What problem does it solve? Before choosing an architecture, a product team must know which laws and standards actually bind it — and a fabricated citation or an unrecorded search is worse than no survey at all. This Skill structures that regulatory prior-art survey so every obligation traces to the issuing body's own published text and every search is recorded as run. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Four-wave survey workflow: mint a regulatory scope map, execute one search angle across primary-law registers and standards catalogs, deep-read one instrument into its obligations, then build the regulatory register with merged mandates and escalated conflicts. - Schema-validated artifacts: every output (scope map, search grid, extract record, register) is checked by a bundled validation script against JSON schemas, so a recorded zero is distinguishable from a search that never ran. - Anti-fabrication discipline: mines only issuing-body text, never quotes paywalled or unreachable instruments, separates authority from binding force, and records sanitization of fetched pages against prompt injection. - Use Case: Before architecting a health-data product sold in the EU and UK, run the survey to produce a register of applicable instruments (GDPR, AI Act, accessibility law), merged architecture mandates, and conflicts flagged for counsel. ## Quick Start Use regulatory-prior-art-survey to map the regulatory obligations binding my product scope and build the regulatory register.