sciatlas-idea-generate

sciatlas-idea-generate is a skill for Codex from zjunlp/SciAtlas. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,601 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for generating research ideas from SciAtlas, a research tool that links academic papers and their relationships. It takes a topic through paper retrieval, idea generation, novelty checking, and synthesis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve related papers, explore connections within and across fields, check whether ideas appear novel, and save the resulting research seeds.
Why use it?
It helps newcomers find relevant literature and develop ideas without having to design the research workflow themselves.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to retrieve related papers, explore connections within and across fields, check whether ideas appear novel, and save the resulting research seeds.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zjunlp/sciatlas/sciatlas-idea-generate
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zjunlp/SciAtlas --skill sciatlas-idea-generate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zjunlp/SciAtlas

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,601 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 medium

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  • medium Excessive Agency · line 14
    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 $0.00092 $0.01601
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00800
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00160

Measured 9d ago against content hash b7cfc618fd96, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sciatlas-idea-generate 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 9d 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.

agent-skill/sciatlas-idea-generate/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SciAtlas Idea Generate

Use this skill to generate research ideas from SciAtlas KG evidence. Run only the repository workflow python -m sciatlas_idea_gen.main, which retrieves anchor papers, builds a research graph, searches same-field and cross-domain inspirations, generates ideas, and runs novelty checks.

Operating Contract

  • Own the end-to-end novice flow: install or locate the workflow, guide registration, configure .env or shell variables, run retrieval/generation, inspect artifacts, and synthesize final idea seeds.
  • Ask the user only for human-only values: missing topic/domain, email, verification code, SciAtlas token, LLM key/base/model, S2 key, local KG credentials when explicitly using local KG, or one necessary scope clarification.
  • Do not ask the user to run shell commands when tool access is available.
  • Never disclose the full API token.
  • Use sciatlas_idea_gen as the only idea-generation workflow.
  • If sciatlas_idea_gen is unavailable or required LLM/KG setup is missing, report the blocker and fix setup if possible; do not substitute another route.
  • Save and inspect artifacts before writing the final answer.

KG Linkage

The workflow reaches the KG through sciatlas_idea_gen.clients.SciAtlasClient:

  • Hosted mode: SCIATLAS_USE_LOCAL_KG=0; the adapter shells into this repository's run_sciatlas.py for KG-backed paper retrieval, then normalizes data.result.ranking.papers or data.result.sources.kg.papers to papers.
  • Local KG mode: SCIATLAS_USE_LOCAL_KG=1; the adapter runs references/search/run_search.py with --disable-s2, --disable-llm-ranking, --kg-top-k, and --final-top-k, then normalizes the local KG response to papers.
  • Keep hosted mode as the default unless the user says they have Neo4j and local KG models configured.

Zero-Start Bootstrap

  1. Check for the repository workflow:
python -m sciatlas_idea_gen.main -h
  1. If missing, clone the full SciAtlas repository, change into it, then run python -m pip install -e ./sciatlas and python -m pip install -r requirements-workflows.txt. Do not use the GitHub #subdirectory=sciatlas package-only installation: it does not include sciatlas_idea_gen.
  2. Check current environment and .env for hosted KG and LLM settings before asking the user.
  3. If SCIATLAS_API_KEY is missing for hosted mode, guide the user to http://sciatlas.openkg.cn/register; ask for email, verification code, and returned sciatlas_xxx token only when needed.
  4. Configure hosted KG yourself:

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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. 9d ago First seen · 132 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A b7cfc618fd96

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sciatlas-idea-generate is a skill published in the GitHub repository zjunlp/SciAtlas (146 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,601 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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