Idea Discovery Pipeline
Chains literature survey, idea generation, novelty checks and review into one research-ideas workflow
- Stars
- 18,482
- Licence
- MIT
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
This skill tells an AI agent to run a multi-step research workflow: survey recent papers on a topic, brainstorm candidate ideas, check whether each idea is novel, and get critical feedback from a reviewer model (Gemini, via an MCP bridge, in this overlay version). It is written for Codex users who want Gemini as the reviewer, and it depends on several other sub-skills being installed first. The output is a ranked report in idea-stage/IDEA_REPORT.md plus a refined proposal and experiment plan for the top idea.
Great for
- Researchers or graduate students starting from a broad topic who want a structured shortlist of testable ideas
- ML engineers who want pilot-experiment results to guide which ideas to pursue
- Teams already using the Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep skill set who want a Gemini-reviewed variant
Skip it if
- Quick one-off brainstorming: the pipeline is long, chains many sub-skills and can run pilot experiments, so it is heavy for simple questions
- Anyone expecting verified novelty: the novelty check relies on literature search results and can miss prior work
- Unattended runs on shared GPU or cloud budgets without setting limits: pilot experiments can consume compute time
Try asking
- “Use idea-discovery on 'efficient fine-tuning for small language models' and give me a ranked idea report”
- “Run the idea discovery pipeline on my topic with arxiv download: true”
- “Start from zero on 'graph neural networks for materials' and validate the top ideas with pilots”
- “Run idea discovery with pilot budget: 4h per idea, 20h total”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.
idea-discovery.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip idea-discovery.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip idea-discovery.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 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
- Set AUTO_PROCEED=false if you want to approve each stage, since the default true runs all phases without pausing
- Review the pilot budget constants (PILOT_MAX_HOURS, MAX_TOTAL_GPU_HOURS) before starting on paid GPU resources
- Keep ARXIV_DOWNLOAD false unless you need PDFs, to reduce bandwidth and storage
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.