idea-creator
Installation
SKILL.md
Research Idea Creator
Generate publishable research ideas for: $ARGUMENTS
Overview
Given a broad research direction from the user, systematically generate, validate, and rank concrete research ideas. This skill composes with /research-lit, /novelty-check, and /research-review to form a complete idea discovery pipeline.
Constants
- PILOT_MAX_HOURS = 2 — Skip any pilot estimated to take > 2 hours per GPU. Flag as "needs manual pilot".
- PILOT_TIMEOUT_HOURS = 3 — Hard timeout: kill pilots exceeding 3 hours. Collect partial results if available.
- MAX_PILOT_IDEAS = 3 — Pilot at most 3 ideas in parallel. Additional ideas are validated on paper only.
- MAX_TOTAL_GPU_HOURS = 8 — Total GPU budget for all pilots combined.
- REVIEWER_MODEL =
gpt-5.4— Model used via Codex MCP for brainstorming and review. Must be an OpenAI model (e.g.,gpt-5.4,o3,gpt-4o).
💡 Override via argument, e.g.,
/idea-creator "topic" — pilot budget: 4h per idea, 20h total.