Generate Theories

Uses the Theorizer agent (via asta-gateway) to find papers, extract evidence, write theories, and score novelty. Auth: asta auth login.

The CLI is generated from the agent card — every subcommand, flag, and default. Discover the surface yourself:

• asta generate-theories --help — list subcommands.
• asta generate-theories card — full agent card.
• asta generate-theories describe <skill-id> — input schema for one skill.

This skill is in two halves. The first describes what Theorizer is — its three composable stages, the bundled end-to-end version, and the standalone subcommands. The second describes how to handle a generate-theories request end-to-end — choosing a mode, shaping the question, dispatching, checkpoints, handoff, and error handling.

What this skill is good for

• Generating literature-grounded scientific theories about research questions ("how does X affect Y, via what mechanism, in what domain").
• Finding evidence in published papers to support or contradict a hypothesis.
• Scoring theory novelty against existing literature.
• Surveying what's known and unknown in a research area through extracted variables and findings.

The pipeline