Novelty Check

Before you sink weeks into a research idea, this skill runs a systematic novelty check against recent literature. It breaks your proposed method into core technical claims, searches across arXiv, Google Scholar, and major venue proceedings, then calls a reasoning model to assess overlap with prior work. You get a brutally honest report scoring each claim, identifying the closest papers, and suggesting how to position the work if it's still viable. The skill enforces strict citation verification to avoid hallucinated references and includes cross-model validation with high reasoning effort. Best used when you have a concrete method description and need to know if someone already published it in the last conference cycle.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add wanshuiyin/auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep --skill novelty-check --agent claude-code