idea-evaluator SKILL.md skillA
idea-evaluator from yichen-zju/claude-for-research is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add yichen-zju/claude-for-research/idea-evaluator@git:20261012.70e1643Pins git:20261012.70e1643 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- yichen-zju/claude-for-research
- Path
skills/idea-evaluator/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261012.70e1643, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 1, 2026
- Size
- 11,866 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- none declared
Evaluates a preliminary research idea against a five-dimension framework (Higher, Faster, Stronger, Cheaper, Broader) plus idea-lifecycle and student-capability matching, paradigm-shift probing, and a fatal-flaws audit. Returns a reviewer-style verdict. Use when the user has a draft research idea and asks whether it is worth pursuing, asks to 'evaluate this idea', 'score this idea', 'assess feasibility', 'novelty check', 'is this a good research direction', or before committing to a paper scope.
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
# Idea Evaluator ## Overview This skill evaluates a preliminary research idea from the combined perspective of a top-venue reviewer and an experienced advisor. It scores the idea against five improvement dimensions from the idea-generation guide (Higher, Faster, Stronger, Cheaper, Broader), matches the idea's lifecycle against the user's actual capability and available hours per week, probes whether the idea has paradigm-shift potential, flags fatal flaws, and returns one of three verdicts: Strong Accept, Accept with Revisions, or Reject and Pivot. The goal is to kill weak ideas before the student invests months, and to shape promising-but-underdeveloped ideas into stronger forms before writing begins. ## When to use this skill - The user has a draft idea and asks whether it is worth pursuing. - The user asks for novelty check, feasibility assessment, or scoring. - Before the user commits to a paper scope or starts implementation. - The user is comparing two or three candidate ideas and needs a structured trade-off. - The user suspects scope creep and wants an external check. - The user mentions 'evaluate this idea', 'score this idea', 'assess …
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How to install
mdr add yichen-zju/claude-for-research/idea-evaluator@sha256:80e33b48e7ce954fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.70e1643, 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 5 versions of this file, between Oct 1, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 3 days.
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| git:20261012.70e1643 latest | 2026-10-12 | 70e1643 | 11,866 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261010.d891607 | 2026-10-10 | d891607 | 11,374 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.af2626c | 2026-10-07 | af2626c | 11,252 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261004.b7aea95 | 2026-10-04 | b7aea95 | 10,832 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261001.fde7ef9 | 2026-10-01 | fde7ef9 | 10,003 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 (11866 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
yichen-zju/claude-for-research · 10 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xpajvavmibge6qwo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yichen-zju/claude-for-research/idea-evaluator GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/80e33b48e7ce954f45ea3e0277fd1ecf706e928ad14daa75f3f4d7fc2681d08e
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