novelty-assessment

What problem does it solve?

Researchers often struggle to determine whether a proposed contribution truly advances the field or merely restates existing work. This skill provides a structured novelty assessment that benchmarks against closest prior works, highlights overlap, and suggests concrete differentiation strategies.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Related Work Identification: extracts 3-5 closest related works from literature review outputs, or uses WebSearch or user-provided lists to identify candidates.
• Contribution Comparison Matrix: builds a table comparing problem setting, method, key insights, and evaluation for each related work versus the proposal.
• Novelty Classification: assigns a category (novel method, novel application, novel analysis, scale improvement, incremental) based on the delta.
• Venue Calibration: assesses whether the delta meets the novelty requirements of target venues.
• Output Enforcement: ensures the pipeline proceeds only when novelty is non-NOT NOVEL and records findings in novelty-assessment.md.
• Differentiation Suggestions: proposes concrete strategies to increase novelty when needed.

Quick Start

Provide your literature review and your proposed contribution to receive a novelty assessment.