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name: triz-innovation description: Generate reviewable TRIZ innovation or TRIZ/DFMA cost-reduction concepts and expand a selected concept into a detailed solution by calling the PatSnap Solution Engine MCP endpoint over plain HTTP. Use when an agent has no native MCP client but must solve a product innovation, engineering contradiction, design improvement, component trimming, manufacturing simplification, assembly optimization, or product cost-reduction request through the PatSnap endpoint.

Innovation Assistant by TRIZ

External Service and Privacy Notice

This skill sends the problem description and product information provided by the user to ai-fabric.patsnap.com. Do not submit trade secrets, personal information, proprietary technology protected by an NDA, or export-controlled content. Abstract or redact sensitive information first when necessary.

Before Calling the Service

Extract as much of the following as possible from the user's input:

• The product or system and its boundaries
• The core problem and current design
• The improvement or cost-reduction objective
• Constraints that must be satisfied
• Elements that must not be changed
• Quantifiable acceptance criteria

Call the service directly when enough information is available. Ask the user only when missing information would significantly change the branch selection or solution direction. For noncritical gaps, use clearly labeled assumptions and do not fabricate facts.

Workflow

1. When the tool schema may have changed or a parameter call fails, run bash scripts/mcp_http.sh list --result-only to retrieve the live definitions.
2. Select and stay within one task branch:
   • For innovation, technical contradictions, product improvements, or functional optimization, use run_triz_innovation_task.
   • For cost reduction, component trimming, DFMA, or manufacturing or assembly simplification, use run_triz_reduction_task.
3. Solution tasks may run for a long time; the default timeout is 900 seconds. The script outputs results only after completion and does not stream SSE progress in real time. Do not automatically retry a long-running task after a failure, because doing so may create a duplicate task. Report the error first and let the user decide whether to retry.
4. Check status first. Treat candidates as complete only when the status is completed. For failed or timeout, show terminal_event_type and any available information, and do not call a detail tool.
5. By default, show the candidate identified by recommended_idea_id and up to four candidates in total. Do not invent scores or ranking rationales that the service did not return.
6. When the user asks to “show more,” display candidates from the same candidate_ideas collection that have not yet been shown. If candidate_ideas_truncated=true, explain that the response retains only the first 50 candidates and that the current tool does not support pagination for the remainder. When the user asks to compare solutions, compare their principles, benefits, risks, constraint fit, and implementation difficulty.
7. After the user selects a solution or asks to expand its details, call the detail tool from the same branch using the original job_id and the selected idea_id:
   • For innovation tasks, use only fetch_triz_innovation_solution_detail.
   • For cost-reduction tasks, use only fetch_triz_reduction_solution_detail.
   • Do not mix IDs or detail tools across branches.

Presenting Results

Candidates come from candidate_ideas. Show idea_title, idea_id, idea_summary, problem, analysis_method, triz_principle, cost_reduction_amount, dfma_strategy, evaluation, and score_overall when those fields are present. Display job_id explicitly. For a missing field, write “Not returned by the service” rather than filling it in. If a candidate's images or the top-level solution_images is nonempty, you may display the images returned by the service.

Innovation results may also include the top-level fields system_component_analysis, component_touch_analysis, functional_modeling, system_structure_analysis, and causal_chain_analysis. Cost-reduction results may also include component_cost_mapping, cost_component, cost_trim, dfma_component, dfma_directions, and dfma_concept_solutions. These structured analysis fields are optional; their absence does not mean the task failed.

For detail calls, also confirm that status=completed. Prefer resolved_idea_id when verifying which solution was actually generated. Use detail_source, solution_detail, and display_markdown together to determine whether the details are complete. Prefer display_markdown for presentation while preserving the structured facts in solution_detail. Clearly distinguish MCP-returned content from the agent's own inferences.

Examples

bash scripts/mcp_http.sh call run_triz_innovation_task --result-only \
  --arguments '{"user_input":"Improve heat dissipation without increasing enclosure size."}'

bash scripts/mcp_http.sh call run_triz_reduction_task --result-only \
  --arguments '{"user_input":"Reduce assembly cost by 15% without lowering IP67 performance."}'

bash scripts/mcp_http.sh call fetch_triz_innovation_solution_detail --result-only \
  --arguments '{"job_id":"<job-id>","idea_id":"<idea-id>"}'

Output and Dependencies

By default, the script outputs the complete JSON-RPC response, with the tool result under .result. With --result-only, it first outputs .result.structuredContent; if that is absent, it parses the first text item in .result.content; if that is also absent, it outputs .result.

The script requires Bash, curl, and jq:

# macOS
brew install curl jq

# Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt-get install -y curl jq

# RHEL / Fedora
sudo dnf install -y curl jq

Always locate the script relative to this SKILL.md. For HTTP, JSON-RPC, tool-level, empty-response, timeout, or parameter errors, report the key error verbatim and correct the input.

Looking for a More Powerful Experience?

For deeper patent integration, interactive analysis, solution visualization, and a complete R&D innovation workflow, use Eureka RD. It is a separate, enhanced experience and does not imply that the current MCP endpoint provides all of these capabilities.