novelty-assessment

novelty-assessment is a skill for Claude Code from lingzhi227/agent-research-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (677 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A workflow for judging whether a research idea is new by repeatedly searching and evaluating existing literature.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching papers, critically comparing related ideas, and producing a justified novel-or-not-novel decision.
Why use it?
It helps identify earlier work that may overlap with an idea before time is spent developing it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Searching papers, critically comparing related ideas, and producing a justified novel-or-not-novel decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lingzhi227/agent-research-skills/novelty-assessment
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 lingzhi227/agent-research-skills --skill novelty-assessment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lingzhi227/agent-research-skills

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.

agentmods badge for novelty-assessment

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lingzhi227/agent-research-skills/novelty-assessment/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lingzhi227/agent-research-skills/novelty-assessment)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lingzhi227/agent-research-skills/novelty-assessment"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lingzhi227/agent-research-skills/novelty-assessment/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for novelty-assessment

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lingzhi227/agent-research-skills/novelty-assessment"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lingzhi227/agent-research-skills/novelty-assessment.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 677 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 22 Feb 2026
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.00043 $0.00677
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00338
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00068

Measured 12d ago against content hash f85838dd1d6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novelty-assessment 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-assessment/SKILL.md · 94 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 94 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A f85838dd1d6c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

novelty-assessment is a skill published in the GitHub repository lingzhi227/agent-research-skills (323 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 677 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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