idea-discovery

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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-discoveryThe exact folder we audited
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Its description: Workflow 1: Full idea discovery pipeline to go from a broad research direction to validated, pilot-tested ideas. Use when user says "找idea全流程", "idea discovery pipeline", "从零开始找方向", or wants the complete idea…

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name: idea-discovery
description: "Workflow 1: Full idea discovery pipeline to go from a broad research direction to validated, pilot-tested ideas. Use when user says \"找idea全流程\", \"idea discovery pipeline\", \"从零开始找方向\", or wants the complete idea exploration workflow."
argument-hint: "[research-direction]"
allowed-tools: Bash(*), Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, WebSearch, WebFetch, Skill, mcp__codex__codex, mcp__codex__codex-reply
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# Workflow 1: Idea Discovery Pipeline

> **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.


Orchestrate a complete idea discovery workflow for: **$ARGUMENTS**

## Overview

This skill chains sub-skills into a single automated pipeline:

```
/research-lit → /idea-creator → /novelty-check → /research-review → /research-refine-pipeline
  (survey)      (brainstorm)    (verify novel)    (critical feedback)  (refine method + plan experiments)
```

Each phase builds on the previous one's output. The final deliverables are a validated `idea-stage/IDEA_REPORT.md` with ranked ideas, plus a refined proposal (`refine-logs/FINAL_PROPOSAL.md`) and experiment plan (`refine-logs/EXPERIMENT_PLAN.md`) for the top idea.

## Constants

- **PILOT_MAX_HOURS = 2** — Skip any pilot experiment estimated to take > 2 hours per GPU. Flag as "needs manual pilot" in the report.
- **PILOT_TIMEOUT_HOURS = 3** — Hard timeout: kill any running pilot that exceeds 3 hours. Collect partial results if available.
- **MAX_PILOT_IDEAS = 3** — Run pilots for at most 3 top ideas in parallel. Additional ideas are validated on paper only.
- **MAX_TOTAL_GPU_HOURS = 8** — Total GPU budget across all pilots. If exceeded, skip remaining pilots and note in report.
- **AUTO_PROCEED = true** — When `true`, checkpoints are informational: report the selected option and continue in the same turn. Set to `false` to ask for explicit user confirmation and end the turn at each selection checkpoint.
- **REVIEWER_MODEL = `gpt-6-astra`** — Model used via Codex MCP. For `backend=codex`, use an OpenAI model (e.g., `gpt-6-astra`, `gpt-6.1-sol`). Passed to sub-skills.
- **OUTPUT_DIR = `idea-stage/`** — All idea-stage outputs go here. Create the directory if it doesn't exist.
- **ARXIV_DOWNLOAD = false** — When `true`, `/research-lit` downloads the top relevant arXiv PDFs during Phase 1. When `false` (default), only fetches metadata. Passed through to `/research-lit`.
- **COMPACT = false** — When `true`, generate compact summary files for short-context models and session recovery. Writes `idea-stage/IDEA_CANDIDATES.md` (top 3-5 ideas only) at the end of this workflow. Downstream skills read this instead of the full `idea-stage/IDEA_REPORT.md`.
- **RENDER_HTML = true** — When `true` (default), auto-render `idea-stage/IDEA_REPORT.md` to HTML at workflow end via `/render-html`. Uses `--no-review` (the source MD already went through novelty + cross-model review during Phase 3). Set `false` to skip, or pass `— render html: false`.
- **REF_PAPER = false** — Reference paper to base ideas on. Accepts: local PDF path, arXiv URL, or any paper URL. When set, the paper is summarized first (`idea-stage/REF_PAPER_SUMMARY.md`), then idea generation uses it as context. Combine with `base repo` for "improve this paper with this codebase" workflows.
- **RESUMABLE = true** — Record stage evidence under `.aris/runs/<run_id>.json` and require a deterministic evidence gate before declaring the final report complete.

> 💡 These are defaults. Override by telling the skill, e.g., `/idea-discovery "topic" — ref paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04329` or `/idea-discovery "topic" — compact: true`.

## Checkpoint execution rule

Resolve `AUTO_PROCEED` once from `$ARGUMENTS` before Phase 0 and keep that mode
for the entire workflow.

- **`AUTO_PROCEED=true` is non-blocking.** A checkpoint is a progress update,
  not a question. State the result and the automatically selected next action,
  then continue executing in the **same turn**. Do not ask for confirmation,
  request user input, sleep, wait for silence, or end the turn at a checkpoint.
- **`AUTO_PROCEED=false` is blocking.** Present the options, ask the user, and
  end the turn. Resume only after an explicit reply.

Never implement auto-proceed as “ask, then continue if there is no response.”
Once a turn ends, silence cannot resume the workflow. The user can still
interrupt a non-blocking run at any time.

This rule governs only `AUTO_PROCEED`-controlled selection checkpoints. If the
user explicitly enables a Feishu **interactive** gate, that external approval
or reply is an intentional blocking exception; wait for that user-controlled
gate rather than treating it as a silence timeout. Feishu off/push-only modes
remain non-blocking under `AUTO_PROCEED=true`.

## Per-stage evidence gate (`RESUMABLE = true`)

Resolve `run_state.py` and `idea_discovery_gate.py` through the same canonical
helper chain used by `/research-pipeline`: `.aris/tools/` → `tools/` →
`$ARIS_REPO/tools/` → `~/.aris/repo/tools/`. If either helper is unavailable,
the final report is `BLOCKED`; do not silently continue without a state record.

For a new run, derive `<run_id>` from the direction slug and date, then start
this ordered state record with `--executor <actual-Claude-model>` (for example,
`claude-sonnet-4.5`):

```text
research-lit,idea-creato

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