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Best hypothesis generation skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Hypothesis generation skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. An agent skill from spacering-net/codeg. | spacering-net/ | 3.8k | 15 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 2 | Builds a structured deep-reading card for one scientific paper, covering methods, how experiments support claims, limitations and research ideas, with a script to prepare the source. | Yuan1z0825/ | 46k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 3 | This skill enriches vague prompts with targeted research and clarification before execution. | severity1/ | 1.9k | 2 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 4 | Formulate evidence-bounded scientific questions, candidate hypotheses, rival explanations, causal or associational claims, discriminating predictions, measurements, and preregistration-ready… | K-Dense-AI/ | 2.4k | 2 repos | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 5 | A skill your agent uses when a researcher is choosing, framing, refining, or stress-testing a research question, hypothesis, thesis topic, project idea, grant direction, paper angle, or stalled… | Rimagination/ | 305 | 1 repo | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
| 6 | Turns a refined research proposal into a claim-to-evidence-to-run-order roadmap instead of a sprawling benchmark wishlist. | zjYao36/ | 128 | 7 repos | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 6 mo ago |
| 7 | Build or review source-backed descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analysis for consequential decisions. | limingrui679-design/ | 989 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 8 | Creative research ideation and exploration. An agent skill from spacering-net/codeg. | spacering-net/ | 3.8k | 14 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 9 | Turns a broad metabolic modelling topic into a concrete, paper-shaped plan with organism, model, perturbations, metrics and figures before any FBA code is written. | aiming-lab/ | 15k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 10 | A skill your agent uses when the user has a research question and needs a complete experiment package — design document, runnable code, results (measured or simulated with honest provenance)… | ai4s-research/ | 237 | 2 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 11 | Get a deep critical review of research idea from GPT via Codex MCP. | GRIND-Lab-Core/ | 106 | 6 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 5 mo ago |
| 12 | Turns a vague research direction into a focused, problem-anchored method plan through up to five review rounds with a second model. | zjYao36/ | 128 | 7 repos | ~6.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 6 mo ago |
| 13 | Help with humanities scholarly writing: sharpen research questions, map supplied readings, plan and draft arguments, review chapters, preserve authorial voice, and respond to reviewers. | tizzy916/ | 432 | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-NC-4.0 | 15 days ago |
| 14 | Turns completed system-internals and adversary-tradecraft research into one focused, testable threat hunt hypothesis about a single attack pattern. | OTRF/ | 4.7k | — | ~600 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 8 mo ago |
| 15 | A skill your agent uses when the user asks to write or draft a PhD / doctoral research proposal, research plan, 研究计划书, or 开题报告 — a forward-looking plan of background, gap, research questions… | luwill/ | 857 | — | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 7 days ago |
| 16 | Facilitates evidence-aware scientific ideation with independent generation, structured discussion, explicit assumptions, transparent evaluation, adversarial review, and decision logs. | Oleafly/ | 205 | 2 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 17 | Plans and audits runs of the HypoGeniC and HypoRefine packages, which propose hypotheses from labeled text datasets, with local checks before any model call. | K-Dense-AI/ | 48k | 1 repo | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 18 | Generates structured literature survey reports from collected papers using a multi-stage pipeline: outline generation (query-type adaptive) → draft survey → section-by-section expansion → summary… | EvoScientist/ | 474 | 3 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 7 days ago |
| 19 | Personalized academic literature digests and ranked research ideas grounded in the researcher's papers and persistent memory. | junshi-research/ | 126 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 21 days ago |
| 20 | A skill your agent uses when a contributor wants to create, repair, or complete an OpenRSI-Index AutoResearch task proposal grounded in a remote model-development repository, including… | OpenRSI-Foundation/ | 190 | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 21 | Turn vague or partially formed AI, computer-science, data-driven, and engineering-method research directions into evidence-grounded, falsifiable, paper-ready Research Idea Briefs through heuristic… | cpt13-g/ | 236 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 22 | This skill should be used when scientists need help with research problem selection, project ideation, troubleshooting stuck projects, or strategic scientific decisions. | aws-samples/ | 274 | 4 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| 23 | 23.Deltasci Two-perspective co-reasoning for AI4Science hypothesis generation. | boheling/ | 144 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 24 | This skill should be used when the user asks to "brainstorm research ideas", "use 5W1H framework", "identify research gaps", "conduct gap analysis", "start research project", "conduct literature… | Galaxy-Dawn/ | 5.7k | 3 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
| 25 | A skill your agent uses when the user wants cross-disciplinary research ideas generated as concise research cards with Title, Abstract, Design, Distinctiveness, and Significance rather than one-shot… | jameslemon2002/ | 136 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 26 | Find and read academic papers (S2 + arXiv). An agent skill from EvoScientist/EvoSkills. | EvoScientist/ | 474 | — | ~6.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 7 days ago |
