idea-evaluator

idea-evaluator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from poco-ai/Agentero. It costs 123 tokens per session (3,083 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-idea review that assesses a proposed study across improvement goals, feasibility, originality, and serious weaknesses. It also considers the idea's stage and the researcher's available skills and time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate, compare, score, or refine research ideas and decide whether to proceed, revise them, or change direction.
Why use it?
It helps reveal weak assumptions, unrealistic scope, and fatal problems before months of research or writing are invested.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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/poco-ai/agentero/idea-evaluator
Any agent
npx skills add poco-ai/Agentero --skill idea-evaluator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/poco-ai/Agentero

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,083 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 5.1 $0.00123 $0.03083
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01541
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00617
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00308

Measured 6d ago against content hash 18af73157237, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-evaluator 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 6d 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.

templates/vault/.agents/skills/idea-evaluator/SKILL.md · 329 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 329 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea Evaluator

Overview

This skill evaluates a preliminary research idea from the combined perspective of a top-venue reviewer and an experienced advisor. It scores the idea against five improvement dimensions from the idea-generation guide (Higher, Faster, Stronger, Cheaper, Broader), matches the idea's lifecycle against the user's actual capability and available hours per week, probes whether the idea has paradigm-shift potential, flags fatal flaws, and returns one of three verdicts: Strong Accept, Accept with Revisions, or Reject and Pivot.

The goal is to kill weak ideas before the student invests months, and to shape promising-but-underdeveloped ideas into stronger forms before writing begins.

When to use this skill

  • The user has a draft idea and asks whether it is worth pursuing.
  • The user asks for novelty check, feasibility assessment, or scoring.
  • Before the user commits to a paper scope or starts implementation.
  • The user is comparing two or three candidate ideas and needs a structured trade-off.
  • The user suspects scope creep and wants an external check.
  • The user mentions 'evaluate this idea', 'score this idea', 'assess feasibility', or 'is this a good research direction'.

When NOT to use this skill

  • The user has already implemented the idea and is writing the paper. Use intro-drafter, tech-paper-template, or benchmark-paper-template (separate plugin) instead.
  • The user explicitly wants brainstorming of new ideas from scratch. Use plain conversation; see handbook 2.3 for a disruptive-innovation playbook.
  • The user asks for review of an existing manuscript. Use pre-submission-reviewer.
  • The user asks to evaluate a benchmark contribution specifically. Use benchmark-paper-template (separate plugin) in targeted mode.

Core procedure

Step 1: First impression and paper-type positioning

Read the user's idea description. In one paragraph, state whether the idea reads as Novel Problem, Novel Method, or New Setting. Is the story compelling in one sentence? If you cannot write that sentence, the idea itself is probably not yet clear enough for evaluation; ask the user to restate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 329 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. 6d ago First seen · 329 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 18af73157237

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idea-evaluator is a skill published in the GitHub repository poco-ai/Agentero (428 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 3,083 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.