idea-novelty-auditor

Idea Novelty Auditor

Scope

Use this skill when the user asks whether a research idea is novel, defensible, worth writing, how to position it, what baselines may invalidate it, how reviewers may attack it, what claims should be avoided, or what experiments are required before packaging.

For a full audit, read references/idea_novelty_risk_audit.md.

Use another skill when the task is primarily:

• literature review, related work, reference selection, citation-role assignment, or direct-competitor coverage after the idea boundary is known: use problem-driven-literature-review (if available);
• manuscript structure or section rewriting after the defensible claims are known: use paper-argument-reconstructor (if available);
• TeX-safe academic English polishing: use paper-polisher (if available).
• auditing an existing experiment section or concrete experiment plan against fixed claims, ablations, resource constraints, and results narration: use experiment-section-auditor (if available).

If the user asks for "packaging" before novelty has been checked, run the novelty-risk audit first.

Verification Mode

This skill has two modes. By default it audits as described above. When the input is a positioning, claim, or contribution statement another tool or skill has already drafted, switch to verification mode instead of re-auditing from scratch:

• do not overwrite the other tool's wording;
• check it against this skill's discipline: whether novelty is overstated, whether a dangerous baseline was missed, and whether any claim is stronger than the evidence allows;
• report only the deviations; tighten an overclaim in place only if it breaks the evidence discipline.

The suite's value is bounded, defensible claims, not a competing rewrite. Verify rather than replace what a stronger generator already produced.

Core Principle

Audit before packaging:

break it down -> compare with known paradigms -> identify dangerous baselines -> define what cannot be claimed -> define cautious claims -> design evidence -> then package the paper story