research-novelty-review

name	research-novelty-review
description	Evaluate the novelty and significance of research papers using grounded comparisons, method changes, and evidence quality. Use when a workflow step needs novelty assessment rather than a plain summary.

Research Novelty Review

Use this skill for novelty-focused analysis of one paper or a small paper batch.

Evaluate

• What changed relative to common prior approaches
• Whether the change is conceptual, architectural, data-related, or evaluation-related
• Whether the evidence supports the claimed novelty
• Whether the contribution seems incremental, meaningful, or potentially overstated

Output shape

• Claimed novelty
• Likely real novelty
• Evidence supporting novelty
• Evidence weakening the claim
• Overall significance

Rules

• Be skeptical of broad “first” or “state-of-the-art” claims.
• Distinguish novelty from good engineering.
• Distinguish novelty from scale-only improvements.
• If prior-work context is weak, say so explicitly instead of overclaiming.