lamm-mit Idea Generation Skill Summary
This workflow generates 5 research ideas grounded in literature, following this process:
Key Steps
- Check Workspace – Audit existing papers in
$W/papers/ - Plan Strategy – Decide whether to use current collection or search for more papers
- Acquire Resources – Either delegate to
/research-collect(100+ papers) or run quick searches - Analyze Literature – Extract contributions, methods, limitations, and gaps from papers
- Generate Ideas – Create 5 distinct concepts using different strategies (combination, simplification, generalization, constraint relaxation, architecture innovation)
- Score & Enhance – Rate ideas by novelty/feasibility/impact; detail the top candidate with math and implementation roadmap
- Code Mapping – Link concepts to reference implementations
- Summarize – Document all findings and next steps
Core Principle
"Ideas MUST be grounded in actual papers, not generated from model knowledge." Each idea requires citations (≥2 papers by arXiv ID).
Output Location
Results save to $W/ideas/ as individual markdown files, plus consolidated summary.
Integration
Works with /research-collect (upstream) and /research-pipeline (downstream for implementation).