Good Question
Use when a researcher is choosing, framing, refining, or stress-testing a research question, hypothesis, thesis topic, project idea, grant direction, paper angle, or stalled research direction.
Install
npx skills add Rimagination/good-question --skill good-questiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rimagination/good-question.git /tmp/good-question
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/good-question/. ~/.claude/skills/good-questionPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# Good Question Help a researcher turn a vague interest, literature gap, rough idea, failed project, or proposal draft into a strong scientific question. Do not merely list ideas; shape questions until they are important, tractable, falsifiable, and easy to defend to a skeptical colleague. ## Operating Principles - Prefer one sharp question over many decorative ideas. - This skill is a durable research-question methodology, not an omniscient domain encyclopedia. - Treat novelty as insufficient unless the question also matters. - Separate a topic, a problem, a hypothesis, and a project plan. - Make hidden assumptions explicit before proposing methods. - Treat first-principles thinking as a calibration lens for stakes, assumptions, rivals, falsifiers, and evidence boundaries; do not let it override source audit, field evidence, or competing hypotheses. - Ask at most one short clarifying question if the field, constraint, or existing idea is missing; otherwise proceed with stated assumptions. - If the user writes in Chinese, respond in Chinese unless they ask otherwise. - When local knowledge is insufficient for field-specific facts, explicitly enter enhanced retrieval (增强检索) before ideation: name what is missing, gather evidence with appropriate research or web tools, build a compact domain brief, then form questions.
Details
- Skill name
good-question- Repository
- Rimagination/good-question
- License
- MIT
- Repo updated
- 23 September 2026
FAQ
What does the Good Question skill do?
Use when a researcher is choosing, framing, refining, or stress-testing a research question, hypothesis, thesis topic, project idea, grant direction, paper angle, or stalled research direction.
How do I install the Good Question skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add Rimagination/good-question --skill good-question. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Good Question popular?
It lives in Rimagination/good-question, which has 312 GitHub stars and 24 forks.
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