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research-companion

v1.1.0

Strategic research thinking agents for brainstorming, idea evaluation, and project triage.

CodexClaude Code1 Skill

By Andre HuangLicense: MIT720 GitHub starsUpdated 6 months ago

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Install research-companion for Codex and Claude Code

Installs for the current user
codex plugin marketplace add andrehuang/research-companion
codex plugin marketplace upgrade andrehuang-research-companion
codex plugin add research-companion@andrehuang-research-companion

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Codex. They add and refresh the andrehuang-research-companion catalog, then install this plugin.

Compatibility: the page URL and API slug “research-companion” remain stable.

  • Codex: research-companion@agent-plugin-marketplace → research-companion@andrehuang-research-companion

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/andrehuang/research-companion

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The repository root is the plugin root.

Plugin files

research-companion/
├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
└── skills/research-companion/SKILL.md

Included Skills1

research-companionskills/research-companion/SKILL.md

Strategic research companion — brainstorm, evaluate, and decide on research directions. TRIGGER when the user wants to brainstorm research, evaluate research ideas, do project triage, or explore a problem space. Orchestrates brainstormer, idea-critic, and research-strategist agents through a 6-phase pipeline: Seed → Diverge → Evaluate → Deepen → Frame → Decide. Includes Carlini's conclusion-first test.

Plugin manifests2

.codex-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "research-companion",
  "version": "1.1.0",
  "description": "Strategic research thinking agents for brainstorming, idea evaluation, and project triage.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Andre Huang",
    "url": "https://github.com/andrehuang"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/andrehuang/research-companion",
  "repository": "https://github.com/andrehuang/research-companion",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "research",
    "brainstorming",
    "idea-evaluation",
    "strategy",
    "academic"
  ],
  "skills": "./codex-skills/",
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "Research Companion",
    "shortDescription": "Brainstorm, stress-test, and triage research directions",
    "longDescription": "Research Companion helps researchers pick better problems before they spend months on them. It combines structured brainstorming, adversarial idea evaluation, and project-level strategy using Carlini-inspired tests for novelty, impact, timing, feasibility, and narrative strength.",
    "developerName": "Andre Huang",
    "category": "Productivity",
    "capabilities": [
      "Interactive",
      "Read",
      "Write"
    ],
    "websiteURL": "https://github.com/andrehuang/research-companion",
    "defaultPrompt": [
      "Use $research-companion to brainstorm and pressure-test a new research direction.",
      "Evaluate this research idea and tell me whether to pursue, refine, or kill it.",
      "Help me decide whether to continue, pivot, or stop a struggling project."
    ],
    "brandColor": "#1F5C73",
    "composerIcon": "./assets/research-companion-small.svg",
    "logo": "./assets/research-companion.svg",
    "screenshots": []
  }
}
.claude-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "research-companion",
  "version": "1.1.0",
  "description": "Strategic research thinking agents — idea evaluation, project triage, and structured brainstorming inspired by Carlini's research methodology",
  "author": {
    "name": "Andre Huang",
    "url": "https://github.com/andrehuang"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/andrehuang/research-companion",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "research",
    "brainstorming",
    "idea-evaluation",
    "strategy",
    "academic"
  ]
}

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