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scientific-brainstorming

Category: ideation-and-design · License: MIT · Version: 1.2 · Includes scripts Tags: brainstorming, research ideation, research directions, scientific method

When to use it

Facilitates evidence-aware scientific ideation with independent generation, structured discussion, explicit assumptions, transparent evaluation, adversarial review, and decision logs. Use for early-stage research brainstorming or prioritizing candidate directions; hand off empirical validation, study design, ethics or regulatory review, and clinical questions to appropriate experts or skills.

Example requests

Ask your agent in plain language, for example:
  • “Our lab needs new ideas for why our organoid batches vary so much. How should we brainstorm this without the PI steering everyone?”
  • “I have 14 candidate directions in ideas_v2.xlsx for our soil microbiome carbon-sequestration grant (due to a USDA panel in March). Four of us rated them 1-5 on feasibility and novelty and the averages are all between 3.1 and 3.6. Help me prioritize and document the decision for the PI.”
  • “We’re a small team starting a new project on microplastics and gut health and have no clear direction yet. I want to come out of a two-hour meeting with a handful of promising, defensible research angles and a record of why we chose them. How do we run that?”

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