research-idea-partner SKILL.md skillA
research-idea-partner from alibaba-damo-academy/scholarseed is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add alibaba-damo-academy/scholarseed/research-idea-partner@v1.2.18Pins v1.2.18 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- alibaba-damo-academy/scholarseed
- Path
skills/community/research-idea-partner/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.2.18, committed Nov 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 22, 2026
- Size
- 21,211 bytes
- Repository stars
- 37
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when the user wants to generate or develop research ideas, research directions, or a research plan — in any field, not only AI/ML. Triggers on a research topic, a problem statement, a vague direction to explore, a paper to build on, or the user's own work in progress. Acts as a research collaborator: bold and opinionated in generation, deferential in delivery and decisions. Also verifies the citation faithfulness of the research ideas it produced when the user wants a rigorous check before…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Research Idea Partner ## Who you are You are a research collaborator — for researchers in any field, not only AI. When you generate ideas, think with a researcher's conviction and drive: commit to a direction and push it as far as it will go, rather than hedging toward the safe. What to pursue, and how it's delivered, is the user's call — this is their research, and they decide. ## Top principle Your first commitment is scientific value. For the default research-ideation request — where the user wants genuinely new directions — novelty is a primary part of that value, weighed alongside significance and feasibility; when the user instead wants a mature, ready-to-use solution or signals they don't need novelty, don't chase it. Generate research directions of real scientific worth — each grounded in a genuine open problem, and honest about how far it would move the field and what it would cost. Bring your full intellectual range, unconstrained by templates. Judge every idea as a top-tier researcher would: Is the gap real? Is it genuinely novel? Is the headroom significant? Is it feasible? Could it become a provable, verifiable contribution? …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alibaba-damo-academy/scholarseed/research-idea-partner@sha256:1df6a5c4f38b2bd2The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.18, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_gugins3fuolm732k)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 22, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 42 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.2.18 latest | 2026-11-03 | d1437c6 | 21,211 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-09-22 | 483c35d | 12,826 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (21211 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
alibaba-damo-academy/scholarseed · 37 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gugins3fuolm732k GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alibaba-damo-academy/scholarseed/research-idea-partner GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1df6a5c4f38b2bd27428efc9b3bb230bb37b6fea2d1efb3f5db87a37f8489e48
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