| 27 | 全自动科研平台:从论文检索、知识图谱构建、研究缺口分析、假设生成,到实验执行、论文写作、自审修正的完整科研流水线。Agent 按此 Skill 的指令自主推进研究流程。触发场景:做研究、搜论文、找研究缺口、生成假设、跑实验、写论文、文献综述、benchmark对比 / Triggers: research, literature review, paper search, hypothesis… | ZS520L/ | 102 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 mo ago |
| 28 | Use only the current SciAtlas automated review workflow (reviewpipeline) to take a novice user from zero setup to a final automated review of a research idea or paper, including setup, registration… | zjunlp/ | 160 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 29 | Evaluates a draft research idea like a top-venue reviewer and advisor, scoring it on five dimensions, checking fit with your capacity and returning a clear verdict. | HKUSTDial/ | 8.4k | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 30 | A skill your agent uses when you have an approved research question and need a concrete analysis plan, before touching outcome data or fitting any model | K-Dense-AI/ | 348 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 24 days ago |
| 31 | Analyze connections across read papers and generate actionable research ideas. | AlphaLab-USTC/ | 134 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 32 | Takes a field of study or practice and finds the few independent generators behind it, testing each set by whether it can regenerate the observed phenomena. | lijigang/ | 7.5k | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 33 | Use only the current SciAtlas multi-step idea-generation workflow (sciatlasideagen) to take a novice user from zero setup to final literature-grounded research idea seeds, including setup… | zjunlp/ | 160 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 34 | Filter, compare, and rank papers, posts, captures, threads, bookmarks, product claims, or research ideas for high-entropy mechanistic insight and underpriced leverage. | tokenbender/ | 367 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 mo ago |
| 35 | Legal abductive reasoning skill for generating and evaluating the most reasonable explanatory hypotheses when evidence is incomplete or facts are ambiguous. | THUYRan/ | 868 | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 36 | Research viral content ideas from a project profile for Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok. | swaroop2004/ | 147 | — | ~920 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 37 | Deeply analyze any empirical economics PDF using the five-question framework (五问框架): research question, identification strategy, core estimand, robustness logic, and scholarly contribution. | brycewang-stanford/ | 4.5k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 38 | Clusters the latest news-feed results by topic and writes a briefing of research idea seeds with citations, plus a structured seeds file, without crawling new sources. | OpenLAIR/ | 1.2k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | 20 days ago |
| 39 | 39.Interview Me Interactive interview to formalize a research idea into a structured specification with hypotheses and empirical strategy | maxwell2732/ | 136 | 2 repos | ~921 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 40 | Use only SciAtlas search-papers to take a novice user from zero setup to final prior-art grounding for a research idea, including setup, registration guidance, configuration, retrieval, artifact… | zjunlp/ | 160 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 41 | Stress-test an academic research question, proposal, study design, analysis plan, manuscript claim, review protocol, or AI research project through a one-question-at-a-time interview until its… | Exekiel179/ | 103 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 days ago |
| 42 | Find and read academic papers: disambiguate queries, discover papers (search, citation traversal, recommendations, arXiv monitoring, trending, GitHub search), evaluate (TLDR, citations, code, SOTA)… | AI4Scientist/ | 128 | — | ~7.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 43 | Comprehensive product research and opportunity analysis for Amazon sellers. | nexscope-ai/ | 735 | 1 repo | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 44 | Generates and iteratively refines research ideas for a given area, checking each one's novelty against Semantic Scholar and arXiv, and scoring it on interestingness, feasibility and novelty. | lingzhi227/ | 383 | — | ~747 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 45 | 45.Denario Multiagent AI system for scientific research assistance that automates research workflows from data analysis to publication. | davila7/ | 32k | 9 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 46 | 學術研究的 Idea 產生技能——從發散到收斂,系統化地產出高品質研究構想。當使用者想腦力激盪研究方向、找新 research idea、或問「我接下來可以做什麼研究」時,一定要使用此技能。觸發詞包括:brainstorm、想 idea、研究方向、下一步做什麼、有什麼可以研究的、找 gap、research proposal。適用於任何階段的學術研究構想生成。 | voidful/ | 132 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 47 | 47.Hypogenic Automated hypothesis generation and testing using large language models. | davila7/ | 32k | 11 repos | ~5.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 48 | Generate structured research questions, testable hypotheses, and empirical strategies from a topic or dataset | maxwell2732/ | 136 | 2 repos | ~914 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best hypothesis generation skill?
Hypothesis Generation from spacering-net/codeg ranks first of the 224 hypothesis generation skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 3.8k GitHub stars, 15 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 3.6k tokens and it has informational notes only in the automated safety check. Next come Nature Paper Card and Prompt Improver.
Which hypothesis generation skills are official?
1 of the 224 hypothesis generation skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Scientific Problem Selection.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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