idea-discovery

idea-discovery is a skill for Claude Code from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep. It costs 56 tokens per session (6,734 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A full research-idea workflow that moves from a broad topic to candidate ideas, novelty checks, critical review, refinement, and an experiment plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to survey a direction, rank ideas, test a small number of promising ideas, and produce a proposal and experiment plan.
Why use it?
It brings several research steps into one process instead of leaving the researcher to coordinate separate reviews and documents.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is - **[Output Composition Protocol](../shared-references/output-composition.md)** — ONE canonical deliverable per pipeline; fold sub-skill findings in, don't scat.

Good fit Use it to survey a direction, rank ideas, test a small number of promising ideas, and produce a proposal and experiment plan.

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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-discovery

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,734 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 13 May 2026
  • Snyk fail 13 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, 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 Rogue Agent · line 31
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 442
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 507
    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 $0.00056 $0.06734
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.03367
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.01347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00673

Measured 4d ago against content hash ac2d06bde65b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-discovery 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-discovery/SKILL.md · 528 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 528 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow 1: Idea Discovery Pipeline

Orchestrate a complete idea discovery workflow for: $ARGUMENTS

Overview

This skill chains sub-skills into a single automated pipeline:

/research-lit → /idea-creator → /novelty-check → /research-review → /research-refine-pipeline
  (survey)      (brainstorm)    (verify novel)    (critical feedback)  (refine method + plan experiments)

Each phase builds on the previous one's output. The final deliverables are a validated idea-stage/IDEA_REPORT.md with ranked ideas, plus a refined proposal (refine-logs/FINAL_PROPOSAL.md) and experiment plan (refine-logs/EXPERIMENT_PLAN.md) for the top idea.

Constants

  • PILOT_MAX_HOURS = 2 — Skip any pilot experiment estimated to take > 2 hours per GPU. Flag as "needs manual pilot" in the report.
  • PILOT_TIMEOUT_HOURS = 3 — Hard timeout: kill any running pilot that exceeds 3 hours. Collect partial results if available.
  • MAX_PILOT_IDEAS = 3 — Run pilots for at most 3 top ideas in parallel. Additional ideas are validated on paper only.
  • MAX_TOTAL_GPU_HOURS = 8 — Total GPU budget across all pilots. If exceeded, skip remaining pilots and note in report.
  • AUTO_PROCEED = true — When true, checkpoints are informational: report the selected option and continue in the same turn. Set to false to ask for explicit user confirmation and end the turn at each selection checkpoint.
  • REVIEWER_MODEL = gpt-6-astra — Model used via Codex MCP. Must be an OpenAI model (e.g., gpt-6-astra, o3, gpt-4o). Passed to sub-skills.
  • OUTPUT_DIR = idea-stage/ — All idea-stage outputs go here. Create the directory if it doesn't exist.
  • ARXIV_DOWNLOAD = false — When true, /research-lit downloads the top relevant arXiv PDFs during Phase 1. When false (default), only fetches metadata. Passed through to /research-lit.
  • COMPACT = false — When true, generate compact summary files for short-context models and session recovery. Writes idea-stage/IDEA_CANDIDATES.md (top 3-5 ideas only) at the end of this workflow. Downstream skills read this instead of the full idea-stage/IDEA_REPORT.md.
  • RENDER_HTML = true — When true (default), auto-render idea-stage/IDEA_REPORT.md to HTML at workflow end via /render-html. Uses --no-review (the source MD already went through novelty + cross-model review during Phase 3). Set false to skip, or pass — render html: false.
  • REF_PAPER = false — Reference paper to base ideas on. Accepts: local PDF path, arXiv URL, or any paper URL. When set, the paper is summarized first (idea-stage/REF_PAPER_SUMMARY.md), then idea generation uses it as context. Combine with base repo for "improve this paper with this codebase" workflows.
  • RESUMABLE = true — Record stage evidence under .aris/runs/<run_id>.json and require a deterministic evidence gate before declaring the final report complete.

Read the full file on GitHub · 528 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 ac2d06bde65b
  2. 12d ago First seen · 528 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A b5aaf4e24f19

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idea-discovery 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 56 tokens to every session and 6,734 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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