Individual skill

research-brainstorm

Brainstorm and stress-test research ideas as a senior scholar colleague would. Runs a multi-turn dialogue that clarifies the seed question (or generates one from cold start), probes it conversationally, launches a parallel deep literature scan across published and working-paper sources, critiques the question adversarially, generates 2–3 alternative framings, assesses feasibility (delegating to the find-data skill when available), and writes a research brief to the working directory. Trigger when the user asks to brainstorm a research idea, stress-test a research question, workshop a project, develop a new paper idea, assess novelty of a question, evaluate whether an idea is worth pursuing, refine a research direction, or check whether an idea clears a top-journal bar. Also trigger on phrases like "brainstorm with me", "is this novel", "has anyone done this", "what should I work on", "help me think through this idea", "workshop this question", "stress-test this", "poke holes in this", "new research idea", "research project idea", or when the user describes a half-formed question and asks for feedback. Use regardless of field but tuned for empirical economics and adjacent social sciences.

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Nov 11, 2026

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