prospect
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Find research possibilities by connecting tensions, absences, and neighbouring fields. Use for open-ended question generation rather than literature scoring or forced project selection.
8 other projects use a version of this.
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- cismontane-harris2642/signal-prospecting-kittheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- julienamorgan/signal-prospecting-kittheir own version, first seen Oct 25, 2026
- johnisanerd/alphaosint-prospectortheir own version, first seen Oct 20, 2026
- anthropics/knowledge-work-pluginstheir own version, first seen Oct 13, 2026
- edu6565/claude-skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 11, 2026
- youdcode/open-companytheir own version, first seen Sep 21, 2026
Other versions8 projects use a version of this.
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- anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins★ 35ksame name
- apolloio/apollo-mcp-plugin★ 25same name
- julienamorgan/signal-prospecting-kit★ 16same name
- youdcode/open-company★ 2same name
- gillesmag/skills★ 1same name
- cismontane-harris2642/signal-prospecting-kit★ 0same name
- edu6565/claude-skills★ 0same name
- johnisanerd/alphaosint-prospector★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 8 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 32
Ask where the celebrated result should stop working.
- Distinctive: line 50
Read selectively when a thread needs another perspective or a concrete technique.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 8 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Find research possibilities by connecting tensions, absences, and neighbouring fields. Use for open-ended question generation rather than literature scoring or forced project selection.
Starting point
A research question can begin where two descriptions of the world fail to fit together. Read for friction and strange correspondences, not only for a gap to claim.
Bring a question, fragment, reference, or tension. Follow whichever association becomes useful; these invitations are not a sequence to complete. Speculation should remain distinguishable from an observed fact.
Thought experiments
Cross two vocabularies
Take a mechanism from one field and a stubborn observation from another. Translate the mechanism twice: once literally, once structurally. What new question survives the translation?
Reverse the success story
Ask where the celebrated result should stop working. Imagine that boundary is the subject rather than an embarrassment. What phenomenon becomes visible there?
Follow the omitted actor
Retell a paper from the perspective of the excluded population, unmeasured resource, failed instance, or maintainer. Let the omission suggest possibilities before ranking them.
A possible turn
A scheduling paper treats setup cost as noise. Thinking of ecological succession makes setup history a state variable, suggesting path-dependent schedules. Thinking of auction markets instead suggests pricing switching costs. Either may be interesting before either is tractable.
Leave the space open
Offer a few genuinely different possibilities, a sketch, an analogy, or a sharper question when useful. Do not turn every prompt into a scored diagnostic, a completion gate, or a demand for an action plan. The human may choose a direction, combine them, or leave the question open.
Crucible can elaborate a promising mechanism. Ledger is appropriate only when the human chooses a question worth committing experimental resources to.
Optional references
Read selectively when a thread needs another perspective or a concrete technique. The notes supply possibilities, examples, and limits; none is a prerequisite or a requirement to close the exploration.
- Contrast questions without prematurely closing them
- Places where new questions can emerge
- A literature map that can generate questions
- Reading for friction and possibility
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