Scientific Discovery Skill

Identify research gaps, synthesize cross-disciplinary knowledge, and facilitate novel scientific discovery.

When to Use

• "What are the open problems in this field?"
• "Are there connections between X and Y research areas?"
• "What's unexplored in this space?"
• "How could findings from field A apply to field B?"
• "Identify novel research directions"
• Cross-disciplinary brainstorming

When NOT to Use

• Standard literature search (use literature-search)
• Writing a review paper (use scienceclaw-summarization + paper-writing)
• Routine hypothesis generation (use scienceclaw-generation)
• Fact-checking (use scienceclaw-verification)