generating-hypotheses

What problem does it solve?

Helps researchers and teams convert a refined problem statement and prior conclusions into multiple clear, falsifiable hypotheses, preventing stalled progress and ensuring experiments focus on distinct, testable claims.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Idempotent hypothesis creation: Reads problem.md and existing hypothesis-*.md files, assigns sequential two-digit IDs, and writes new hypothesis-NN.md stubs without overwriting existing files.
• Focused, testable claims: Produces a minimum of three distinct, falsifiable hypotheses ordered from most to least promising and designed for downstream refinement and experimentation.
• Workflow integration: Skips generation when pending hypotheses exist, summarizes prior confirmed/refuted/inconclusive results, and prepares files for subsequent refining, experiment design, execution, and conclusion steps.
• Use Case: When a research problem has been refined into problem.md, run this skill to expand the experimental plan with well-scoped hypotheses that feed into experiment design and testing.

Quick Start

Generate three or more new hypothesis stubs by running the generating-hypotheses skill with the path to your problem directory, for example by supplying the path ./dark-matter.