aris-novelty-checklisted

# Novelty Check Skill Check whether a proposed method/idea has already been done in the literature. The user will provide the method or idea description as part of their request. ## Instructions Given a method description, systematically verify its novelty: ### Phase A: Extract Key Claims 1. Read the user's method description 2. Identify 3-5 core technical claims that would need to be novel: - What is the method? - What problem does it solve? - What is the mechanism? - What makes it different from obvious baselines? ### Phase B: Multi-Source Literature Search For EACH core claim, search using all available web sources: 1. **Web Search**: - Search arXiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar - Use specific technical terms from the claim - Try at least 3 different query formulations per claim - Include year filters for recent work (last 2 years) 2. **Known paper databases**: Check against: - Recent conference proceedings (ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, CVPR, etc.) - Recent arXiv preprints 3. **Read abstracts**: For each potentially overlapping paper, fetch its abstract and related work section ### Phase C: Self-Review Verification After gathering the literature, perform a critical self-review of novelty: 1. Write a dossier (e.g., `NOVELTY_DOSSIER.md`) containing: - The proposed method description - All papers found in Phase B - The question: "Is this method novel? What is the closest prior work? What is the delta?" 2. Review the dossier