idea-discovery

Workflow 1: Idea Discovery Pipeline

Orchestrate a complete idea discovery workflow for: $ARGUMENTS

Overview

This skill chains sub-skills into a single automated pipeline:

/research-lit → /idea-creator → /novelty-check → /research-review → /research-refine-pipeline
  (survey)      (brainstorm)    (verify novel)    (critical feedback)  (refine method + plan experiments)

Each phase builds on the previous one's output. The final deliverables are a validated idea-stage/IDEA_REPORT.md with ranked ideas, plus a refined proposal (refine-logs/FINAL_PROPOSAL.md) and experiment plan (refine-logs/EXPERIMENT_PLAN.md) for the top idea.

Constants

• PILOT_MAX_HOURS = 2 — Skip any pilot experiment estimated to take > 2 hours per GPU. Flag as "needs manual pilot" in the report.
• PILOT_TIMEOUT_HOURS = 3 — Hard timeout: kill any running pilot that exceeds 3 hours. Collect partial results if available.
• MAX_PILOT_IDEAS = 3 — Run pilots for at most 3 top ideas in parallel. Additional ideas are validated on paper only.
• MAX_TOTAL_GPU_HOURS = 8 — Total GPU budget across all pilots. If exceeded, skip remaining pilots and note in report.
• AUTO_PROCEED = true — When true, checkpoints are informational: report the selected option and continue in the same turn. Set to false to ask for explicit user confirmation and end the turn at each selection checkpoint.
• REVIEWER_MODEL = gpt-5.6-sol — Model used via Codex MCP. Must be an OpenAI model (e.g., gpt-5.6-sol, o3, gpt-4o). Passed to sub-skills.
• OUTPUT_DIR = idea-stage/ — All idea-stage outputs go here. Create the directory if it doesn't exist.
• ARXIV_DOWNLOAD = false — When true, /research-lit downloads the top relevant arXiv PDFs during Phase 1. When false (default), only fetches metadata. Passed through to /research-lit.
• COMPACT = false — When true, generate compact summary files for short-context models and session recovery. Writes idea-stage/IDEA_CANDIDATES.md (top 3-5 ideas only) at the end of this workflow. Downstream skills read this instead of the full idea-stage/IDEA_REPORT.md.
• RENDER_HTML = true — When true (default), auto-render idea-stage/IDEA_REPORT.md to HTML at workflow end via /render-html. Uses --no-review (the source MD already went through novelty + cross-model review during Phase 3). Set false to skip, or pass — render html: false.
• REF_PAPER = false — Reference paper to base ideas on. Accepts: local PDF path, arXiv URL, or any paper URL. When set, the paper is summarized first (idea-stage/REF_PAPER_SUMMARY.md), then idea generation uses it as context. Combine with base repo for "improve this paper with this codebase" workflows.
• RESUMABLE = true — Record stage evidence under .aris/runs/<run_id>.json and require a deterministic evidence gate before declaring the final report complete.