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Structured ideation frameworks for generating research ideas, finding novel angles, and tracking hypotheses over time. Use when the user wants new ideas, says 'I'm stuck', 'what could I try', 'find me an angle on X', 'brainstorm', 'what's novel here', or when gap analysis reveals unexplored territory. Also use to manage the ideas/ tracker.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/research:research-ideationThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Ten frameworks for moving from "vague curiosity" to "testable hypothesis." Each targets a different cognitive mode — use the routing table to pick the right one, or browse several when exploring broadly.
Ten frameworks for moving from "vague curiosity" to "testable hypothesis." Each targets a different cognitive mode — use the routing table to pick the right one, or browse several when exploring broadly.
| Situation | Read |
|---|---|
| Need an idea, any idea | frameworks.md — browse multiple |
| Stuck on current direction | frameworks.md → Tension Hunting or Reformulation |
| Want cross-domain insight | frameworks.md → Bisociation or Cross-Pollination |
| Have ideas, need to filter | idea-evaluation.md |
| Updating ideas with new evidence | idea-evaluation.md → Status tracking section |
| Your state | Best framework |
|---|---|
| "I have no idea what to work on" | Abstraction Ladder + Gap Mining |
| "I know the field but need a fresh angle" | Bisociation + Reformulation |
| "Two things seem contradictory" | Tension Hunting |
| "I saw something interesting in another field" | Cross-Pollination + Analogy Transfer |
| "I have too many ideas, can't choose" | → use idea-evaluation.md |
| "My current approach isn't working" | Inversion + Constraint Manipulation |
| "I want to push the boundaries of X" | Boundary Exploration + Scaling |
| "I need to combine existing methods" | Combinatorial Creativity |
This skill owns the ideas/ folder. Each idea is one markdown file with YAML frontmatter.
---
id: idea-slug
status: exploring | testing | parked | abandoned | published
origin: paper:author2024 | experiment:run-014 | brainstorm:2026-04-20
created: 2026-04-20
updated: 2026-04-20
tags: [topic1, topic2]
---
## [Idea title]
**Hypothesis**: [one testable sentence]
**For**:
- [evidence supporting this idea]
**Against**:
- [evidence against]
**Next step**: [concrete action]
exploring → testing (when you start running experiments)
exploring → parked (interesting but not now)
exploring → abandoned (evidence against, or better idea found)
testing → published (wrote it up: blog, paper, or internal doc)
testing → abandoned (experiments disprove it)
parked → exploring (revisiting with new context)
ideas/ for exploring/parked ideas, then frameworks if none fitCreates, edits, and optimizes skills for Claude Code, including drafting, evaluating with test prompts, iterating on performance, and improving skill descriptions for better triggering accuracy.
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