paper-opportunity-radar

Paper Opportunity Radar

Treat the literature as an evidence base to traverse over time, not a feed to summarize. Build a cumulative corpus, audit important papers at claim level, look for what happened after publication, and turn only defensible gaps into testable opportunities.

This skill runs when invoked. It does not silently create a background scheduler. If the user wants a daily cadence, preserve resumable state and give their scheduler the recurring prompt in Daily Operation. Never say monitoring is active until a recurring job actually exists.

Non-negotiable Standards

• Never claim exhaustive coverage without a bounded corpus. Define the databases, query strings, dates, languages, document types, and traversal cursor. Say "all records returned by this protocol," not "all papers ever."
• Fact-check at claim level. Every factual statement in a report needs a fetched source. Mark interpretations as INFERENCE and gaps as UNKNOWN.
• A paper verifies what its authors reported, not that the result is true. Independent replication, convergent evidence, or real-world validation is a separate evidence layer.
• Do not infer fraud. Use INTEGRITY CONCERN for observable anomalies. Use RETRACTED, CORRECTED, or FORMAL MISCONDUCT FINDING only when the publisher, institution, court, or regulator supports that status.
• Citation count is attention, not validity. Peer review, venue prestige, author reputation, and code availability are signals to inspect, never proof.
• Absence of search results is not proof of novelty. Report exactly where, how, and when prior art was searched and use NOT FOUND IN SEARCH.
• Keep four judgments separate: evidence strength, unexploredness confidence, implementation feasibility, and real-world value. Never average them into one score that hides a fatal weakness.

Inputs and Defaults

Require a topic. Infer the remaining inputs when safe:

• decision: explore a business, find a project, understand feasibility, or monitor scientific progress;
• historical horizon: earliest searchable record through today by default;
• domains and adjacent fields;
• geography, language, and publication-type limits;
• available skills, capital, equipment, compute, data, and time;
• daily depth: standard by default; brief or deep when requested.