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clarify-research-idea

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Fine to try.

By cpt13-g/clarify-research-idea (GitHub) · research · 291 stars · scanned at commit 1f8334d

Turn vague or partially formed AI, computer-science, data-driven, and engineering-method research directions into evidence-grounded, falsifiable, paper-ready Research Idea Briefs through heuristic questioning, staged confirmation, literature positioning, novelty attack, and method-figure planning. Use when the user needs to clarify a research idea, formalize inputs/outputs/objectives/constraints, frame background and motivation, select 3-5 anchor papers, identify a defensible gap, derive 2-3 co…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'clarify-research-idea' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'clarify-research-idea' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named clarify-research-idea already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/cpt13-g/clarify-research-idea' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '1f8334d144b39f9fb029293d26e1dc16196212d2' -- '.agents/skills/clarify-research-idea' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.agents/skills/clarify-research-idea' ~/.agents/skills/'clarify-research-idea' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'clarify-research-idea' ~/.claude/skills/'clarify-research-idea' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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