Agent skill

Research Ideation Screening

by BingHanOfUESTC in BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team

A skill your agent uses when generating, screening, ranking, or selecting research ideas from literature gaps and experimental constraints.

MITAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Research Ideation Screening

skills CLI
$ npx skills add BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill research-ideation-screening -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team research-ideation-screening --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/teams/auto_research_team/skills/research-ideation-screening .claude/skills/research-ideation-screening && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
research-ideation-screening
GitHub stars
106
Token cost
~492 tokens
SKILL.md length
98 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
30
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when generating, screening, ranking, or selecting research ideas from literature gaps and experimental constraints.

  • Works in 4 steps: Idea Generation Lenses → Idea Card → Screening Matrix → …
  • Selecting research ideas from literature gaps and experimental constraints
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Brainstorming

What it does

Research Ideation Screening is an agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team. Use this skill when generating, screening, ranking, or selecting research ideas from literature gaps and experimental constraints.

Its SKILL.md is about 490 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Brainstorming and Hypothesis generation. The repository describes itself as: Build persistent multi-agent teams that collaborate like real organizations to deliver complex tasks. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Selecting research ideas from literature gaps and experimental constraints
  • Tasks that involve Brainstorming
  • Tasks that involve Hypothesis generation

Example prompts

  • “/research-ideation-screening”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Idea Generation Lenses
  2. Idea Card
  3. Screening Matrix
  4. Red-Team Questions

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7e28736. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Research Ideation Screening loads about 492 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 40 tokens; SKILL.md has 98 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~40
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~492

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team at commit 7e28736, republished under its MIT licence (© BingHanOfUESTC). 98 words, ~492 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/research-ideation-screening/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
research-ideation-screening
description
Use this skill when generating, screening, ranking, or selecting research ideas from literature gaps and experimental constraints.

Research Ideation Screening

This skill prevents vague novelty claims. An idea is only useful if it is tied to evidence, implementable under constraints, and falsifiable by an experiment.


1. Idea Generation Lenses

Generate candidates using at least five lenses:

text
failure case repair
metric-target mismatch
data efficiency
compute efficiency
robustness and distribution shift
architecture simplification
training objective change
evaluation protocol improvement
tooling or reproducibility gap
negative result worth documenting

Avoid ideas that only rename existing methods.


2. Idea Card

Write each candidate in:

text
research_workspace/ideas/idea_<N>.md

Template:

markdown
# Idea <N>: <title>

- Gap:
- Evidence:
- Hypothesis:
- Method sketch:
- Minimal implementation:
- Baseline:
- Dataset/benchmark:
- Primary metric:
- Ablation:
- Expected failure mode:
- Resource estimate:
- Novelty risk:
- License/data risk:
- Stop condition:

3. Screening Matrix

Maintain:

text
research_workspace/ideas/screening_matrix.md

Score 1-5:

text
evidence strength
novelty
implementation simplicity
evaluation clarity
resource fit
expected impact
risk containment
paper-worthiness

Select the idea with the best combination of evidence, feasibility, and falsifiability, not the most impressive wording.


4. Red-Team Questions

Before committing to an idea, answer:

text
Has this already been done?
Can a small experiment disprove it?
Is the baseline fair?
Would a null result still teach something?
Can the implementation be isolated?
Can results be plotted in one clear table or figure?
What would make us abandon the idea?

If these cannot be answered, return to literature mapping or scope refinement.

© BingHanOfUESTC, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in teams/auto_research_team/skills/research-ideation-screening of BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7e28736

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Research Junshijunshi-research/research-junshi126—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Idea Generationvoidful/academic-skills135—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Research Ideationmaxwell2732/paper-replicate-agent-demo1371 repos~914Automated safety check: PassNone

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Questions about Research Ideation Screening

What does Research Ideation Screening do?

A skill your agent uses when generating, screening, ranking, or selecting research ideas from literature gaps and experimental constraints. Research Ideation Screening is an agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team. Use this skill when generating, screening, ranking, or selecting research ideas from literature gaps and experimental constraints.

When should I use Research Ideation Screening?

Research Ideation Screening fits situations like: selecting research ideas from literature gaps and experimental constraints; tasks that involve Brainstorming; tasks that involve Hypothesis generation.

How do I install Research Ideation Screening in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill research-ideation-screening -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (teams/auto_research_team/skills/research-ideation-screening in BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team) into .claude/skills/research-ideation-screening in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Research Ideation Screening in Codex?

Run `npx skills add BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill research-ideation-screening -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (teams/auto_research_team/skills/research-ideation-screening in BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team) into .agents/skills/research-ideation-screening in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Research Ideation Screening in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill research-ideation-screening -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/research-ideation-screening, .gemini/skills/research-ideation-screening, .github/skills/research-ideation-screening and .opencode/skills/research-ideation-screening in your project.

What does Research Ideation Screening need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Research Ideation Screening is instructions for the agent only.

Does Research Ideation Screening access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Research Ideation Screening safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Research Ideation Screening use?

Research Ideation Screening is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Research Ideation Screening use?

About 492 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Research Ideation Screening?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Research Ideation Screening: Sciatlas Idea Generate (zjunlp/SciAtlas, 160 stars), Generate Idea (GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent, 106 stars), Research Junshi (junshi-research/research-junshi, 126 stars) and Idea Generation (voidful/academic-skills, 135 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Research Ideation Screening?

BingHanOfUESTC (a GitHub user) maintains it in BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team, which has 106 GitHub stars. The repository holds 30 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 23, 2026.

Source: BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.