idea-creator

idea-creator is a skill for Claude Code from AI4Scientist/nano-scientist. It costs 51 tokens per session (3,963 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research brainstorming workflow that generates and ranks ideas from a broad research direction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm possible projects, explore what to work on, or look for research ideas with publication potential.
Why use it?
It turns an open-ended topic into a shorter set of research directions that can be compared.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to brainstorm possible projects, explore what to work on, or look for research ideas with publication potential.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai4scientist/nano-scientist/idea-creator
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add AI4Scientist/nano-scientist --skill idea-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AI4Scientist/nano-scientist

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,963 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00051 $0.03963
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01982
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00793
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00396

Measured 10d ago against content hash e26a66bf9d9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-creator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/idea-creator/SKILL.md · 322 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 322 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A e26a66bf9d9d

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idea-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository AI4Scientist/nano-scientist (127 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 3,963 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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