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Agent skill

Intellectual Property

by cbrock84 in cbrock84/headcount

Covers what the organization owns and what it is only borrowing — trademarks and clearance, copyright and work-for-hire, patents and trade secrets, open-source license obligations and copyleft…

MITAuto-check passedLegal & Compliance

Install Intellectual Property

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill intellectual-property -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount intellectual-property --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/legal-risk/skills/intellectual-property .claude/skills/intellectual-property && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
intellectual-property
GitHub stars
2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
727 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
178
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Covers what the organization owns and what it is only borrowing — trademarks and clearance, copyright and work-for-hire, patents and trade secrets, open-source license obligations and copyleft…

  • Tasks that involve Intellectual property
  • SKILL.md covers The four rights protect…, Clear a name before you build…, Establish ownership of work… and Open-source obligations are…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Regulatory compliance

What it does

Intellectual Property is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Covers what the organization owns and what it is only borrowing — trademarks and clearance, copyright and work-for-hire, patents and trade secrets, open-source license obligations and copyleft reach, and IP terms in customer, contractor and AI-tool agreements. Use this to check whether a name is usable, establish that you own work you paid for, decide how to handle a license obligation in a dependency, or respond to an infringement claim.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/sources.md`).

It sits in Legal & Compliance, covering Intellectual property and Regulatory compliance. The repository describes itself as: An agent organization structured as a company — 15+ departments, 125+ skills, each independently installable, citing the standards and regulators that settle the question. Runs… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Intellectual property
  • Tasks that involve Regulatory compliance

Example prompts

  • “Use the intellectual-property skill to cover what the organization owns and what it is only borrowing — trademarks and clearance, copyright and…”
  • “/intellectual-property”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 98d1c17. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Intellectual Property loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 116 tokens; SKILL.md has 727 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~116
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from cbrock84/headcount at commit 98d1c17, republished under its MIT licence (© cbrock84). 727 words, ~1,324 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/intellectual-property/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
intellectual-property
description
Covers what the organization owns and what it is only borrowing — trademarks and clearance, copyright and work-for-hire, patents and trade secrets, open-source license obligations and copyleft reach, and IP terms in customer, contractor and AI-tool agreements. Use this to check whether a name is usable, establish that you own work you paid for, decide how to handle a license obligation in a dependency, or respond to an infringement claim.

Intellectual property

Most IP damage is done quietly and early — by a name adopted without a search, a contractor agreement missing an assignment clause, or a dependency added without reading its license. All three are cheap to prevent and expensive to unwind.

This structures the questions and the recurring failure patterns. IP rights are jurisdictional, deadline-driven and fact-specific — get qualified counsel before adopting a name, filing anything, or responding to a claim.

The four rights protect different things and are not interchangeable

  • Trademark protects a name or mark as an indicator of source, within classes of goods and services and within territories. Rights come from use and are strengthened by registration.
  • Copyright protects expression, not ideas. It arises automatically on creation; registration matters mainly for what you can recover in a dispute.
  • Patent protects an invention, in exchange for publishing it, and is defeated by your own prior public disclosure in many regimes. If patenting is plausible, file before you present, publish, or demonstrate.
  • Trade secret protects information whose value depends on being secret, for as long as you actually keep it secret — which requires demonstrable measures, not just intent.

Clear a name before you build on it

A search is cheap; a rebrand after launch is not, and the cost lands after you have printed material, bought domains, and built recognition. Search registered marks in the classes and territories you will operate in, and check for confusingly similar marks rather than exact matches.

Domain availability tells you nothing about trademark risk. Neither does the absence of a company with that exact name.

Establish ownership of work you paid for, in writing, before it starts

This is the most common and most avoidable failure in the whole area.

