research-idea-generator SKILL.md skillA
research-idea-generator from agentic-assets/corbis-literature-starter-kit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add agentic-assets/corbis-literature-starter-kit/research-idea-generator@git:20260925.4ba04d6Pins git:20260925.4ba04d6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- agentic-assets/corbis-literature-starter-kit
- Path
.agents/skills/research-idea-generator/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260925.4ba04d6, committed Sep 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 3, 2026
- Size
- 17,684 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- MIT
Generate novel research ideas in finance and real estate using structured heuristic lenses with internal rejection filtering. Produces a curated Idea Menu of survivors, not a brainstorming list.
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 Generator Generate a broad set of candidate research ideas, kill the weak ones internally, and present only the survivors. This skill is a generator with a built-in filter. The user sees 10 ranked ideas; the model generates 25-30 and discards the rest. ## The vector-space principle A good research idea is an arrow from the current literature toward reality. The larger the gap between what economists assume and how the world actually works, the more impactful the idea. Three idea-source strategies, ranked by effectiveness: 1. **Starting from practitioner reality** (strongest): Real-world observations reveal where reality diverges from what economists assume. These observations mark where reality is, letting you draw the arrow from literature to reality. 2. **Starting from a cool dataset** (risky): A dataset generates many possible directions but no "hook" connecting to a specific literature-reality gap. Without a question, tinkering with data is unproductive. A dataset is a tool, not an idea. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add agentic-assets/corbis-literature-starter-kit/research-idea-generator@sha256:25e258d5a0e8ba29The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.4ba04d6, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Apr 3, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 58 days.
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| git:20260925.4ba04d6 latest | 2026-09-25 | 4ba04d6 | 17,684 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.a3208eb | 2026-09-25 | a3208eb | 17,590 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260415.fc9a399 | 2026-04-15 | fc9a399 | 17,502 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260403.e76a795 | 2026-04-03 | e76a795 | 15,320 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
agentic-assets/corbis-literature-starter-kit · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-25 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_o5nd5nqlj3wd2gpz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=agentic-assets/corbis-literature-starter-kit/research-idea-generator GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/25e258d5a0e8ba29ea941e3f140df0d530e249456fb04ea732fb6c59f0c12896
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