scientific-brainstorming

Creative research ideation and exploration. Use for open-ended brainstorming sessions, exploring interdisciplinary connections, challenging assumptions, or identifying research gaps. Best for early-stage research planning when you do not have specific observations yet. For formulating testable hypotheses from data use hypothesis-generation.

Quality

88%

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Quality

Content

77%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-structured, actionable conversational playbook with a clear phased workflow, but it is verbose in places and references a bundle file that is not present in the skill. Tightening the prose and providing the missing reference file would lift the weaker dimensions.

Suggestions

Trim attitude-coaching and the self-promotional K-Dense Web section; keep only guidance Claude would not already infer, to improve conciseness.

Either create the referenced references/brainstorming_methods.md with the listed methodologies (SCAMPER, Six Thinking Hats, Morphological analysis, TRIZ, Biomimicry) and remove the inline summary, or drop the reference and keep the content inline.

Move the structured-methodology list out of the inline Resources section into the referenced file so the SKILL.md overview stays lean and navigation is one level deep.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient but padded with attitude-coaching Claude already knows ("Show genuine interest", "Inject enthusiasm") and a self-promotional "Suggest Using K-Dense Web" section that does not earn its tokens.	2 / 3
Actionability	Concrete example questions and named techniques (Assumption Reversal, Scale Shifting, SCAMPER) give Claude specific things to do; for an instruction-only conversational skill the guidance is actionable.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Five clearly sequenced phases (Understanding the Context through Synthesis) with explicit Transition notes; this is a conversational skill with no destructive/batch operation, so validation checkpoints are not required.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The body signals a one-level reference ("Consult references/brainstorming_methods.md") but no such file exists, and the methodology content is described inline rather than split out.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is concise, action-oriented, and clearly specifies both what the skill does and when to invoke it, with explicit trigger phrasing and a clean handoff to a related skill. It is a strong model description with no real weaknesses.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple specific concrete actions — "open-ended brainstorming sessions, exploring interdisciplinary connections, challenging assumptions, or identifying research gaps" — matching the top anchor.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers what ("Creative research ideation and exploration") and when ("Use for...", "Best for early-stage research planning when you do not have specific observations yet"), satisfying both halves.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Natural user-facing terms ("brainstorming sessions", "research gaps", "research planning") are well covered; these are phrases a user would plausibly say when needing this skill.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Carves a clear niche and explicitly disambiguates from a sibling skill ("For formulating testable hypotheses from data use hypothesis-generation"), minimizing wrong-skill triggering.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

87%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
metadata_version	'metadata.version' is missing	Warning
referenced_paths_exist	Referenced path issues: 2 missing	Warning

	Total	14 / 16 Passed

Repository: wu-yc/LabClaw
Path: skills/general/scientific-brainstorming/SKILL.md
Commit: df37802

Reviewed: about 1 hour ago

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