idea-generation

idea-generation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from voidful/academic-skills. It costs 119 tokens per session (4,029 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for generating academic research ideas, checking them against existing literature, and narrowing them to one research proposal. It starts with many possible ideas and ends with a concise plan for one selected idea.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm thesis topics, explore new research directions, plan cross-disciplinary projects, or identify research gaps. It produces candidate ideas, a literature-checking plan, and a way to compare and select them.
Why use it?
It helps when you have a broad topic but no clear research question. Literature searching helps check whether an idea is new enough and avoids choosing a topic that has already been fully explored.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Good fit Use it to brainstorm thesis topics, explore new research directions, plan cross-disciplinary projects, or identify research gaps. It produces candidate ideas, a literature-checking plan, and a way to compare and select them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/voidful/academic-skills/idea-generation
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 voidful/academic-skills --skill idea-generation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/voidful/academic-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,029 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 $0.00119 $0.04029
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.02014
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00806
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00403

Measured 8d ago against content hash fcb9d52fc3e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-generation 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 8d 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.

idea-generation/SKILL.md · 389 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 389 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

02 — Idea Generation:學術研究構想產生

概述

本技能提供一套系統化的研究構想產生流程,幫助研究者從零開始產出具備新穎性、可行性與影響力的研究 idea。流程分為三個階段:發散文獻搜索驗證收斂,最終產出一份精煉的 1-page 研究提案。

本技能適用於:

  • 碩博士生尋找論文題目
  • 研究者開拓新研究方向
  • 跨領域合作時激盪構想
  • 研究團隊定期進行腦力激盪

三階段流程

總覽

階段一:發散          階段二:文獻搜索驗證        階段三:收斂
─────────────        ─────────────────        ──────────
產生 10-20 個         搜索相關文獻               篩選至 1 個
候選 idea            確認新穎性                 最佳 idea
                    建立文獻表

[10種發想框架]  →  [搜索策略 + 工具]  →  [評分矩陣 + 篩選標準]

階段一:發散 — 產生 10-20 個候選 Idea

目標

在不預設限制的情況下,盡可能產生大量候選構想。此階段的關鍵原則是**「量先於質」**——先求廣度,再求深度。

準備工作

  1. 界定探索範圍:確定你的研究大方向(例如:自然語言處理、電腦視覺、強化學習)
  2. 蒐集素材:回顧近期讀過的論文、參加過的演講、實驗中的觀察
  3. 設定時間限制:每個框架花 15-30 分鐘,避免過早陷入細節

10 種發想框架

以下提供十種不同角度的發想框架,建議至少使用其中 3-5 種來產生候選 idea。每種框架的詳細說明請參見 references/brainstorming-frameworks.md

框架 1:Problem-First(從問題出發)

從實際問題或痛點出發,尋找尚未被妥善解決的研究問題。

  • 觀察現有系統的瓶頸
  • 收集使用者抱怨與需求
  • 檢視 benchmark 上的失敗案例
框架 2:Solution-First(從技術出發找應用)

從一個新技術或方法出發,探索它可以應用的場景。

  • 一個新提出的演算法還能解決什麼問題?
  • 某個領域的突破能否遷移到其他領域?
框架 3:抽象階梯(Abstraction Ladder)

在不同抽象層次間移動,從具體問題上升到抽象原則,再下降到新的具體應用。

  • 向上抽象:這個問題的本質是什麼?
  • 向下具體:這個原則可以實例化為什麼?
框架 4:矛盾獵尋(Contradiction Hunting)

找出現有方法中的矛盾、假設衝突或未被質疑的預設。

  • 哪些「常識」其實缺乏證據?
  • 兩篇論文的結論是否相互矛盾?
框架 5:跨領域嫁接(Cross-Domain Transfer)

將其他領域的成功方法或概念引入自己的研究領域。

  • 生物學的機制能否啟發演算法設計?
  • 社會科學的理論能否解釋技術現象?
框架 6:What Changed(關注最近的技術變化)

關注最近的技術突破或環境變化,思考這些變化開啟了哪些新的可能性。

  • 新的硬體能力(更大的模型、更快的推理)
  • 新的資料來源(多模態資料、合成資料)
  • 新的社會需求(隱私、公平性、可解釋性)
框架 7:失敗分析(Failure Analysis)

從失敗的嘗試、被拒的論文、或表現不佳的方法中尋找機會。

  • 為什麼這個方法失敗了?能否修正?
  • 失敗的原因是否指向一個更根本的問題?
框架 8:簡單性測試(Simplicity Test)

用更簡單的方法挑戰複雜的現有方法,測試複雜性是否真的必要。

  • 簡單的 baseline 是否被公平比較過?
  • 複雜方法的哪些組件是真正必要的?
框架 9:利害關係人旋轉(Stakeholder Rotation)

從不同使用者、利害關係人的角度重新思考問題。

  • 終端使用者最在意什麼?
  • 開發者最大的痛點是什麼?
  • 決策者需要什麼資訊?
框架 10:組合/分解(Combine / Decompose)

將現有的方法或概念進行組合或拆解,產生新的研究方向。

  • 組合:A 方法 + B 方法能產生什麼效果?
  • 分解:複雜系統的哪個子模組值得獨立研究?

發散階段的輸出

Read the full file on GitHub · 389 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 8d ago First seen · 389 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A fcb9d52fc3e5

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idea-generation is a skill published in the GitHub repository voidful/academic-skills (126 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 4,029 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.

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