Research Idea Convergence

Research Idea Convergence is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,998 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive workflow for choosing a research direction from survey or literature results. It creates two to four possible directions, compares their advantages and drawbacks, and narrows the choice to a publishable angle.

In plain words
What is it for?
Moving from a completed literature survey to a selected research question, paper angle, or publishable project direction.
Why use it?
It turns a broad set of research findings into a focused idea while keeping the researcher involved in the decision.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Moving from a completed literature survey to a selected research question, paper angle, or publishable project direction.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ligphidonk/oh-my--paper/research-idea-convergence
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 LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper --skill research-idea-convergence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,998 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00037 $0.01998
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00999
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00200

Measured 11d ago against content hash f55280d111e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Research Idea Convergence 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 11d 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/research-idea-convergence/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Idea Convergence

Canonical Summary

Interactive research direction selection for academic projects. Generates multiple candidate research directions from survey/literature results, presents them with structured comparison for user selection, then converges to a final publishable angle.

Trigger Rules

Use this skill when:

  • The project enters the ideation stage after completing the survey stage
  • The user asks about research direction, publishable angle, or idea selection
  • The current task involves generating or selecting a research direction

Do NOT use this skill when:

  • The user has already decided on a specific research direction and just wants to refine it
  • The project is still in the survey stage (use survey skills instead)

Execution Contract

  • Resolve every relative path from this skill directory first.
  • Do not write generated artifacts back into the skill directory; save them inside the active project workspace.
  • Never skip the user selection checkpoint — this is the core purpose of this skill.

Working Rules

  1. Read existing survey outputs before generating candidates.
  2. Generate 2-4 candidate directions, no more, no fewer.
  3. Each candidate must be concrete enough to evaluate (not vague platitudes).
  4. [USER_CHECKPOINT] — Always stop and wait for user selection. Never auto-select.
  5. Only after user confirmation, write the final direction to output files.

Step-by-step Instructions

Step 1 — Read Survey Context

Read all available survey outputs to understand the research landscape:

File Purpose
.pipeline/docs/research_brief.json Research topic, goal, target venue
.viewerleaf/research/Survey/reports/*.md Literature screening, gap summary
.pipeline/tasks/tasks.json Current task states and progress

Extract:

  • Research domain and specific problem area
  • Key gaps identified in the literature
  • Strong baselines that exist (traditional and learning-based)
  • Available datasets / experimental platforms
  • Target venue constraints (if specified)

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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. 11d ago First seen · 238 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A f55280d111e8

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Research Idea Convergence is a skill published in the GitHub repository LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper (722 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,998 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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