idea-creator

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Five audit layers

Gates applied: no behavioural pass.

You are a senior ML researcher brainstorming research ideas.

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• Publisherwanshuiyin GitHub userOwner of the repository this skill is read from
• Source folderwanshuiyin/auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/skills/idea-creatorThe exact folder we audited
• LicenceMITAs the repository states it
• Commit pinned for this verdict1cf95b4becf0A new audit runs when the source changes
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• Sandboxed runNot runSkills are read, not executed; layer L4 is skipped

Its description: Generate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user says "找idea", "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research area for publishable directions.

---
name: idea-creator
description: Generate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user says "找idea", "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research area for publishable directions.
argument-hint: "[research-direction]"
allowed-tools: Bash(*), Read, Write, Grep, Glob, WebSearch, WebFetch, Agent(aris-fanout-leaf), Skill, mcp__codex__codex, mcp__codex__codex-reply, mcp__manual_review__review, mcp__manual_review__review_reply, mcp__antigravity__antigravity, mcp__antigravity__antigravity-reply, mcp__grok__grok, mcp__grok__grok-reply, mcp__claude-review__review, mcp__claude-review__review_reply, mcp__claude-review__review_start, mcp__claude-review__review_reply_start, mcp__claude-review__review_status
---

# Research Idea Creator

> **Before each reviewer slot**, follow [Selectable Reviewers](../shared-references/reviewer-backends.md):
> resolve invocation → `.aris/reviewer.json` → Claude Code default (Codex MCP)
> with `reviewer_route.py` through the canonical helper resolver, preserving this
> slot's tier, fresh contexts, source/image inputs and deterministic gates.
> Codex examples/pins below apply only to `backend=codex`; other routes use their
> own first-call/reply contract. Save the route and actual returned identity;
> unavailable selections are `REVIEW_UNAVAILABLE`. Classify acceptance from actual
> families/completion/scope. Forward invocation reviewer/model/effort overrides
> to reviewer-bearing children. Generation workers are unchanged.


Generate publishable research ideas for: $ARGUMENTS

## Overview

Given a broad research direction from the user, systematically generate, validate, and rank concrete research ideas. Standalone, Phase 1's landscape survey is **inline** (WebSearch — it does not invoke `/research-lit`); Phases 4-5 invoke `/novelty-check`, `/run-experiment`, and `/monitor-experiment` for validation and pilots. For the full sub-skill pipeline (`/research-lit` → idea generation → `/novelty-check` → `/research-review`), run `/idea-discovery` (Workflow 1), which orchestrates this skill.

## Constants

Reviewer overrides apply to Phase 4 and reviewer-bearing children. Phase 2
brainstorming and native lens workers keep their existing generation model; do
not pass a selected MCP reviewer model into a native generation call.

- **PILOT_MAX_HOURS = 2** — Skip any pilot estimated to take > 2 hours per GPU. Flag as "needs manual pilot".
- **PILOT_TIMEOUT_HOURS = 3** — Hard timeout: kill pilots exceeding 3 hours. Collect partial results if available.
- **MAX_PILOT_IDEAS = 3** — Pilot at most 3 ideas in parallel. Additional ideas are validated on paper only.
- **MAX_TOTAL_GPU_HOURS = 8** — Total GPU budget for all pilots combined.
- **REVIEWER_MODEL = `gpt-6-astra`** — Default for `backend=codex`; generation keeps its existing model. Review models come from the selected route. For manual review, require a recognized actual reviewer model different from the actual executor family; never infer the executor family from the Claude Code host.
- **REVIEWER_BACKEND = `codex`** — Default: Codex MCP (xhigh). Override with `— reviewer: oracle-pro` for Oracle MCP, or `— reviewer: manual` for Manual Review MCP. If manual-review MCP is unavailable, stop and print the install command; do not fall back to Codex. See `shared-references/reviewer-routing.md`.
- **OUTPUT_DIR = `idea-stage/`** — All idea-stage outputs go here. Create the directory if it doesn't exist.

> 💡 Override via argument, e.g., `/idea-creator "topic" — pilot budget: 4h per idea, 20h total`.

## Reviewer Calling Convention

When calling the reviewer for idea evaluation, branch on REVIEWER_BACKEND:

**If REVIEWER_BACKEND = `codex`:**
  Use `mcp__codex__codex` for new review threads.
  Use `mcp__codex__codex-reply` for follow-up rounds (reuse threadId).

**If REVIEWER_BACKEND = `manual`:**
  Use `mcp__manual_review__review` for new review threads with:
    prompt: [exact same prompt that would go to Codex]
    config: {"model_reasoning_effort": "xhigh", "executor_model": "<actual executor model>", "require_reviewer_model": true}
  Save the returned `threadId`.
  Use `mcp__manual_review__review_reply` for follow-up rounds with:
    threadId: [saved manual-review threadId]
    prompt: [follow-up prompt]
    config: {"model_reasoning_effort": "xhigh", "executor_model": "<actual executor model>", "require_reviewer_model": true}

Content fidelity: the manual reviewer should see the same substantive bundle
content Codex would read. If the manual UI supports file upload / attachment,
reuse the same bundle file; otherwise paste the bundle contents inline because
remote web UIs cannot read your local filesystem paths. Review tracing applies
equally to both backends.

## Workflow

### Phase 0: Load Research Wiki (if active)
  A verdict-bearing manual response MUST begin with
  `Reviewer-Model: <exact-model-id>` — pass the model THIS session is actually
  running as in `executor_model`. Missing, unknown, or same-family identity
  cannot acquit; emit `REVIEW_UNAVAILABLE` rather than guessing. If the executor
  model cannot be named, manual review's cross-family claim is unprovable — say
  so in the report instead of asserting it.


**Skip this phase entirely if `research-wiki/` does not exist.**

If `research-wiki/` exists, resolve the canonical helper using the
shared resolution chain (see `../research-wiki/SKILL.md` for the
contract):

```bash
cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)" || exit 1
ARIS_REPO="${ARIS_REPO:-}"
ARIS_HOME="${HOME:-}"
if [ -z "${ARIS_REPO:-}" ] && [ -f .aris/installed-skills.txt ]; then
  ARIS_REPO=$(awk -F'\t' '$1=="repo_root"{print $2; exit}' .aris/installed-skills.txt 2>/dev/null) || true
fi
if [ -z "${ARIS_REPO:-}" ] && [ -n "$ARIS_HOME" ] && [ -f "$ARIS_HOME/.aris/repo" ]; then
  ARIS_REPO=$(cat "$ARIS_HOME/.aris/repo" 2>/dev/null) || true
fi
WIKI_SCRIPT=".aris/tools/research_wiki.py"
[ -f "$WIKI_SCRIPT" ] || WIKI_SCRIP

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1. 2026-10-31
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   first audit · source 1cf95b4becf0

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