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Research idea workshop
Name your research area. Get ideas built, challenged and ranked, with assumptions and a decision log.
Research idea workshop is a free AI skill for the job "Research a topic properly". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · MIT licence · Made by K-Dense · Level: beginner · Thinking: high
Made by K-Dense. See the original on GitHub; we copied it as it is, with its licence.
What it does
A structured brainstorm for your research area that builds ideas, challenges them and ranks them, ending with a log of why you chose what you chose. Ideas stay proposals until evidence says otherwise. It keeps four jobs apart: making ideas, checking evidence, testing hypotheses and getting ethics review. First each idea is written on its own, to avoid copying the loudest one. Then a structured discussion adds options, and an adversarial round attacks the weak points. Every idea lists its hidden assumptions. A transparent scoring step ranks them, and a decision log records the reasons. Small Python tools help organise the output.
You give it
- Research area or question
- Participants and their views (optional)
- Criteria that matter to you
- Existing evidence (optional)
You get
- List of candidate ideas
- Stated assumptions for each
- Challenge notes on weak points
- Ranked shortlist
- Decision log
Use it when
- You lead a lab meeting and want a fair way to pick a direction.
- You want your ideas attacked before you invest months.
- You need a written record of why you chose one idea.
- You are working alone and want the group effect.
How to use it
- Add it to your AI once: download it and add the folder to Claude, ChatGPT or Codex as a skill.
- Ask for the job in your own words. Your AI opens the skill when it fits.