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NanoResearch Ideation (Literature Search & Hypothesis Generation)

Searches arXiv and Semantic Scholar, analyses research gaps, and proposes novel hypotheses for a given topic.

EducationIntermediate★ 1,357⑂ 95AI score 6/10Last updated: May 26, 2026

What it does

Give it a research topic and Claude runs this pipeline:

  1. Generates 5–8 diverse search queries from the topic
  2. Searches arXiv and Semantic Scholar
  3. Deduplicates and ranks papers by relevance
  4. Analyses the collected papers to identify research gaps
  5. Proposes 2–4 novel hypotheses that address those gaps
  6. Picks the most promising hypothesis with a justification

Everything is written to papers/ideation_output.json — paper metadata, survey summary, gap analysis, and the hypothesis list — so downstream steps can reuse it.

Who it's for

  • Graduate students and researchers hunting for a thesis direction
  • Anyone who needs a fast sweep of prior work to find a differentiator
  • People drafting research proposals or R&D plans

Examples

  • "Survey recent work on long-term memory for LLM agents and list what nobody has solved yet"
  • Run three candidate thesis topics and compare hypothesis quality and prior-work density
  • Use the generated ideation_output.json to draft the Related Work section of a proposal

Prerequisite: arXiv / Semantic Scholar search tools (e.g. via MCP) must be connected to Claude Code.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install in Claude Code

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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/nanoresearch-ideation folder from the GitHub repo OpenRaiser/NanoResearch into my ~/.claude/skills/nanoresearch-ideation/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/OpenRaiser/NanoResearch.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r NanoResearch/skills/nanoresearch-ideation ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/OpenRaiser/NanoResearch.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r NanoResearch/skills/nanoresearch-ideation ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Connect arXiv / Semantic Scholar search tools to Claude Code (see the repo README for MCP/tool setup).
  6. Restart Claude Code and ask: "Use nanoresearch-ideation to survey '<topic>' and generate hypotheses".
  7. Check that papers/ideation_output.json was created in your working directory.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT