survey-and-audit-novelty SKILL.md skillA
survey-and-audit-novelty from gxcaesar/open-research-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gxcaesar/open-research-skills/survey-and-audit-novelty@git:20260909.71c1b78Pins git:20260909.71c1b78 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gxcaesar/open-research-skills
- Path
skills/survey-and-audit-novelty/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260909.71c1b78, committed Sep 9, 2026
- Size
- 5,264 bytes
- Repository stars
- 63
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when deciding whether a research direction is still open, including a literature survey that has to end in a decision, a novelty audit, a prior art check, a scoop check against recent work, asking whether anyone has already done this, or checking that the variables an idea needs actually co-exist in one obtainable dataset. Use before an experimental plan is written, and again whenever a near-identical paper appears.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Survey and Audit Novelty Turn a direction into a decision. The survey ends with a verdict rather than a reading list, the novelty audit tries to destroy the idea rather than confirm it, and the feasibility check asks whether the data the idea needs exists in one place. Three verdicts come out and they are recorded separately, because merging them hides which one actually fired. ## Select one mode | Mode | Responsibility | Read first | |---|---|---| | `contribution-lane` | Name the lane before searching, because the lane decides what counts as a collision | `references/contribution-lanes.md` | | `joint-variable-audit` | Check that the variables the hypothesis needs co-exist in one obtainable cohort | `references/joint-variable-audit.md` | | `search-angles` | Run the survey across several independent framings and record what each returned | `references/search-angles.md` | | `kill-layer` | Adjudicate collisions and name which layer a kill lands on | `references/kill-layers.md` | Run `contribution-lane` first. A search launched without a declared lane produces "this space is taken", which is a statement about the lane, not about the space. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gxcaesar/open-research-skills/survey-and-audit-novelty@sha256:eaa92d2cfecf1dfcThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260909.71c1b78, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 9, 2026.
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Source
gxcaesar/open-research-skills · 63 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_exqicm63tbb3oqrh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gxcaesar/open-research-skills/survey-and-audit-novelty GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/eaa92d2cfecf1dfc3321318f7004181bb73b1cbb1465ad66e812eca0cee87fef
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.