How the FlowLeap Marketplace works

What Skill Packs and MCP servers are, the three ways to install them, and what to do when something does not work.

The FlowLeap Marketplace is where you add new abilities to your patent agent. Everything in it is chosen and maintained by the FlowLeap team, and all of it is free to install. This page explains what you are looking at and how installing works.

What you can install

The marketplace has two kinds of add-ons.

Skill Packs teach your agent how to do patent work. A skill is a written playbook — for example, how to run a freedom-to-operate search, how to break a claim into elements, or how to build a prior-art report. A pack is a bundle of related skills. Once a pack is installed, you can ask your agent to run those workflows in plain language and it knows the right steps to follow.

MCP servers give your agent new tools. Where a skill is know-how, an MCP server is a connection — it plugs your agent into an outside data source or service so it can look things up and act. FlowLeap's own server, for instance, connects your agent to live patent, citation, and legal data.

You do not need to understand the machinery to use either one. Install a pack or a server, and its abilities show up the next time you work with your agent.

Three ways to install

Which path you use depends on where you are and which agent you want to extend.

One click from a marketplace page

On any pack or server page, choose Install in FlowLeap (or Open in FlowLeap for a server). Your browser hands off to the FlowLeap desktop app, and the app shows a confirmation dialog naming exactly what is about to be installed and where it comes from. Nothing is added until you confirm. This is the fastest path if you already have the FlowLeap app.

From inside the FlowLeap app

You can also browse and install without leaving the app. Open the Agent Customizations window (the gear icon), then:

Plugins — switch to browse mode to see the skill packs and install them.
MCP Servers — choose Browse Marketplace to see the available servers.

When you install an MCP server this way, the app prompts you for any keys or credentials that server needs before it turns on. Installed packs and servers appear in these same two sections, so this is also where you go to see what you already have.

In another agent with `npx skills add`

The same FlowLeap skills work in other AI coding agents, such as Claude Code and Cursor. From your terminal, run:

npx skills add abdullahatrash/flowleap-plugins

This installs the skills into whichever agent you are using, so you get the same patent workflows outside the FlowLeap app. (This path installs skills only — MCP servers are added through the in-app gallery.)

Free, curated, forever

Everything in the marketplace is free to install and will stay that way. The FlowLeap team curates every pack and server so you can trust what you are adding, and there is no third-party clutter to sort through. Packs and servers update themselves automatically — roughly once a day — so the workflows and tools you rely on stay current without you reinstalling anything.

Submit a skill

Have a patent workflow worth sharing? You can propose a skill for the marketplace. Submissions are curated — you open a request, the FlowLeap team reviews it, and we merge the ones that help. You do not need to be a developer, and if you work through an AI agent it can do the steps for you. It comes down to three:

Fork the flowleap-plugins repository.
Add your skill folder — a short SKILL.md playbook — using the copy-paste template.
Open a pull request, and answer the three short questions the template asks.

The full recipe, in plain language, is in the contributor guide. It explains what a skill is, the few rules that keep it working everywhere (drive the FlowLeap CLI, keep the description clear, avoid anything that goes out of date), and how to check your work before you submit.

Troubleshooting

What you see	What is happening	What to do
You clicked Install in FlowLeap and nothing happened	The one-click path needs the FlowLeap desktop app, and it is not installed on this computer.	Download FlowLeap, then click Install again.
You are not sure a pack or server installed	Installs only complete after you confirm the dialog naming the pack and its source.	Open Agent Customizations (gear icon) → Plugins or MCP Servers to see everything you have.
A pack feels out of date	Packs and servers update on their own, about once a day.	No action needed — updates arrive automatically. If you want the latest immediately, reopen the app.
An MCP server will not connect	Many servers need a key or credential to work.	Open Agent Customizations → MCP Servers, find the server, and add the key it asks for.
You want the skills in Claude Code or Cursor, not the app	Skills are portable to other agents.	Run `npx skills add abdullahatrash/flowleap-plugins` in that agent's project.

Browse the FlowLeap Marketplace
Download FlowLeap for your platform
FlowLeap CLI — run patent research from your terminal
Contribute a skill to the marketplace