  • Employee work is often owned by the employer by default, but the default varies by jurisdiction and by whether the work relates to the job.
  • Contractor and agency work is usually owned by the contractor unless the agreement assigns it. A paid invoice is not an assignment. Logos, code, photography, and copy commissioned without an assignment clause routinely turn out to be licensed rather than owned — discovered during diligence, at the worst possible time.
  • Get assignment plus a waiver of moral rights where they apply, and confirm the contractor had the right to assign anything they incorporated.
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Open-source obligations are license terms, not etiquette

Every dependency carries a license with conditions, and the conditions attach to distribution.

  • Permissive licenses mostly require attribution and notice retention. Cheap, but not zero — the notices have to actually ship.
  • Strong copyleft can require you to offer source for the combined work you distribute. Whether it reaches your code depends on how you combine and whether you distribute, and that analysis is worth doing before adoption rather than before a release.
  • Network copyleft treats providing the software as a service as triggering the obligation, which surprises teams who assumed a hosted product avoids distribution entirely.

Maintain an inventory of dependencies and their licenses, generated rather than maintained by hand, and gate new licenses at the point of adoption. Removing a dependency after it is embedded is a project.

Read the IP terms in agreements you sign

In customer contracts, watch for ownership of deliverables and of anything developed during the engagement, broad license grants back to the customer, and feedback clauses assigning your improvements. In tooling agreements, including AI services, check what rights are claimed over your inputs and outputs and whether your content trains anything.

Responding to a claim

Do not reply substantively before counsel sees it, do not admit anything, and preserve everything — a claim letter triggers a preservation obligation immediately. Check whether insurance responds, and check the indemnity you may hold from a supplier whose component is the actual subject.

Sources

references/sources.md in this skill lists the outside authorities that settle the questions here — what each one is authoritative for, and what you may do with it. Check them before answering on anything they cover, and cite what you used. Most are free to read and not free to reproduce; the use note on each is binding.

Never

  • Adopt a name on the strength of domain availability.
  • Commission work without a written assignment signed before the work starts.
  • Add a dependency without knowing its license and what it requires on distribution.
  • Respond to an infringement claim before counsel has seen it.

© cbrock84, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in plugins/legal-risk/skills/intellectual-property of cbrock84/headcount.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/sources.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17

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Questions about Intellectual Property

What does Intellectual Property do?

Covers what the organization owns and what it is only borrowing — trademarks and clearance, copyright and work-for-hire, patents and trade secrets, open-source license obligations and copyleft…. Intellectual Property is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Covers what the organization owns and what it is only borrowing — trademarks and clearance, copyright and work-for-hire, patents and trade secrets, open-source license obligations and copyleft reach, and IP terms in customer, contractor and AI-tool agreements.

When should I use Intellectual Property?

Intellectual Property fits situations like: tasks that involve Intellectual property; tasks that involve Regulatory compliance.

How do I install Intellectual Property in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill intellectual-property -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/legal-risk/skills/intellectual-property in cbrock84/headcount) into .claude/skills/intellectual-property in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Intellectual Property in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill intellectual-property -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/legal-risk/skills/intellectual-property in cbrock84/headcount) into .agents/skills/intellectual-property in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Intellectual Property in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill intellectual-property -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/intellectual-property, .gemini/skills/intellectual-property, .github/skills/intellectual-property and .opencode/skills/intellectual-property in your project.

What does Intellectual Property need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Intellectual Property is instructions for the agent only.

Does Intellectual Property access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Intellectual Property safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Intellectual Property use?

Intellectual Property is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Intellectual Property use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 490 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Intellectual Property?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Intellectual Property: Prior Art Scout (n1m21n/Infinite, 271 stars), Legal Compliance (travisjneuman/.claude, 100 stars), Find Law Firm (jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, 2.8k stars) and Sealeap Bixie Amazon Unmet Demand Keyword To Product (xjli360/sealeap-amazon-skills, 251 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Intellectual Property?

cbrock84 (a GitHub user) maintains it in cbrock84/headcount, which has 2,022 GitHub stars. The repository holds 178 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 17, 2026.

Source: cbrock84/headcount on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.