empiricalwiki: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/ideate/SKILL.md

ideate is a skill for Claude Code from Lambenthan/empiricalwiki. It costs 28 tokens per session (5,299 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A multi-stage research-idea workflow that scans existing knowledge, generates ideas, filters them, checks their novelty, and records the results in a research wiki.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate ideas for a research direction, validate them, rank them, and create wiki pages and relationship links.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated work and keeps both selected and rejected ideas documented for later reference.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is Lambenthan/empiricalwiki's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on empiricalwiki itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything empiricalwiki configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 tools/research_wiki.py maturity wiki/ --json.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Lambenthan/empiricalwiki. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lambenthan/empiricalwiki/main/.claude/skills/ideate/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lambenthan/empiricalwiki

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,299 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 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 5.1 $0.00028 $0.05299
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.02120
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.01060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00530

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a428ef696c3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ideate 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/ideate/SKILL.md · 402 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 402 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/ideate

基于 wiki 知识库和外部搜索,通过 5 阶段管道生成高质量研究 idea。 Phase 1 扫描研究景观(wiki + WebSearch + S2),Phase 2 双模型脑暴(Claude + Review LLM 独立生成), Phase 3 初步筛选(可行性 + 快速 novelty),Phase 4 深度验证(调用 /novelty + /review), Phase 5 写入 wiki(ideas/ + graph edges),包括被淘汰的 ideas(记录原因作为 anti-repetition 记忆)。

Inputs

  • direction(可选):研究方向、关键词或具体问题描述。若不指定,则从 open_questions.md 自动选择最有价值的方向。
  • --max-ideas N(可选,默认 3):最终写入 wiki 的 idea 数量上限
  • --skip-validation:跳过 Phase 4 深度验证(快速模式,仅做 Phase 1-3 + Phase 5)
  • --auto:全自动模式,不暂停等待用户确认(用于 /research 调用)

Outputs

  • wiki/ideas/{slug}.md — 每个 idea 一个页面(status: proposed),包含 top ideas 和被淘汰的 ideas
  • wiki/graph/edges.jsonl — 新增 idea → claim/gap 的关系边
  • wiki/graph/context_brief.md — 重建后的压缩上下文
  • wiki/graph/open_questions.md — 重建后的知识缺口图
  • IDEA_REPORT(输出到终端)— 管道执行摘要、排名结果、novelty 评分

Wiki Interaction

Reads

  • wiki/graph/context_brief.md — 全局上下文
  • wiki/graph/open_questions.md — 知识缺口,驱动 idea 方向
  • wiki/ideas/*.md — 已有 ideas,特别是 status=failed 的 ideas 及 failure_reason(banlist)
  • wiki/claims/*.md — 当前 claims 状态,识别 weakly_supported 和 challenged claims
  • wiki/papers/*.md — 已有论文方法和结果
  • wiki/concepts/*.md — 技术概念,寻找跨领域组合机会
  • wiki/topics/*.md — 研究方向地图,SOTA 和 open problems
  • wiki/experiments/*.md — 已有实验结果,避免重复

Writes

  • wiki/ideas/{slug}.md — 创建新 idea 页面
  • wiki/graph/edges.jsonl — 添加 idea → claim/gap 的关系边(addresses_gap, inspired_by)
  • wiki/graph/context_brief.md — 重建
  • wiki/graph/open_questions.md — 重建
  • wiki/log.md — 追加操作日志

Graph edges created

  • addresses_gap:idea → claim/topic(idea 针对的知识缺口)
  • inspired_by:idea → paper/concept(idea 的灵感来源)

Workflow

前置:

  1. 确认工作目录为 wiki 项目根(包含 wiki/、raw/、tools/ 的目录)
  2. 检查 wiki 成熟度:
    python3 tools/research_wiki.py maturity wiki/ --json
    
    根据 maturity level 调整后续行为:
    • cold:Phase 1 外部搜索扩展(WebSearch 查询从 5 增至 8,S2/DeepXiv limit 从 20 增至 30), 跳过 wiki 内部上下文加载(为空无意义),标注 "cold-start mode: heavier external search"
    • warm:标准行为(当前默认)
    • hot:Phase 1 外部搜索缩减(WebSearch 查询从 5 降至 2,S2/DeepXiv limit 从 20 降至 10), Phase 3 gap_alignment_bonus 从 +2 提升到 +3,优先解决 wiki 中已有的 weak claims
  3. Snapshot wiki 状态(用于结束时的 Growth Report): 保存 maturity 返回的 JSON 到内存变量 maturity_before

Read the full file on GitHub · 402 lines

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. 1mo ago First seen · 402 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A a428ef696c3f

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ideate is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lambenthan/empiricalwiki (96 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 5,299 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.