Agent Skill
Brainstorming Research Ideas skill
brainstorming-research-ideasOrchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs21-research-ideation/brainstorming-research-ideas/SKILL.md
Guides researchers through structured ideation frameworks to discover high-impact research directions. Use when exploring new problem spaces, pivoting between projects, or seeking novel angles on existing work.
always on
42 tokname + description
once used
4,096 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
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Install the Brainstorming Research Ideas skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs --skill brainstorming-research-ideas
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs.git /tmp/AI-Research-SKILLs mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/AI-Research-SKILLs/21-research-ideation/brainstorming-research-ideas ~/.claude/skills/brainstorming-research-ideas
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 42 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 4,096 tok |
| Only if opened | No bundled files | — |
Until it is used, brainstorming-research-ideas costs about 32× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 98 skills from Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs would load 6,174 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- Research Idea Brainstorming
- When to Use This Skill
- Core Ideation Frameworks
- 1. Problem-First vs. Solution-First Thinking
- 2. The Abstraction Ladder
- 3. Tension and Contradiction Hunting
- 4. Cross-Pollination (Analogy Transfer)
- 5. The "What Changed?" Principle
- 6. Failure Analysis and Boundary Probing
- 7. The Simplicity Test
- 8. Stakeholder Rotation
- 9. Composition and Decomposition
- 10. The "Explain It to Someone" Test
- Integrated Brainstorming Workflow
- Phase 1: Diverge (Generate Candidates)
- Phase 2: Converge (Filter and Rank)
- Phase 3: Refine (Sharpen the Winner)
- Framework Selection Guide
- Common Pitfalls in Research Ideation
- Usage Instructions for Agents
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