idea-creator

# Research Idea Creator Generate publishable research ideas for: $ARGUMENTS ## Overview Given a broad research direction from the user, systematically generate, validate, and rank concrete research ideas. Standalone, Phase 1's landscape survey is **inline** (WebSearch — it does not invoke `/research-lit`); Phases 4-5 invoke `/novelty-check`, `/run-experiment`, and `/monitor-experiment` for validation and pilots. For the full sub-skill pipeline (`/research-lit` → idea generation → `/novelty-check` → `/research-review`), run `/idea-discovery` (Workflow 1), which orchestrates this skill. ## Constants - **PILOT_MAX_HOURS = 2** — Skip any pilot estimated to take > 2 hours per GPU. Flag as "needs manual pilot". - **PILOT_TIMEOUT_HOURS = 3** — Hard timeout: kill pilots exceeding 3 hours. Collect partial results if available. - **MAX_PILOT_IDEAS = 3** — Pilot at most 3 ideas in parallel. Additional ideas are validated on paper only. - **MAX_TOTAL_GPU_HOURS = 8** — Total GPU budget for all pilots combined. - **REVIEWER_MODEL = `gpt-5.6-sol`** — Default model for the Codex backend. Must be an OpenAI model (e.g., `gpt-5.6-sol`, `o3`, `gpt-4o`). Manual backend uses a model the user chooses, **but it must be a non-Claude model ARIS can classify** (OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Moonshot/Kimi, Qwen) — the executor is Claude, so pasting into any Claude product makes Claude judge Claude and voids the cross-model invariant (see `shared-references/reviewer-routing.md`). - **REVIEWER_BACKEND = ...