flowleap-citationlisted
Install: claude install-skill flowleap-ai/flowleap-plugins
# FlowLeap Citation Search (USPTO enriched citations)
Auth and global flags: see `flowleap-shared`.
## Which citation universe?
FlowLeap exposes two, and neither is a superset of the other:
- **This skill** — USPTO **office-action enriched** citations: US only, drawn
from examiner reasoning, with X/Y/A relevance categories. Use it for novelty
risk, what an examiner actually cited, and how often a document is cited
against later US applications.
- **`flowleap-patstat-graph`** — the **worldwide DOCDB citation network** from
the PATSTAT snapshot, with examiner-vs-applicant origin, confidence tags,
and row-level provenance. Use it for citation structure across offices, the
path between two patents, or a patent's whole citation picture in one call.
Pick by whether the question is about US examiner reasoning (here) or
worldwide citation structure (there). PATSTAT answers are snapshot data with a
Data Edition; these are live USPTO records.
## By application
```bash
flowleap --json citation search 16123456 --size 20
flowleap --json citation search 16123456 --category x --examiner-cited-only
```
## Forward citations (who cites this document)
```bash
flowleap --json citation forward US10123456 --size 20
```
## Analysis shortcuts
```bash
flowleap --json citation stats 16123456 # counts by category/source
flowleap --json citation novelty 16123456 # X-rated novelty-destroying citations
```
Categories: `x` (novelty-destroying), `y` (inventive-step with combi