Scientific Brainstorming
This is for when you need a thought partner to generate research ideas before you have data in hand. It walks through five phases: understanding your context, divergent exploration using techniques like cross-domain analogies and assumption reversal, making connections between ideas, critical evaluation, and synthesis into next steps. The workflow emphasizes conversation over lecture, with prompts designed to challenge assumptions and push beyond safe ideas. It explicitly distinguishes itself from hypothesis generation, which is for when you already have observations. The included reference file covers structured methods like SCAMPER and TRIZ if you want more framework. Works well for identifying research gaps or getting unstuck on methodology.
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$ npx -y skills add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills --skill scientific-brainstorming --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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Scientific Brainstorming
Purpose and boundaries
Use this skill to create, organize, challenge, and transparently prioritize
candidate research directions. Treat every output as a proposal, not a
finding. Creativity methods can alter participation and idea yield, but no
method universally improves originality, usefulness, or scientific validity.
The evidence base and its limits are summarized in
references/sources.md.
Keep these activities separate:
- Ideation creates questions, mechanisms, alternatives, or study concepts.
- Evidence assessment checks what reliable literature and data support.
- Hypothesis validation requires observations, predictions, suitable designs, analyses, and independent scrutiny; brainstorming cannot validate a hypothesis.
- Ethics, biosafety, dual-use, regulatory, and institutional review require the relevant authorized reviewers. A brainstorm is never approval.
- Clinical advice requires qualified clinicians and patient-specific context. Do not turn research ideas into diagnosis or treatment guidance.
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