novelty-competitive-audit

novelty-competitive-audit is a skill for Claude Code from jeonnoin-alt/Eureka. It costs 91 tokens per session (3,152 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of whether a research paper is still original and competitive against recent studies. It checks whether newer work has already made the same contribution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before submitting a manuscript to search recent literature, test whether the contribution remains distinct, and flag possible overlap.
Why use it?
A study can be internally correct but no longer novel if another paper has appeared, so this catches that problem before submission.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the Eureka plugin — 16 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before submitting a manuscript to search recent literature, test whether the contribution remains distinct, and flag possible overlap.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeonnoin-alt/eureka/novelty-competitive-audit
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.

Any agent
npx skills add jeonnoin-alt/Eureka --skill novelty-competitive-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeonnoin-alt/Eureka

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install Eureka, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,152 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00091 $0.03152
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01576
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00630
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00315

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5d57c79ddfae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novelty-competitive-audit 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 12d 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.

skills/novelty-competitive-audit/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Novelty Competitive Audit

Overview

Eureka's internal rigor gates (claims-audit, research-reviewer, figure-design) verify that the manuscript is internally consistent — every number traces, every figure is reproducible, every statistical claim is sound. They do NOT verify external competitiveness — whether the field already knows this, whether someone preempted the work in the 6-12 months between design approval and submission, or whether the claimed contribution altitude is still defensible against recent literature.

This skill is the external competitiveness gate, fired before submission.

Core premise: editors' first desk-reject filter is "does this advance the field?" A manuscript with 96/100 PASS on internal rigor will still desk-reject if a preempt paper appeared during manuscript preparation. This skill catches that failure mode before submission.

The Iron Law

NO SUBMISSION WITHOUT EXTERNAL NOVELTY VERIFICATION.
INTERNAL 96/100 PASS ≠ FIELD-LEVEL COMPETITIVENESS.
RIGOR IS NECESSARY. IT IS NOT SUFFICIENT.

Internal rigor can be perfect and the paper can still desk-reject on the editor's first read — because the field moved. This skill is not optional.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Manuscript draft is complete (all sections passed section-reviewer, Abstract written last per manuscript-writing rules)
  • Before invoking submission-readiness — this skill is the 5th prerequisite of that skill's Step 1 gate
  • When a new preempt paper is spotted mid-revision — re-run to decide whether to reframe or narrow
  • When target venue changes — different venues have different novelty bars (narrative-guide.md section "Venue-specific altitude tuning")

Do NOT use when:

  • At design time — research-brainstorming Step 3 literature gap handles pre-data novelty. This skill is the submission-time complement, covering the 6-12 months of field drift since design approval
  • Mid-experiment — too early to audit; claims aren't finalized yet
  • To substitute for research-brainstorming Step 3 — the two are complementary, not interchangeable

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 192 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 5d57c79ddfae

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novelty-competitive-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeonnoin-alt/Eureka (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 3,152 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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