmaceutical and biomedical intelligence skills. The original six skills integrate with PatSnap LifeScience MCP services and are available in English and Chinese (-zhcn suffix).

Skill	Description
`biomarker-investigation`	Search academic and patent literature related to biomarkers.
`company-profiling`	Pharmaceutical company profiles and investment/collaboration recommendations.
`disease-investigation`	Disease investigation combining literature, epidemiology, clinical data and pharma intelligence.
`pharmaceuticals-exploration`	Drug-related Q&A covering patents, literature, clinical trials and licensing transactions.
`precision-oncology`	Cancer treatment reports combining literature, clinical guidance and trial data.
`target-intelligence`	Biomedical target analysis with biological and pharmaceutical details.

Materials

Materials science and engineering skills for metals, polymers, ceramics, composites and energy materials.

Skill	Description	MCP
`understand-technology`	Explain materials science concepts, structure-property relationships and processing methods.	-
`scout-tech-landscape`	Analyze technology landscapes including value chains, key players and R&D trends.	-
`solve-tech-problems`	Solution-oriented analysis for materials engineering challenges.	-
`tech-to-product`	Translate materials technologies into real-world products and systems.	-
`alloy-composition-search`	Search, filter and analyze alloy compositions from structured data and patent sources.	`mace-mcp`

MCP Dependencies

Some skills rely on external MCP servers for retrieval. Skills without MCP dependencies can still operate from user-provided context, bundled references, public sources or model reasoning, subject to the limits described in each SKILL.md.

MCP Server / Tooling	Domain	Used By	Capabilities
PatSnap LifeScience MCP	Life Sciences, Open Platform	Original life-sciences skills and imported biomedical Open Platform workflows	Drugs, targets, diseases, biomarkers, companies, patents, papers, clinical trials and related pharma intelligence.
PatSnap / Zhihuiya patent MCP	IP, Open Platform	Free patent search plus imported patent, FTO, portfolio, transfer and competitive-intelligence workflows	Patent retrieval, applicant/topic search, legal status, patent evidence collection and workflow-specific analysis.
`mace-mcp`	Materials	`alloy-composition-search`	Alloy composition extraction: `query_to_alloy` -> `alloy_to_substance` -> `substance_to_document` -> `document_to_alloy`.

Naming And Language

Skill directory names use lowercase hyphen-case and should match the name field in SKILL.md.
Chinese skill variants use the -zhcn suffix when they are a translated counterpart of an English base skill.
Imported Skill Hub / Open Platform skills are mostly Chinese-first workflows and keep their canonical technical names as directory names under open-platform/.
Each SKILL.md front matter should include only name and description unless a host-specific format explicitly requires otherwise.

Specs

README