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brainstorming-research-ideas

Category: ideation-and-design · License: MIT · Version: 1.0.0 Tags: Research Ideation, Brainstorming, Problem Discovery, Creative Thinking, Research Strategy

When to use it

Guides researchers through structured ideation frameworks to discover high-impact research directions. Use when exploring new problem spaces, pivoting between projects, or seeking novel angles on existing work.

Example requests

Ask your agent in plain language, for example:
  • “I’m a second-year PhD student and I have no idea what to work on next. Help me find a good research direction?”
  • “My group has spent a year on sparse-autoencoder feature steering for Llama-3 8B and our last three experiments on the steering-eval repo all gave marginal gains. I’m thinking of pivoting, but I’m not sure whether to go more general, narrower, or move to another field entirely. Can you help me work out where to take this?”
  • “Everyone in my subfield says you must pick between model accuracy and privacy when training on hospital records. I want to figure out whether that trade-off is real and whether there’s a paper in it. How should I think about it?”

Install

In Claude Code you can also add the marketplace with /plugin marketplace add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills and install the whole ideation-and-design category with /plugin install ideation-and-design@research-agent-skills.

Full playbook

Read SKILL.md for the complete workflow, references and any scripts. The agent installer copies the full skill folder.
Last modified on October 19, 2026