Research Ideation

This is a structured pipeline for going from research question to ranked proposal. It forces you through literature grounding with paper-navigator (no shortcuts to generic web search), generates ideas using three personas (innovator, pragmatist, critic), refines them in parallel tracks, then runs an ELO tournament to rank candidates. You get a top-3 presentation before expanding the winner into a full proposal. The workflow is opinionated about preventing dead ends by loading prior memory and building a challenge-insight tree from real papers. It's clearly designed for people running multiple research cycles who need systematic idea evaluation, not ad-hoc brainstorming.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add evoscientist/evoskills --skill research-ideation --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Research Ideation

From research goal to ranked ideas and a detailed proposal.

Step 0: Load evo-memory (M_I)
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Step 1: Define Goal
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Step 2: Literature Grounding (MUST use paper-navigator scripts)
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Step 3: Generate Ideas (3 directions × 3 personas)
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Step 4: Refine Ideas (3 tracks × N iterations)
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Step 5: ELO Tournament → Present Top-3 to User
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Step 6: Update evo-memory (IDE)
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User Selects
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Step 7: Expand into Proposal
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Step 8: Validate and Iterate