name: novelty-check
description: >
Assess whether a biomedical finding is novel compared to existing
knowledge in the BioTeam-AI Lab Knowledge Base. Uses semantic search
and LLM assessment to score novelty from 0.0 (well-known) to 1.0
(completely novel).
metadata:
author: bioteam-ai
version: "1.0"
domain: biomedical-research
allowed-tools: Bash(python:*) Read
Novelty Check Skill
When to Activate
- User asks "is this finding new?" or "has this been reported before?"
- User wants to assess the novelty of experimental results
- User needs to compare findings against existing literature
Usage
cd backend && uv run python -m app.skills.novelty_cli --finding "your finding description"
Process
- Search ChromaDB literature collection for similar findings
- Search Lab KB for related internal results
- LLM assessment of novelty vs retrieved evidence
- Return novelty score with reasoning and similar existing work
By