What problem does it solve? Before investing months into implementing a research idea, you need to know whether someone has already done it. This Skill systematically checks a proposed method against recent literature so you avoid duplicating existing work or making false novelty claims. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Claim Extraction: Breaks a method description into 3-5 core technical claims that each need to be novel. - Multi-Source Literature Search: Searches arXiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and recent top venues (ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML) with multiple query formulations per claim. - Structured Novelty Report: Produces a per-claim novelty rating, a closest-prior-work table, an overall score out of 10, and a PROCEED / PROCEED WITH CAUTION / ABANDON recommendation with positioning advice. - Use Case: You have an idea for a new attention mechanism. Run a novelty check to find the closest 2024-2026 papers, learn exactly where your idea overlaps, and get suggestions on how to frame the contribution. ## Quick Start Use the novelty-check skill to verify whether my proposed method of combining sparse mixture-of-experts with retrieval-augmented fine-tuning has already been published.
