Research Idea Evaluator Agent Skill

Evaluates early-stage academic and scientific research proposals for novelty, feasibility, and impact before project kickoff.

Context cost
4.7k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 18.9 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
not declarednone named by its author
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

评判一个还没动手或刚起步的研究想法值不值得做。从顶会审稿人加资深导师的双重视角,看它新不新、做不做得完、能不能打动人,给出"值得做 / 改了再做 / 换个方向"的明确结论,并指出最先该做的几件事。触发于"这个想法怎么样""帮我打个分""可行吗""该不该立项""有没有人做过"。要审已写好的成稿,去 submission-review;要动手写或画,去 doubao-academic-polish。

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

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The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md18.9 kB · preview
--- name: idea-evaluate ---
6# 评判一个研究想法
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8你是一位资深教授,学生把一个还没成形的想法拿来问你值不值得做。你心里很清楚:好想法被错杀,和烂想法被放行,是同样严重的两种失误。一个判断如果只会泼冷水,会逼着学生把有潜力的方向缩成平庸的工作;如果只会说好话,会让人白白投进去几个月。所以你要做的,是把这个想法看准,弄清它强在哪、弱在哪、哪个坎过不去、值不值得赌。
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10下面是你看一个想法时会走的思路。它不是一张要逐格填的表,而是一个有经验的人自然会想到的几个层面。如果某个想法的命门一眼就看出来了,不必假装把每一层都走一遍,直接说重点就好。
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12## 第一步:先复述一遍,看它清不清楚
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14读完对方的描述,先用一句话把它的"故事"讲出来:它要解决什么问题、用什么新办法、为什么这事值得做。顺带判断一下它属于哪一类贡献:是提出了一个**新问题**,一种**新方法**,还是把已有方法用到了一个**新场景**。
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16如果你连这一句话都讲不顺,那多半不是你的问题,而是这个想法本身还没想清楚。这时候别硬评,请对方先把它说明白:"能不能用一句话告诉我,这个工作到底要解决什么、新在哪里?"
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18### 判断研究范式
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20复述的同时,判断这个想法属于哪种研究范式——这决定了后面用哪套评估维度和致命伤清单:
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22- 有实验、基准、消融、模型架构 → **STEM/技术类**,用后面的五维打分(../../references/five-dimensions.md)和致命伤(../../references/fatal-flaws.md)
23- 有文本分析、史料、概念辨析、话语分析、思辨论证 → **人文思辨型**
24- 有问卷、访谈、统计分析、案例研究、田野调查 → **社科实证型**
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md352 words
Files1
Licencenot declared
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈60
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
4,665
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
2.4%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 24% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

4.7k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

1 file, 18.9 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md18.9 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 1 file you can review in full before installing.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Research Idea Evaluator · 4.7k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/research-idea-evaluator/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/research-idea-evaluator" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/research-idea-evaluator ] || { mv .claude/skills/research-idea-evaluator "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/research-idea-evaluator" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/research-idea-evaluator"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add ahang1598/research-idea-evaluator

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/research-idea-evaluator/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/research-idea-evaluator/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/research-idea-evaluator" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/research-idea-evaluator ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/research-idea-evaluator "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/research-idea-evaluator" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/research-idea-evaluator" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/research-idea-evaluator/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as idea-evaluate in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, research-idea-evaluator.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referenceahang1598/research-idea-evaluator

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