paper-reviewer-novelty-check

paper-reviewer-novelty-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LiXin97/agora-lab. It costs 17 tokens per session (47 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review checklist for testing whether a research paper's claim of novelty holds up against closely related work and likely reviewer objections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine novelty claims, compare adjacent research, assess baseline choices, and identify weaknesses reviewers may question.
Why use it?
It helps reveal when a result is presented as new but is too similar to earlier work or lacks clear comparisons and evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to examine novelty claims, compare adjacent research, assess baseline choices, and identify weaknesses reviewers may question.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lixin97/agora-lab/paper-reviewer-novelty-check
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 LiXin97/agora-lab --skill paper-reviewer-novelty-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LiXin97/agora-lab

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 47 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 $0.00017 $0.00047
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00023
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00009
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00005

Measured 13d ago against content hash 9b74c9e82d39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-reviewer-novelty-check 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 13d 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/paper-reviewer-novelty-check/SKILL.md · 9 lines

What it actually says

Paper Reviewer Novelty Check

Ask whether the claimed novelty survives close adjacent work, baseline framing, and reviewer skepticism.

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. 13d ago First seen · 9 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 9b74c9e82d39

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paper-reviewer-novelty-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository LiXin97/agora-lab (49 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 47 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.