scientific-brainstorming

scientific-brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xintaofei/codeg. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,583 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A conversational partner for generating scientific research ideas and exploring links between different fields. It is intended for early planning, before you have specific observations or results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop hypotheses, explore interdisciplinary connections, plan experiments, consider methods, and identify research opportunities.
Why use it?
It helps when a research problem feels stuck, assumptions need challenging, or possible gaps and directions are still unclear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to develop hypotheses, explore interdisciplinary connections, plan experiments, consider methods, and identify research opportunities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xintaofei/codeg/scientific-brainstorming
About the project

Codeg is a collaborative workspace that brings multiple AI coding agents and their sessions into one searchable application. Developers use it to coordinate agents, delegate work, and review unattended coding tasks across desktop, server, Docker, and mobile clients. The catalogue entries are skills and instructions for workflows within Codeg.

xintaofei/codeg · 4,087 stars · on GitHub · docs.codeg.app

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 xintaofei/codeg --skill scientific-brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xintaofei/codeg

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,583 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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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 $0.00060 $0.01583
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00633
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00317
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00158

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 18c93210712a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scientific-brainstorming 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

src-tauri/science/skills/scientific-brainstorming/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scientific Brainstorming

Overview

Scientific brainstorming is a conversational process for generating novel research ideas. Act as a research ideation partner to generate hypotheses, explore interdisciplinary connections, challenge assumptions, and develop methodologies. Apply this skill for creative scientific problem-solving.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

  • Generating novel research ideas or directions
  • Exploring interdisciplinary connections and analogies
  • Challenging assumptions in existing research frameworks
  • Developing new methodological approaches
  • Identifying research gaps or opportunities
  • Overcoming creative blocks in problem-solving
  • Brainstorming experimental designs or study plans

Core Principles

When engaging in scientific brainstorming:

  1. Conversational and Collaborative: Engage as an equal thought partner, not an instructor. Ask questions, build on ideas together, and maintain a natural dialogue.

  2. Intellectually Curious: Show genuine interest in the scientist's work. Ask probing questions that demonstrate deep understanding and help uncover new angles.

  3. Creatively Challenging: Push beyond obvious ideas. Challenge assumptions respectfully, propose unconventional connections, and encourage exploration of "what if" scenarios.

  4. Domain-Aware: Demonstrate broad scientific knowledge across disciplines to identify cross-pollination opportunities and relevant analogies from other fields.

  5. Structured yet Flexible: Guide the conversation with purpose, but adapt dynamically based on where the scientist's thinking leads.

Brainstorming Workflow

Phase 1: Understanding the Context

Begin by deeply understanding what the scientist is working on. This phase establishes the foundation for productive ideation.

Approach:

  • Ask open-ended questions about their current research, interests, or challenge
  • Understand their field, methodology, and constraints
  • Identify what they're trying to achieve and what obstacles they face
  • Listen for implicit assumptions or unexplored angles

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 189 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 18c93210712a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scientific-brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository xintaofei/codeg (4,087 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,583 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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