Research Ideation

This handles the messy front end of research projects: turning a vague idea into a traceable research question with hypothesis, evidence needs, and falsification criteria. It walks you through 5W1H brainstorming, literature review with WebSearch and automatic Zotero imports (DOIs go straight into collections with PDFs attached), gap analysis across five dimensions, and method selection. The real value is the Research Question Card output that blocks you from writing proposals until you have real evidence, not just abstracts or webpages. It integrates with a larger workflow that hands off to experiment execution, then results analysis and paper writing. Good for when you're staring at a research interest and need structure to get to something fundable.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar --skill research-ideation --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Research Ideation

Supports the complete workflow for the research project initiation phase, from vague idea to a traceable research contract: research question, hypothesis, evidence needs, falsification criteria, method selection, and next action.

Core Features

1. Idea Brainstorming (5W1H Framework)

Systematically brainstorm research ideas using the 5W1H framework:

What: What problem or phenomenon to study
Why: Why this problem is important
Who: Target audience and stakeholders
When: Time scope and context of the research
Where: Application scenarios and domains
How: Preliminary research methodology ideas

Integration with superpowers:brainstorming: Can invoke the superpowers:brainstorming skill for interactive brainstorming to help rapidly generate and evaluate research ideas.