Research Idea Brainstorming

Research Idea Brainstorming is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by OpenRaiser in NanoResearch.

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Install Research Idea Brainstorming

Copy Research Idea Brainstorming into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/OpenRaiser/NanoResearch/tree/main/skills/vendor-ai-research/brainstorming-research-ideas ~/.claude/skills/brainstorming-research-ideas

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/OpenRaiser/NanoResearch.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/vendor-ai-research/brainstorming-research-ideas/SKILL.md in OpenRaiser/NanoResearch
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/brainstorming-research-ideas
Collection: One of 16 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Research Idea Brainstorming does

Research Idea Brainstorming guides researchers through structured ideation frameworks to discover high-impact research directions. Use it when exploring new problem spaces, pivoting between projects, or seeking novel angles on existing work.

Research Idea Brainstorming is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Research Idea Brainstorming comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agents, ai, ai-agents and ai-scientist.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Research Idea Brainstorming

Structured frameworks for discovering the next research idea. This skill provides ten complementary ideation lenses that help researchers move from vague curiosity to concrete, defensible research proposals. Each framework targets a different cognitive mode—use them individually or combine them for comprehensive exploration.

When to Use This Skill

Starting a new research direction and need structured exploration
Feeling stuck on a current project and want fresh angles
Evaluating whether a half-formed idea has real potential
Preparing for a brainstorming session with collaborators
Transitioning between research areas and seeking high-leverage entry points
Reviewing a field and looking for underexplored gaps

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Research Idea Brainstorming

What else does OpenRaiser publish alongside Research Idea Brainstorming?
Research Idea Brainstorming is one of 16 skills that DirSkills catalogs from OpenRaiser/NanoResearch, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Academic Plotting, Autoresearch and Creative Thinking for Research. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Research Idea Brainstorming does, and is maintained by OpenRaiser in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the OpenRaiser/NanoResearch page.
How does Research Idea Brainstorming compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Research Idea Brainstorming ranks #1081 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Research Idea Brainstorming against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.