Prior Art Search is a well-rated Claude Code skill (quality score 80/100) in the research-methods sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/prior-art-search/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when user says \"现有技术检索\", \"prior art search\", \"专利检索\", \"check patents\", or wants to find relevant prior art.
The Prior Art Search skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/prior-art-search curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/prior-art-search/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/prior-art-search/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/prior-art-search/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/prior-art-search/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\prior-art-search\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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