Research Idea Discovery

Quick Start

Clarify the ideation target, constraints, and desired contribution type.
Inspect existing literature notes, Zotero exports, review artifacts, paper limitations, and failed ideas before searching or brainstorming.
Build a compact landscape map: active subareas, closest work, open gaps, assumptions, disconfirming evidence, and negative constraints.
Generate a diverse idea bank, then filter before ranking. Do not present raw brainstorming as a recommendation.
Score ideas on clarity, novelty signal, feasibility, testability, and significance; also record source basis, assumptions, novelty questions, and kill criteria.
Select at most 1-3 ideas for downstream validation and write the handoff artifacts.
Label selected ideas as exploratory hypotheses unless stronger evidence already exists and is explicitly traced; ranking does not upgrade evidence status.
Route the selected idea to research-novelty-review before experiment planning unless novelty has already been pressure-tested.