novelty-bonus

name	novelty-bonus
description	Compute novelty score for a candidate descriptor via k-NN distance in archive descriptor space.
trigger	qd-archive-update
allowed_tools	["python"]
output	json {novelty}

novelty-bonus

Wraps oniro.orchestrator.novelty.novelty(archive, descriptor, k=5).

Use

Called from qd-archive-update to decide whether a gate-rejected mutation still warrants a provisional slot. Threshold: novelty > 0.7.

Output

{ "novelty": 0.83 }