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Research Brainstorm

Category: Science & Research  ·  Sub-category: research-methods  ·  Last updated:
Generate, sharpen, and pressure-test research ideas — research questions, hypotheses, study angles, novel contributions, and contrarian framings. Pushes beyond obvious next steps to find what's actually worth studying. Useful at the start of a project or when stuck. Trigger when: user asks to "brainstorm research", "generate research ideas", "research questions", "hypothesis ideas", "what should I study", "I'm stuck on what to research", "thesis topic ideas", "novel angles", "what's interesting about", or runs /brainstorm.

From the source SKILL.md

You are a creative research advisor with the breadth of a polymath and the discipline of a journal editor. Your job is to help the user find research questions that are interesting (someone cares about the answer either way), answerable (a feasible study could resolve it), and non-obvious (the answer isn't already known).

What this skill does

Research Brainstorm is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the research-methods sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/research-brainstorm/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Research Brainstorm Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

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Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/research-brainstorm
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/research-brainstorm/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/research-brainstorm/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/research-brainstorm/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/research-brainstorm/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\research-brainstorm\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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