idea-creator

idea-creator is a skill for Claude Code from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep. It costs 51 tokens per session (8,221 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning a broad research direction into specific ideas that could be tested and published. It includes checking whether ideas appear genuinely new and planning small pilot experiments.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps generate, rank, check, and pilot research ideas, including deciding which ideas are feasible within available time and computing resources.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of moving from vague brainstorming to ideas with a research gap, validation plan, and practical constraints. It also helps filter ideas before spending substantial computing time.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument; mentions Codex.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is [`shared-references/acceptance-gate.md`](../shared-references/acceptance-gate.md))..

Good fit It helps generate, rank, check, and pilot research ideas, including deciding which ideas are feasible within available time and computing resources.

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About the project

ARIS is a collection of Markdown-based skills that define a workflow for autonomous machine-learning research, including idea discovery, experiment automation, and review loops. Researchers and AI coding agents use it across tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenClaw without depending on a single framework. The catalogue entries are ARIS workflow skills and agents.

wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep · 15,970 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wanshuiyin/auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/idea-creator

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 8,221 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
  • Socket warn 17 May 2026
  • Snyk fail 17 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 558
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00051 $0.08221
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.04110
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01644
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00822

Measured 4d ago against content hash e78e20b2eff6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 4d 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 · 585 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 585 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. Standalone, Phase 1's landscape survey is inline (WebSearch — it does not invoke /research-lit); Phases 4-5 invoke /novelty-check, /run-experiment, and /monitor-experiment for validation and pilots. For the full sub-skill pipeline (/research-lit → idea generation → /novelty-check/research-review), run /idea-discovery (Workflow 1), which orchestrates this skill.

Constants

  • PILOT_MAX_HOURS = 2 — Skip any pilot estimated to take > 2 hours per GPU. Flag as "needs manual pilot".
  • PILOT_TIMEOUT_HOURS = 3 — Hard timeout: kill pilots exceeding 3 hours. Collect partial results if available.
  • MAX_PILOT_IDEAS = 3 — Pilot at most 3 ideas in parallel. Additional ideas are validated on paper only.
  • MAX_TOTAL_GPU_HOURS = 8 — Total GPU budget for all pilots combined.
  • REVIEWER_MODEL = gpt-6-astra — Default model for the Codex backend. Must be an OpenAI model (e.g., gpt-6-astra, o3, gpt-4o). Manual backend uses a model the user chooses, but it must be a non-Claude model ARIS can classify (OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Moonshot/Kimi, Qwen) — the executor is Claude, so pasting into any Claude product makes Claude judge Claude and voids the cross-model invariant (see shared-references/reviewer-routing.md).
  • REVIEWER_BACKEND = codex — Default: Codex MCP (xhigh). Override with — reviewer: oracle-pro for Oracle MCP, or — reviewer: manual for Manual Review MCP. If manual-review MCP is unavailable, stop and print the install command; do not fall back to Codex. See shared-references/reviewer-routing.md.
  • OUTPUT_DIR = idea-stage/ — All idea-stage outputs go here. Create the directory if it doesn't exist.

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

Reviewer Calling Convention

Read the full file on GitHub · 585 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. 4d ago Changed e78e20b2eff6
  2. 11d ago First seen · 585 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A dd0d2940e900

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idea-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep (15,970 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 8,221 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 2026-08-30.

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