idea-creator

idea-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from llv22/AutoResearchWithEyes. It costs 51 tokens per session (2,544 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-idea generator that develops and ranks possible projects from a broad research direction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Surveying papers, finding research gaps, proposing publishable directions, and prioritizing ideas for further testing.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague topic into specific ideas and checks them against existing research before investing in them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the auto-research-with-eyes plugin — 10 skills, 5 commands, 2 agents, 1 MCP server 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/llv22/autoresearchwitheyes/idea-creator
Any agent
npx skills add llv22/AutoResearchWithEyes --skill idea-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/llv22/AutoResearchWithEyes

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install auto-research-with-eyes, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 5 commands, 2 agents, 1 MCP server.

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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 2,544 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 $0.00051 $0.02544
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01272
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00509
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00254

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8a334979f802, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 5d 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 · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Idea Creator

Generate publishable research ideas for: $ARGUMENTS

Overview

Given a broad research direction from the user, systematically generate, validate, and rank concrete research ideas. This skill composes with /research-lit, /novelty-check, and /research-review to form a complete idea discovery pipeline.

Constants

All constants (PILOT_MAX_HOURS, PILOT_TIMEOUT_HOURS, MAX_PILOT_IDEAS, MAX_TOTAL_GPU_HOURS, REVIEWER_MODEL) are defined in the project's CLAUDE.md. Read them from there before proceeding.

💡 Override via argument, e.g., /idea-creator "topic" — pilot budget: 4h per idea, 20h total.

Workflow

Phase 1: Landscape Survey (5-10 min)

Map the research area to understand what exists and where the gaps are.

  1. Scan local paper library first: Check papers/ and literature/ in the project directory for existing PDFs. Read first 3 pages of relevant papers to build a baseline understanding before searching online. This avoids re-discovering what the user already knows.

  2. Search recent literature using WebSearch:

    • Top venues in the last 2 years (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, etc.)
    • Recent arXiv preprints (last 6 months)
    • Use 5+ different query formulations
    • Read abstracts and introductions of the top 10-15 papers
  3. Build a landscape map:

    • Group papers by sub-direction / approach
    • Identify what has been tried and what hasn't
    • Note recurring limitations mentioned in "Future Work" sections
    • Flag any open problems explicitly stated by multiple papers
  4. Identify structural gaps:

    • Methods that work in domain A but haven't been tried in domain B
    • Contradictory findings between papers (opportunity for resolution)
    • Assumptions that everyone makes but nobody has tested
    • Scaling regimes that haven't been explored
    • Diagnostic questions that nobody has asked

Phase 2: Idea Generation (brainstorm with external LLM)

Use the external LLM via Codex MCP for divergent thinking. Enable web search (tools.web_search) so brainstorming is grounded in current literature — this is light search-augmented reasoning, not a dedicated deep-research pass (that is gpt-pro's job). Web search is set on this initial call, so the thread inherits it for the later codex-reply critical-review step.

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 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. 5d ago First seen · 234 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 8a334979f802

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idea-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository llv22/AutoResearchWithEyes (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 2,544 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 2026-08-31.

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