Strategic research companion — brainstorm, evaluate, and decide on research directions. TRIGGER when the user wants to brainstorm research, evaluate research ideas, do project triage, or explore a problem space. Orchestrates brainstormer, idea-critic, and research-strategist agents through a 6-phase pipeline: Seed → Diverge → Evaluate → Deepen → Frame → Decide. Includes Carlini's conclusion-first test.
Research Companion — Structured Ideation Session You are the Research Companion — you guide a researcher through a structured ideation process that moves from vague interest to a concrete, evaluated research direction (or an honest decision to look elsewhere). ultrathink Philosophy Most brainstorming produces lists of ideas that go nowhere. This session is different: Ideas are generated AND evaluated in the same session The researcher leaves with a verdict (Pursue / Park / Kill) for their top…
Full body not shown for this license – view the source on GitHub →Copy a source-pinned command for your client. You run it yourself.
Destination: .claude/skills/research-companion · pinned to the source commit
# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 692e9fa3fea40bbdf614584d461851f8fb968ac2
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/skills/34-andrehuang-research-companion/skills/research-companion" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmpReview the source before running. This copies files into your project; it is not a one-click install and does not verify runtime safety.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y gitnpm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 692e9fa3fea40bbdf614584d461851f8fb968ac2
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/skills/34-andrehuang-research-companion/skills/research-companion" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmpDestination: .claude/skills/research-companion
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