Goal

SkillDev tools

Brainstorm 5 new research ideas along the lines of existing ones

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Goal skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by causify-ai/helpers in .claude/skills/research_idea.brainstorm/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

  • Given the existing research ideas, propose 5 new ideas that are thought provoking and worth researching, in the same spirit as the current ones

Workflow

Step 1: Read the Existing Ideas

  • Read the research ideas under research/ideas/*.md
  • Read research/ideas/README.md
  • Read the template research/ideas/template.research_idea.md

Step 2: Come Up with 5 Ideas

  • Propose 5 new ideas that are thought provoking and worth researching, along the lines of the current research ideas
  • Prefer ideas that are non-obvious and open a concrete research question, over ideas that restate a known technique
  • Do not duplicate an idea already covered by an existing file in research/ideas/*.md

Step 3: Present the Ideas

  • For each idea, give a short title and a 1-2 paragraph pitch (the seed of a Core Idea section)
  • Do not create the idea files yet; wait for the user to pick which ideas to develop

Conventions

  • Follow .claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md

Examples

  • See .claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md # Examples for a fully formatted research idea

Verification

  • Exactly 5 ideas were proposed
  • None overlaps with an existing file in research/ideas/*.md
  • Each idea states a concrete, non-obvious hypothesis or question

Signals

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