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Applies cognitive science frameworks for creative thinking to CS and AI research ideation. Use when seeking genuinely novel research directions by leveraging combinatorial creativity, analogical reasoning, constraint manipulation, and other empirically grounded creative strategies.
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What the file says
# Creative Thinking for Research Eight empirically grounded frameworks from cognitive science, applied to computer science and AI research. Unlike ad-hoc brainstorming, each framework here is backed by decades of creativity research — from Koestler's bisociation to Kauffman's adjacent possible. They target distinct cognitive operations: combining, reformulating, analogizing, constraining, inverting, abstracting, exploring boundaries, and holding contradictions. ## When to Use This Skill - Generating genuinely novel ideas, not incremental extensions of prior work - Feeling trapped in a local optimum of thinking within a single subfield - Wanting to systematically apply creativity heuristics rather than waiting for inspiration - Preparing for a research retreat or PhD-level ideation session - Bridging between fields and seeking structural (not superficial) connections **Do NOT use this skill when**: - You need structured project-level brainstorming workflows (use `brainstorming-research-ideas`) - You have a well-defined problem and need execution help (use domain-specific skills) - You need a literature survey (use `scientific-skills:literature-review`) …
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Source
jensen-yao/agents-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main
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