Patlas is an MCP server giving your AI agent real prior-art patent search. Ask an idea in plain English, or point the free patent-scan skill at your own codebase to surface mechanisms worth checking — even ones you never thought to search for. Every result is validated against the real retrieved patent text before it's shown: no invented patent IDs, no fabricated quotes. Not legal advice — a fast, honest first signal before you talk to an attorney.
Hey PH 👋 — the usual "has someone patented this?" tools all require you to already know what to search for. Most builders don't — you just build the feature, you don't sit down and think "let me search for my dose-response fallback algorithm."
So the feature I'm most excited about is patent-scan: point a coding AI agent (Claude Code, in my testing) at your own repo, and it reads through your actual source, pulls out the mechanisms worth a second look, and runs each through real patent search automatically — without your code ever leaving your machine or reaching Patlas itself.
Every result is grounded against the real retrieved patent text — no invented patent IDs or fabricated quotes. Free tier to try, $0.40/call after. Would love feedback, especially on the patent-scan flow.