What problem does it solve? Before investing months into a research project, you need to know whether your proposed method has already been published. This Skill systematically checks a research idea against recent literature so you avoid pursuing work that reviewers would reject as non-novel. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Claim Decomposition: Extracts 3-5 core technical claims from a method description and evaluates each one individually for novelty. - Multi-Source Literature Search: Searches arXiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and recent top venues (ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML) with multiple query formulations per claim. - Cross-Model Verification: Sends a novelty dossier to an external reviewer model via Codex MCP for an independent second opinion, with anti-hallucination verification of every cited paper. - Use Case: You have an idea for a new attention mechanism. Run a novelty check to receive a structured report scoring each claim, listing the closest prior work in a comparison table, and giving a PROCEED / PROCEED WITH CAUTION / ABANDON recommendation with positioning advice. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to run a novelty check on your proposed method, for example by saying "check novelty of my idea: using retrieval-augmented pruning to compress mixture-of-experts models".
