novelty-check

Screening candidate ideas involves reading project briefs, literature reviews, and candidate artifacts to conservatively evaluate each option and surface a single winner for experiment planning.

A novelty check during Phase 1 bootstrap conservatively evaluates multiple candidate ideas against your literature review to identify a single primary concept, preparing the project for experiment planning.

You need to perform idea screening when an idea-candidates.md file exists and bootstrap is required to set up the experiment plan, ensuring only a single primary idea moves forward into planning.

Yes, the novelty screening process reads existing project briefs and literature reviews to conservatively screen candidate artifacts, optionally using cross-model advisory feedback to validate the final choice and establish guardrails.

After screening ideas, the process writes a novelty-check.md bootstrap artifact documenting the evaluation and updates STATE.md with the selected primary idea to maintain project state management.

Yes, idea screening functions by conservatively evaluating candidates to write the novelty-check artifact and update STATE.md, while cross-model advisory feedback is an optional feature to validate the choice and guardrails.