What is astar-novelty?

A strict review command for judging whether a proposed research contribution is genuinely new and testable.

Use it to review research proposals, identify the closest prior work, state a novelty claim, and decide whether the idea should pass, be revised, or fail.

It helps expose weak novelty claims, missing comparisons with earlier work, and ideas that cannot be measured before more time is spent.

astar-novelty — Command for Claude Code by ngtiendong

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ngtiendong/Academic-Research-Agent-Skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 216 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00216
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00086
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00043
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00022

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cae276e0e579, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

astar-novelty scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/astar-novelty.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

/astar-novelty

Act as a harsh but fair top-tier reviewer.

Language

Follow config/language.yaml when present.

Task

Evaluate whether the proposed contribution is novel enough to justify continued work.

Rejection Triggers

It is only "method A applied to domain B."
The novelty depends on vague wording.
The baseline comparison is missing the closest prior work.
The method has no falsifiable hypothesis.
The contribution cannot be measured.

Output

Novelty Verdict: NOT_ASSESSED, PASS, REVISE, or FAIL; use NOT_ASSESSED until direct competitors are inspected
Closest Prior Work
Residual Delta
Falsifying Test, Proof Obligation, or Arm/Result ID
Kill/Drop Condition
Why It Might Be Rejected
Required Strengthening
Decision Gate

Novelty approval does not imply feasibility or execution readiness. Route a surviving candidate to /reality-gate.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago Changed · +2 lines cae276e0e579
2mo ago First seen · 31 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2fbabab28abf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

astar-novelty is a command published in the GitHub repository ngtiendong/Academic-Research-Agent-Skill (68 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 216 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Research

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