BC trademark-search-robb-miller
Run an attorney-facing knockout/availability trademark search across the United States and Canada. Use whenever a user (founder, client, or attorney) asks whether a brand, mark, name, logo, slogan, or product name is "available," "free to use," "clearable," or "already taken" — or asks Claude to "search the trademark register," "check USPTO," "check CIPO," "do a knockout search," "clearance search," "availability search," or "see if [mark] is trademarked." Trigger even when the user phrases it casually ("can I call my company X?", "is this name taken?"). Covers federal USPTO (TESS/TSDR), federal Canada (CIPO), common-law/web/state, and WIPO Madrid international. Output is a knockout availability memo with green/yellow/red verdict for attorney review. Includes professional-responsibility gating (AI-use disclosure, conflict check, scope confirmation) before substantive analysis. Not legal advice — produces work product for attorney sign-off.
Run an attorney-facing knockout/availability trademark search across the United States and Canada.
As a process C 54/100 · Has gaps — References files that are not bundled: references/uspto-syntax.md, references/nice-classes.md, references/confusion-factors.md
How to improve
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 8. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/uspto-syntax.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/nice-classes.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/confusion-factors.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/cipo-syntax.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/memo-template.md - note
edit-residuethe text marks something as outdated (lines 55): check that old rules are not kept next to new ones — the full check reads the text for contradictions
Process rating: all ten parameters 54/100
- 0Tools and files. 5 referenced file(s) missing: references/uspto-syntax.md, references/nice-classes.md, references/confusion-factors.md
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 40Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 70Failures and branches. 5 branches
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 4153 tokens
- 100Steps. 48 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Description length 953: 120–800 characters recommended
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 13 example trigger phrases
- +4Structure: 15 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 48 items
- +4Has examples (1 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 74.