Run a prior-art check

This cookbook answers two questions before a concept costs a production day: has someone already run this, and what’s left unclaimed? You don’t run it; your agent does.

Run it

Paste this to your agent, filled in:

Fetch https://tryklint.ai/cookbooks/prior-art-check.md and execute the
cookbook it contains with my context:

- concept: [the script, hook, or idea, in a sentence or two]
- niche: [the market it lives in, e.g. dog grooming]
- window: [how far back to check; default the last 6 months]

The URL carries everything your agent needs. Everything below this line addresses the agent executing it.

Context for the agent

Klint is the social context API: it searches and extracts Instagram posts and accounts, returned with transcripts, on-screen text, and creative structure already analyzed. Base URL https://api.tryklint.ai. Every request needs Authorization: Bearer $KLINT_API_KEY; never print or echo the key. This page is the source of truth for this procedure; work from the fetched copy, not memory. The full documentation index is at https://tryklint.ai/llms.txt, and the whole API contract is at https://tryklint.ai/for-agents/coding-agents.md. Last updated July 18, 2026.

Inputs

Input	What it is	Required	Source
`concept`	The idea being checked, in plain words	yes	operator
`niche`	Market scope for the check	yes	operator
`window`	Lookback period	no; default 6 months	operator
`KLINT_API_KEY`	API key	yes	operator’s environment

Objectives

Produce exactly one artifact: a prior-art table of distinct executions plus a one-paragraph whitespace verdict, in the Output format below. Nothing else counts as done.

Procedure

Search the concept, not its keywords

POST https://api.tryklint.ai/v1/instagram/posts/search. The semantic query matches speech, on-screen text, and visuals, so the concept surfaces even when no caption names it. Phrase the query as the content itself, not as search terms.

{
  "post": {
    "query": "[the concept as content, e.g. transformation reveal of a matted rescue dog groomed back to health]",
    "filters": {
      "posted_at": { "gte": "[window start, RFC 3339]" }
    },
    "author": {
      "filters": { "niches": { "contains_any": ["[niche ID]"] } }
    }
  },
  "limit": 30
}

Widen by construction

Creators often publish the same concept in a different frame. Rerun the sweep with the query loosened to the concept’s mechanism and, where useful, constrained by how the opening works:

{
  "post": {
    "query": "[the concept's mechanism, e.g. dramatic before-and-after grooming transformation]",
    "filters": {
      "hook.modalities": { "contains_any": ["visual", "on_screen_text"] }
    },
    "author": {
      "filters": { "niches": { "contains_any": ["[niche ID]"] } }
    }
  },
  "limit": 30
}

Hook device IDs from the catalog tighten this further when the operator’s concept names a specific construction.

Reduce to distinct executions

Dedupe by author. For each distinct account, GET https://api.tryklint.ai/v1/instagram/posts/{id} on its strongest match and record the execution axes: hook construction, narrative structure, format, offer, length.

Diff against the concept

No API call. Line each observed execution against the operator’s concept on the same axes. Identical on every axis means it’s been done; note who does it best. Different on an axis means that axis is the test. Whitespace is an axis combination nobody in the table occupies.

Verify before you report

Check against the Objectives. Every row cites a post ID and a date. The whitespace paragraph names specific unoccupied axes. The verdict never tells the operator whether to produce. An empty sweep means nothing qualified in this niche and window within what Klint tracks; say exactly that, then offer to widen.

Output format

Use exactly this structure:

# Prior art: [concept], [niche], [window]

| Account | Posted | Execution (hook / structure / format / offer) | Post |
|---|---|---|---|
| @[handle] | [date] | [one line on the axes] | [ID] |

## Whitespace
[One paragraph: which axes are crowded, which combination is unoccupied,
and what the concept would have to keep or change to claim it.]

## Scope
[Niche and window searched, substitutions made, tracking caveats.]

Boundaries

Earliest observed is not the inventor. Klint dates posts from observation, not from platform history it never saw.
Absence means absence in tracked content, not proof nobody on Instagram has done it.
The check informs a production decision; it never makes one. Go or no-go stays with the operator.

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Run a prior-art check

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​Run it

​Context for the agent

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​Objectives

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​Output format

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Run it

Context for the agent

Inputs

Objectives

Procedure

Output format

Boundaries