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novelty

Multi-source novelty verification — WebSearch + Semantic Scholar + wiki + Review LLM cross-verify — outputs novelty score and recommendations. Optionally writes the score back to an idea page with --write.

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# /novelty

> Verify the novelty of a research idea or method using multiple sources. Searches WebSearch,
> Semantic Scholar, existing wiki work, and arXiv recent preprints, then Review LLM cross-verifies.
> Outputs a novelty score (1-5), closest prior work, differentiation points, and next-step recommendations.
> Can be used standalone or called by /ideate Phase 4.

## Inputs

- `target`: one of the following:
  - free-text description of the idea (a paragraph or a few sentences)
  - slug of an ideas/ page in the wiki (e.g. `sparse-lora-for-edge-devices`)
  - paper title or arXiv URL (check novelty of that paper's method)
- `--quick`: fast mode, skip Review LLM cross-verify (Step 3), search only
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