Scientific Brainstorming Facilitator

Runs evidence-aware research ideation with independent generation, transparent scoring, adversarial review, and an auditable decision log.

EducationIntermediate★ 33,030⑂ 3,248AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

Scopes a session around one focal question, recording constraints, out-of-scope topics, and sensitive areas (human subjects, animals, clinical care, controlled technologies).
Forces independent, private idea generation before group discussion to limit anchoring and production blocking.
Captures each idea with a stable ID, provenance (human / AI-assisted / literature-inspired), assumptions, testable predictions, and possible disconfirming evidence.
Defines criteria, directions, and weights before scoring, keeping raw ratings, uncertainty ranges, dissent, and abstentions visible.
Runs adversarial review by non-authors and enforces feasibility/ethics/dual-use gates that override any high creativity score.
Ships optional deterministic Python CLIs (standard library only, no network or LLM calls) to scaffold a session register, validate it, and compute a fully disclosed weighted matrix with sensitivity analysis.

Who it's for

Researchers and PIs facilitating lab meetings or grant ideation who need bias controls.
R&D and strategy teams prioritizing candidate directions with a documented rationale.
Teams that must disclose and audit AI-assisted contributions to research ideas.

Example uses

"Which mechanisms could explain this microbiome observation?" → scope, independent round, clustering, criteria definition, then a weighted evaluation matrix.
Narrowing five candidate directions to two: assign non-originating reviewers, log falsifying observations, alternative explanations, mitigations, and the final decision.
Run python scripts/session_scaffold.py to create a register, then validate_register.py to catch missing provenance or structural gaps.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/scientific-brainstorming ~/.claude/skills/

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Open a terminal. If you want the CLIs, confirm python3 --version is 3.11 or newer.
Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git
Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
Copy the skill: cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/scientific-brainstorming ~/.claude/skills/
Verify that SKILL.md plus the references/ and scripts/ folders exist under ~/.claude/skills/scientific-brainstorming/.
Restart Claude Code and ask something like "Facilitate a scientific brainstorming session on this research question."

View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT