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. Standalone, Phase 1's landscape survey is inline (WebSearch — it does not invoke /research-lit); Phases 4-5 invoke /novelty-check, /run-experiment, and /monitor-experiment for validation and pilots. For the full sub-skill pipeline (/research-lit → idea generation → /novelty-check → /research-review), run /idea-discovery (Workflow 1), which orchestrates this skill.
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-5.5— Default model for the Codex backend. Must be an OpenAI model (e.g.,gpt-5.5,o3,gpt-4o). Manual backend uses whatever model the user chooses, but it must be a non-Claude model — the executor is Claude, so pasting into any Claude product makes Claude judge Claude and voids the cross-model invariant (seeshared-references/reviewer-routing.md). - REVIEWER_BACKEND =
codex— Default: Codex MCP (xhigh). Override with— reviewer: oracle-profor Oracle MCP, or— reviewer: manualfor Manual Review MCP. If manual-review MCP is unavailable, stop and print the install command; do not fall back to Codex. Seeshared-references/reviewer-routing.md. - OUTPUT_DIR =
idea-stage/— All idea-stage outputs go here. Create the directory if it doesn't exist.
💡 Override via argument, e.g.,
/idea-creator "topic" — pilot budget: 4h per idea, 20h total.