Idea discovery

Skill dengzhe-hou/best-skills-research-writing/skills/research/idea-discovery

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Full idea discovery pipeline. Orchestrates literature survey → idea generation → novelty check → review to go from a broad research direction to validated ideas.

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Idea Discovery Pipeline

Based on: wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep Original License: MIT

Overview

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

/research-lit → /idea-creator → /novelty-check → /research-review
  (survey)      (brainstorm)    (verify novel)    (critical feedback)

Workflow

Phase 1: Literature Survey

Search arXiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar for recent papers. Build a landscape map: sub-directions, approaches, open problems. Identify structural gaps and recurring limitations.

Phase 2: Idea Generation

Brainstorm 8-12 concrete ideas. Filter by feasibility, compute cost, quick novelty search. Rank by empirical signal.

Phase 3: Deep Novelty Verification

For each top idea, run a thorough novelty check:

Multi-source literature search (arXiv, Scholar, Semantic Scholar)
Cross-verify with LLM
Check for concurrent work (last 3-6 months)
Identify closest existing work and differentiation points

Phase 4: External Critical Review

Get brutal feedback from a senior reviewer perspective:

Score the idea
Identify weaknesses
Suggest minimum viable improvements
Provide concrete feedback on experimental design

Key Rules

Don't skip phases. Each phase filters and validates — skipping leads to wasted effort later.
Kill ideas early. Better to kill 10 bad ideas than to implement one and fail.
Empirical signal > theoretical appeal. An idea with a positive pilot outranks a "sounds great" idea without evidence.
Document everything. Dead ends are just as valuable as successes for future reference.

Output

# Idea Discovery Report

## Executive Summary
[2-3 sentences: best idea, key evidence, recommended next step]

## Literature Landscape
[from Phase 1]

## Ranked Ideas
[from Phase 2, updated with Phase 3-4 results]

### 🏆 Idea 1: [title] — RECOMMENDED
- Novelty: CONFIRMED
- Reviewer score: X/10
- Next step: implement full experiment

## Eliminated Ideas
[ideas killed at each phase, with reasons]