aris-novelty-check

aris-novelty-check is a skill for Claude Code from OpenLAIR/dr-claw. It costs 50 tokens per session (804 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A tool for checking whether a research idea appears to be new by comparing it with recent academic literature. Academic literature means published research papers and related scholarly work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate the novelty of a research idea before starting development.
Why use it?
It helps reveal whether similar work may already exist before you spend time implementing the idea.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to investigate the novelty of a research idea before starting development.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openlair/dr-claw/aris-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 OpenLAIR/dr-claw --skill aris-novelty-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenLAIR/dr-claw

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 804 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 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 $0.00050 $0.00804
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00080

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8f3b832fb4bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aris-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 11d 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/aris-novelty-check/SKILL.md · 91 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 11d ago First seen · 91 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 8f3b832fb4bb

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aris-novelty-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenLAIR/dr-claw (1,091 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 804 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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