cross-disciplinary-ideation

cross-disciplinary-ideation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Data-Wise/claude-plugins. It costs 16 tokens per session (4,003 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for finding useful connections between statistics and other fields such as physics, computer science, biology, and economics. It helps adapt ideas from those fields to statistical problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm research methods, find analogies in other disciplines, and explore techniques such as machine learning or physics methods for statistical applications.
Why use it?
It provides a way to look beyond familiar techniques when a statistical problem needs a new approach.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the statistical-research plugin — 10 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/data-wise/claude-plugins/cross-disciplinary-ideation
Any agent
npx skills add Data-Wise/claude-plugins --skill cross-disciplinary-ideation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Data-Wise/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install statistical-research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for cross-disciplinary-ideation

README.md
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,003 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original 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 $0.00016 $0.04003
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.02001
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00801
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00400

Measured 4d ago against content hash 510b431731e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cross-disciplinary-ideation 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 4d 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.

statistical-research/skills/research/cross-disciplinary-ideation/SKILL.md · 567 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 567 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cross-Disciplinary Ideation

Systematic framework for discovering statistical innovations through cross-field connections

Use this skill when: brainstorming new methods, seeking novel approaches to statistical problems, looking for inspiration from other fields (physics, CS, biology, economics), or wanting to apply techniques from one domain to another.


The Cross-Disciplinary Innovation Framework

Why Cross-Disciplinary?

Many statistical breakthroughs originated elsewhere:

Statistical Method Origin Field Transfer
MCMC Physics (Metropolis) Statistical computation
Boosting Machine learning Ensemble methods
Lasso Signal processing Sparse regression
Optimal transport Mathematics Distribution comparison
Neural networks Neuroscience/CS Flexible function estimation
Causal graphs Philosophy/AI Causal inference

The Innovation Cycle

Problem in Statistics → Abstract Structure → Search Other Fields
         ↑                                           ↓
    Validate/Adapt ←── Identify Analogues ←── Find Connections

Machine Learning Connections

Deep Learning for Causal Mediation

ML Method Statistical Application Transfer Opportunity
Double ML Debiased mediation effects Nuisance parameter estimation
Causal Forests Heterogeneous mediation Effect modification detection
Neural Networks Flexible g-computation Nonparametric mediation
VAEs Latent mediator modeling Measurement error correction
Transformers Sequential mediation Temporal pattern learning
GNNs Network mediation Spillover effect estimation
# Double ML for mediation effect estimation
library(DoubleML)

# Estimate nuisance parameters with ML
estimate_dml_mediation <- function(Y, A, M, X) {
  # First stage: E[M|A,X]
  mediator_model <- cv.glmnet(cbind(A, X), M)
  M_hat <- predict(mediator_model, cbind(A, X))

  # Second stage: E[Y|A,M,X]
  outcome_model <- cv.glmnet(cbind(A, M, X), Y)

  # Debiased estimation
  residuals_M <- M - M_hat

  list(
    direct = coef(outcome_model)["A"],
    indirect_component = residuals_M
  )
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 567 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 567 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 510b431731e1

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cross-disciplinary-ideation is a skill published in the GitHub repository Data-Wise/claude-plugins (7 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 4,003 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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