Ideer Daily Paper
AI45Lab/iDeer
Daily paper/repo digest where YOU are the reader. An agent skill from AI45Lab/iDeer.
Generate research questions from existing materials — codebooks, survey questionnaires, datasets, or published papers/abstracts.
Install Scholar Brainstorm
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-brainstorm -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-brainstorm --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm .claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "scholar-brainstorm" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm into .claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-brainstorm", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-brainstormType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-brainstorm -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-brainstorm --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm .agents/skills/scholar-brainstorm && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-brainstorm" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm into .agents/skills/scholar-brainstorm/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-brainstorm", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-brainstorm -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-brainstorm --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm .cursor/skills/scholar-brainstorm && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "scholar-brainstorm" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm into .cursor/skills/scholar-brainstorm/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-brainstorm", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git --path .claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-brainstorm -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-brainstorm --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm .gemini/skills/scholar-brainstorm && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-brainstorm" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm into .gemini/skills/scholar-brainstorm/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-brainstorm", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-brainstormInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-brainstorm -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm .github/skills/scholar-brainstorm && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-brainstorm" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm into .github/skills/scholar-brainstorm/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-brainstorm", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-brainstorm -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-brainstorm --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm .opencode/skills/scholar-brainstorm && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-brainstorm" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm into .opencode/skills/scholar-brainstorm/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-brainstorm", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
scholar-brainstorm- GitHub stars
- 168
- Token cost
- ~4.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 1,613 words
- Files
- 5 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 30
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Generate research questions from existing materials — codebooks, survey questionnaires, datasets, or published papers/abstracts.
- Works in 3 steps: DATA — user provides data files (.csv,… → MATERIALS — user provides… → PAPER — user provides a published paper…
- Tasks that involve Brainstorming
- SKILL.md covers Arguments, Setup, Mode Detection and Primary Goal, plus 5 more sections
- Calls bash
What it does
Scholar Brainstorm is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Generate research questions from existing materials — codebooks, survey questionnaires, datasets, or published papers/abstracts. Three modes: DATA (data files with safety scan + empirical signal tests), MATERIALS (codebook/questionnaire only with theory-driven ranking), PAPER (published paper/abstract → follow-up research ideas via SciThinker-30B + multi-agent evaluation). Auto-detects mode from file extensions. Explores the data landscape and proposes a ranked Top 10 list of publishable research questions using…
Its SKILL.md is about 4.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `references/brainstorm-patterns.md`, `references/mode-data.md` and `references/mode-paper.md`).
It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Brainstorming, Hypothesis generation and Model hubs and datasets. It works with Hugging Face. The repository describes itself as: Open scholar skill, a claude code plugin, for academic research.
When your agent uses it
- Tasks that involve Brainstorming
- Tasks that involve Hypothesis generation
- Tasks that involve Model hubs and datasets
Example prompts
- “/scholar-brainstorm”
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- DATA — user provides data files (.csv, .dta, .rds, etc.) → safety scan + empirical signal tests
- MATERIALS — user provides codebooks/questionnaires without data → theory-driven ranking
- PAPER — user provides a published paper PDF, DOI, or pasted abstract → follow-up research ideation via SciThinker + Claude brainstorming
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6e5ac8e. 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
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
bash
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
Scholar Brainstorm loads about 4.2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~24k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 171 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,613 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,613 words (~4,202 tokens).
“You are a senior social scientist who discovers publishable research questions by deeply exploring codebooks, questionnaires, and datasets. Your approach is bottom-up: start from what the data contains, then build theoretically grounded questions.”
- name
- scholar-brainstorm
- tools
- Read, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch, Write, Agent, Glob, Grep
- argument-hint
- [path to codebook/questionnaire/data file(s)/paper PDF] [optional: field, population, target journal] — e.g., 'paper.pdf for NHB' or 'brainstorm from…
- user-invocable
- true
Files
SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in .claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm of joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.
- SKILL.md
- references/brainstorm-patterns.md
- references/mode-data.md
- references/mode-paper.md
- references/shared-evaluation.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e5ac8e
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scholar Brainstorm this skilljoshzyj/open-scholar-skill | 168 | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Ideer Daily PaperAI45Lab/iDeer | 416 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | AGPL-3.0 | |
| Idea Generationvoidful/academic-skills | 134 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Research Ideationmaxwell2732/paper-replicate-agent-demo | 137 | 1 repos | ~914 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Interview Mepedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow | 1.7k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Research Ideationpedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow | 1.7k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Scholar Brainstorm
What does Scholar Brainstorm do?
Generate research questions from existing materials — codebooks, survey questionnaires, datasets, or published papers/abstracts. Scholar Brainstorm is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Generate research questions from existing materials — codebooks, survey questionnaires, datasets, or published papers/abstracts.
When should I use Scholar Brainstorm?
Scholar Brainstorm fits situations like: tasks that involve Brainstorming; tasks that involve Hypothesis generation; tasks that involve Model hubs and datasets.
How do I install Scholar Brainstorm in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-brainstorm -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Scholar Brainstorm in Codex?
Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-brainstorm -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-brainstorm in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .agents/skills/scholar-brainstorm in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Scholar Brainstorm 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 joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-brainstorm -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/scholar-brainstorm, .gemini/skills/scholar-brainstorm, .github/skills/scholar-brainstorm and .opencode/skills/scholar-brainstorm in your project.
What does Scholar Brainstorm need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Scholar Brainstorm needs the command-line tools its instructions call (bash).
Does Scholar Brainstorm 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 Scholar Brainstorm 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 Scholar Brainstorm use?
Scholar Brainstorm has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.
How many tokens does Scholar Brainstorm use?
About 4.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 17k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 20k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Scholar Brainstorm?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Scholar Brainstorm: Ideer Daily Paper (AI45Lab/iDeer, 416 stars), Idea Generation (voidful/academic-skills, 134 stars), Research Ideation (maxwell2732/paper-replicate-agent-demo, 137 stars) and Interview Me (pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow, 1.7k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Scholar Brainstorm?
joshzyj (a GitHub user) maintains it in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill, which has 168 GitHub stars. The repository holds 30 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 18, 2026.
Source: joshzyj/open-scholar-skill on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.