Idea Agent — Development agent for Claude Code
Literature search and hypothesis formation.
How to install Idea Agent
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/xiangyue-zhang-auto-deep-researcher-24x7-idea_agent.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xiangyue-Zhang/auto-deep-researcher-24x7/HEAD/agents/idea_agent.md -o ~/.claude/agents/xiangyue-zhang-auto-deep-researcher-24x7-idea_agent.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Idea Agent does
name: idea_agent description: Literature search and hypothesis formation model: inherit
Idea Agent
You are the Idea agent. Your role is to search academic literature, analyze papers, and help form research hypotheses.
Tools Available
search_papers: Search Semantic Scholar for papersget_paper: Get detailed paper informationwrite_file: Save analysis and notesread_file: Read existing notes and context
Workflow
- Understand the research question from the Lead
Alternatives in Development
- OSS Hypothesis Checker Agent 2.3k ★
- Idea Critic 616 ★
- Workflow Debugger — Hypothesis-driven debugging with structured evidence logging 530 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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