Research Idea Creator

Research Idea Creator is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by OpenLAIR in dr-claw.

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ai-agentsai-scientistauto-researchclaude-codeclaude-science-desktop-alternativeclaude-science-freeliterature-reviewpaper-writingresearch-assistant

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Install Research Idea Creator

Copy Research Idea Creator 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/OpenLAIR/dr-claw/tree/main/skills/aris-idea-creator ~/.claude/skills/aris-idea-creator

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/OpenLAIR/dr-claw.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/aris-idea-creator/SKILL.md in OpenLAIR/dr-claw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/aris-idea-creator
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Research Idea Creator does

Research Idea Creator generates, validates, and ranks publishable research ideas from a broad topic. Use it when you need brainstormed directions, quick novelty checks, and a shortlist of ideas to test.

Research Idea Creator is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Research Idea Creator comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-scientist, auto-research, claude-code and claude-science-desktop-alternative.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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 /aris-research-lit, /aris-novelty-check, and /aris-research-review to form a complete idea discovery pipeline.

Constants

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

Commands Research Idea Creator provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/aris-research-lit
/aris-novelty-check
/aris-research-review
/aris-idea-creator
/aris-run-experiment
/aris-monitor-experiment
/aris-auto-review-loop

Frequently asked about Research Idea Creator

What else does OpenLAIR publish alongside Research Idea Creator?
Research Idea Creator is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from OpenLAIR/dr-claw, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ARIS Infra, Ablation Planner and Academic Researcher. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Research Idea Creator does, and is maintained by OpenLAIR in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the OpenLAIR/dr-claw page.
How does Research Idea Creator compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Research Idea Creator ranks #1344 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 Creator against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.