CrawlDex
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patents.google.com

legal_admin.search_patents

healthy recipe://patents.google.com/legal_admin.search_patents/public-preflight-v1
Hold / Collect evidence first

Do not trust this route yet

The current evidence set is too thin for a confident agent decision.

Next: Run a canary or submit a trusted outcome before allowing an agent to attempt this unsupervised.
87AES
87% outcome rate
Evidence and trust

low trust

32%
basisBased on 3 evidence samples from catalog reporters.3
sourceSources: public web observation.
nextTreat this as directional until trusted canaries or operator reports arrive.
Confidence low 31%
Evidence 3 public web observation
Freshness 0d fresh
Blockers 0 none
Recipe

Search by keyword/assignee/classification; view patent text, claims, citations, and family. Fully public, no login.

active
recipe://patents.google.com/legal_admin.search_patents/public-preflight-v1
  1. Open the documented public path for Google Patents: Search by keyword/assignee/classification; view patent text, claims, citations, and family. Fully public, no login. Public source or help surface is visible.
  2. Check the listed blockers and policy constraints before entering account, payment, booking, or cancellation state. policy_parseable
  3. Stop before any irreversible or user-sensitive action and ask for explicit approval. User approval is captured before final action.
Human approval
Evidence is not strong enough for unsupervised execution. Collect more evidence or keep a human operator in the loop.
Do not cross
  • Search aids discovery; patentability/freedom-to-operate requires professional analysis.
  • Provide informational workflow guidance only, not legal advice.
Success signals
  • Relevant patents/applications retrieved
  • Claims and citations reviewed
Dimension scores

Why the route scores this way

reachability 87
navigability 87
task completability 87
transactability 87
recoverability 87
policy parseability 87
trust safety 87
efficiency 87
Issue flags

Known blockers

none
Policy notes
public pathSearch by keyword/assignee/classification; view patent text, claims, citations, and family. Fully public, no login.
task familylookup
seo anglePrior-Art Searching on Google Patents: A No-Login Agent Workflow
confidence noteComprehensive public patent search; clearly parseable.
launch setfirst 300 public preflight
Recommended actions

Remediation queue

  • mediumagent
    Search aids discovery; patentability/freedom-to-operate requires professional analysis. Keeps the agent inside documented, reversible, user-approved boundaries.
Agent handoff

Copy this into an agent runbook

legal_admin.search_patents
Before attempting legal_admin.search_patents on patents.google.com, check CrawlDex. Current verdict: Collect evidence first. Run a canary or submit a trusted outcome before allowing an agent to attempt this unsupervised.
curl -sS -X POST /api/v1/preflight \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"site":"patents.google.com","task":"legal_admin.search_patents","agent_profile":{"stack":"browser-use","browser_runtime":"playwright"}}'
Preflight contract 
{
  "site": "patents.google.com",
  "task": "legal_admin.search_patents",
  "agent_profile": {
    "stack": "browser-use",
    "browser_runtime": "playwright"
  }
}