intellectual-property SKILL.md skillA
intellectual-property from cbrock84/headcount is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/intellectual-property@git:20260916.0e7cd01Pins git:20260916.0e7cd01 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cbrock84/headcount
- Path
plugins/legal-risk/skills/intellectual-property/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260916.0e7cd01, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 1, 2026
- Size
- 5,310 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
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.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# 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. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/intellectual-property@sha256:95e4bb06fc4aef6fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.0e7cd01, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_5ggrvb3dnowm2l7b)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 15 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260916.0e7cd01 latest | 2026-09-16 | 0e7cd01 | 5,310 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.d41b3ae | 2026-09-01 | d41b3ae | 4,971 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5310 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
cbrock84/headcount · 2,543 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5ggrvb3dnowm2l7b GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/intellectual-property GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/95e4bb06fc4aef6f6c500c6820834e443fecc8c257f48f91d27311948fbb4514
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.