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Research Idea Creator

Generates and ranks publishable research ideas for a broad research direction.

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Repository
wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
Stars
18,482
Licence
MIT
Files
1 file

What it does

Once installed, when you give the agent a broad research topic, it brainstorms possible research ideas, checks them against the literature found through web search, and ranks them by how publishable they look. The skill describes a multi-phase workflow that can also call other helper skills for novelty checks, small pilot experiments, and reviews by a second AI model. The visible SKILL.md is mostly a workflow and configuration description; the full behaviour depends on those referenced helper skills and tools.

Great for

  • Researchers or PhD students looking for directions in an unfamiliar area
  • Teams that want a structured list of candidate projects with rough feasibility notes
  • Users already running the wider ARIS research pipeline

Skip it if

  • People who need a finished, verified research contribution: generated ideas still need expert judgement and a real novelty check, since the agent can produce plausible but already-published work.
  • Users who do not want experiments run automatically: the workflow can launch GPU pilot runs and may spend budget (its configuration sets an 8 GPU-hour total cap) if the required helper tools are present.

Try asking

  • “Brainstorm publishable research ideas for federated learning on edge devices”
  • “Find what we can work on in retrieval-augmented generation for medical QA”
  • “Generate and rank research ideas for efficient long-context transformers”
  • “找idea for graph neural networks in drug discovery”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Research Idea CreatorInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    idea-creator.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip idea-creator.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip idea-creator.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Give a specific, narrow research direction rather than a whole field, so the generated ideas are more concrete.
  • Check every idea with a literature search yourself before investing time, because novelty claims are generated by the agent.
  • Leave pilot budgets low at first and review the reviewer and GPU settings before running the full workflow.

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.