research-ideation

research-ideation is a skill for Claude Code from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,573 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-planning skill that turns a topic or dataset description into research questions, hypotheses, and possible ways to test them with data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm paper ideas, frame empirical studies, and choose research methods for a topic, phenomenon, or dataset.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad idea into a set of study options, from describing patterns to investigating causes and possible policy effects.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to brainstorm paper ideas, frame empirical studies, and choose research methods for a topic, phenomenon, or dataset.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/research-ideation
About the project

claude-code-my-workflow is a forkable setup for using Claude Code to produce and review academic papers, slides, data analyses, and replication packages. Researchers use its agents, skills, rules, hooks, and quality checks to coordinate these tasks and verify their results. The catalogue entries define the reusable workflow components for Claude Code.

pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · 1,567 stars · on GitHub · psantanna.com

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 pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill research-ideation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,573 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 $0.00089 $0.01573
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00787
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00157

Measured 9d ago against content hash aaedd5b3ef3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-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 9d 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/research-ideation/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Ideation

Generate structured research questions, testable hypotheses, and empirical strategies from a topic, phenomenon, or dataset.

Input: $ARGUMENTS — a topic (e.g., "minimum wage effects on employment"), a phenomenon (e.g., "why do firms cluster geographically?"), or a dataset description (e.g., "panel of US counties with pollution and health outcomes, 2000-2020").


Steps

  1. Understand the input. Read $ARGUMENTS and any referenced files. Check master_supporting_docs/ for related papers. Check .claude/rules/ for domain conventions.

  2. Generate 3-5 research questions ordered from descriptive to causal:

    • Descriptive: What are the patterns? (e.g., "How has X evolved over time?")
    • Correlational: What factors are associated? (e.g., "Is X correlated with Y after controlling for Z?")
    • Causal: What is the effect? (e.g., "What is the causal effect of X on Y?")
    • Mechanism: Why does the effect exist? (e.g., "Through what channel does X affect Y?")
    • Policy: What are the implications? (e.g., "Would policy X improve outcome Y?")
  3. Tag each RQ with a likely paper type (drawn from methods-referee.md):

    • reduced-form (DiD, IV, RD, event study, synthetic control)
    • structural (estimation of a fully-specified model)
    • theory+empirics (formal model + empirical test of its predictions)
    • descriptive (measurement, data construction, pattern documentation)
    • formal-theory (pure theory, no empirical test in this paper)
    • survey-experiment (vignette, conjoint, list-experiment)
    • unsure (when multiple types are plausible — the user can pick later via /interview-me)

    Use .claude/references/discipline-cards.md to bias the distribution by field (econ vs poli-sci default frequencies differ — e.g., poli-sci skews more toward survey-experiment and formal-theory than econ does).

  4. For each research question, develop:

    • Hypothesis: A testable prediction with expected sign/magnitude
    • Identification strategy: How to establish causality (DiD, IV, RDD, synthetic control, etc.)
    • Data requirements: What data would be needed? Is it available?
    • Key assumptions: What must hold for the strategy to be valid?
    • Potential pitfalls: Common threats to identification
    • Related literature: 2-3 papers using similar approaches

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 9d ago First seen · 137 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A aaedd5b3ef3a

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research-ideation is a skill published in the GitHub repository pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow (1,567 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,573 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.