{
  "handle": "Novelty",
  "mechanism": "A {{judge}} of structural distinctness: does this artifact introduce a genuinely new mechanism relative to a reference knowledge base, or is it a rename or incremental variation of something already there? Applies wherever originality needs to be separated from surface variety — scientific contribution, design proposals, creative work, trademark/patent review, pattern minting. The essential move is a structural comparison against the incumbent set rather than a similarity score on surface tokens. Specific rating semantics (binary, traffic-light, continuous distance) belong on descendants or on the composing protocol. The signature Judge({{value}}) places the result on a {{value}}-scale (how novel is this, on a measurable axis) rather than returning a binary yes/no.",
  "invariants": [
    "Compares structure against the incumbent set, not surface tokens.",
    "Names the reference knowledge base it judged against.",
    "Distinguishes a new mechanism from a rename or an incremental variation.",
    "Yields a {{value}}-graded distinctness score, not a binary verdict."
  ],
  "signature": [
    "Judge(Value)"
  ],
  "gloss": "Evaluates structural distinctness",
  "_meta": {
    "ring": 2,
    "tier": 1,
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      "sema:Novelty#mh:SHA-256:262f2a36b4fb3ef6b2589307d7eb751cfec6e32548a444535c6e5db2d5c6c1a0",
      "sema:Novelty#mh:SHA-256:cdbde463b0044cb2937386c83a10e9c87630c9dbb3e8bfd29af41030de5ca36f"
    ],
    "path": [
      "Mind",
      "Strategy"
    ]
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Novelty#mh:SHA-256:954f66918110b3dbbfadd1f47dd27ae095a8727113dce1c45d34931cf517d94a",
  "sema_ref": "Novelty#954f",
  "sema_stub": "954f",
  "failure_modes": [
    "Surface novelty: renamed components read as new because their tokens differ.",
    "Coverage gap: the reference base omits the prior art, so a known mechanism scores as novel.",
    "Structural blindness: a genuinely new mechanism built from familiar parts scores as derivative."
  ],
  "dependencies": {
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      "value": "sema:Value#mh:SHA-256:37fd75758d04cdd7f57a636ccb5394d463713d60c33b694e37ab71f4a5a896f8"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Mind",
  "sema_category": "Strategy",
  "used_by": {
    "references": {
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      "PUREOptimization": "sema:PUREOptimization#mh:SHA-256:205b2c752f68fe87dde75b65cb848bdad8527dc5713180460e6441eac3b86be6"
    },
    "composes_with": {
      "DiscoveryProtocol": "sema:DiscoveryProtocol#mh:SHA-256:5c8e74ee9833090e8bc5e91f373e165f885cd7b23f79bb55c6127d783ba9d96b",
      "PatternDiscovery": "sema:PatternDiscovery#mh:SHA-256:742a4d59a47458bf5ba632097b9cc410228dbedc941a561e7cfa70f2c63cd602",
      "PURE": "sema:PURE#mh:SHA-256:b65a673f236a094421e8ae7278ca0cc24a1de7b998caf26aef1e2022be1d0efd",
      "PURECheck": "sema:PURECheck#mh:SHA-256:574bfe492b148844233507d79302ba73135ad366d24b4b34f3de476ed903094e"
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}