idea-quality Skill

Source

• Creator: microsoft
• Repository: microsoft/ResearchStudio
• Skill file: ResearchStudio-Idea/evaluation/idea_quality/SKILL.md

What it does

Score the QUALITY of a research idea at the idea stage — given a Markdown file with Title / Motivation / Method sections (no experiments needed), produce a per-axis quality assessment with cited evidence and an overall 0–100 score plus a verdict; or, given two such idea files, a blind head-to-head comparison. TRIGGER w

Skill instructions

Idea Quality Judge how strong a research idea is at the idea stage — before any experiments exist — and return a quality score with reasons a reviewer would recognize. This skill is self-contained: it judges from first principles on the three axes below. It consults no external corpus, dataset, or other skill, so its judgment is reproducible from the idea text alone. Input: an idea Markdown file The idea is a .md file with three sections. Read the file, then map each section to what it feeds: markdown Title <≤ ~15 words: the idea's handle Motivation <the bottleneck / gap the idea attacks, why it matters, and why it is still open Method <the proposed contribution as concrete numbered steps - Title → the handle. - Motivation → feeds Axis A (is the problem worth attacking) and gives Axis C the "problem" half. - Method → feeds Axis B (is the method good) and gives Axis C the "method" half. If a section is missing or thin, infer the most reasonable reading from the rest and note the assumpt