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/	119	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 and 2026-07-09 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
Engineering / R&D source category	33
IP source category	61
Life Sciences source category	7
Additional skill-20 batch	20
Total imported skill directories	119

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.