idea-evaluate
OfficialStress-test research ideas for long-term impact.
System Documentation
What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps you evaluate whether a research idea has the novelty and long-term impact potential needed to convince top computer-architecture venues, before you spend months building toward a likely dead end.
Core Features & Use Cases
- IEEE Micro Top Picks-style critique: Produces a reviewer-style narrative assessment focused on long-term impact rather than incremental polish.
- Novelty and impact stress-testing: Frames the strongest impact case, then probes it for durability, influence pathway clarity, and evidence-readiness.
- Adversarial counter-read: Includes a good-faith strongest-arguments-against section plus what the author would defend.
- Actionable strengthening moves: Ends with prioritized, concrete ways to improve the idea (including sharpening the impact argument).
What comes out / when to use it
Use it when you want to sanity-check “is this any good,” “is this novel,” “would this be Top Picks,” or when you need a critique of an idea, abstract, proposal, or even a one-sentence direction—especially for computer architecture and Top-Picks-eligible adjacent venues.
Quick Start
Ask the AI to evaluate the following research idea and return the Top Picks lens narrative critique with a verdict and concrete moves to strengthen it.
Dependency Matrix
Required Modules
None requiredComponents
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Please help me install this Skill: Name: idea-evaluate Download link: https://github.com/UnaryLab/ai-for-research/archive/main.zip#idea-evaluate Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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