Improve brainstorm strategies (Step 3)

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Current Brainstorm Strategies (Creative Lenses)

In Step 3, the AI launches parallel subagents, each using a fixed creative lens to generate research ideas grounded in the verified survey:

Lens	Strategy	Search focus
Combiner	Combine two distant findings into a novel approach	Search for prior attempts at this combination
Inverter	Invert a key assumption — what if the opposite is true?	Search for evidence supporting the inverted assumption
Transplanter	Apply a method from field A to problem B	Search field A for concrete methods and their results
Bottleneck-breaker	Directly attack the identified bottleneck	Search for recent tools, techniques, or compute advances that could break it

How to contribute

These four lenses are a starting point, but creative ideation can take many more forms. If you have a brainstorming strategy that consistently generates good research ideas, please share it here!

Some questions to consider:

• Are there creative thinking frameworks from your field that produce non-obvious ideas?
• Are there lenses that work well for specific types of problems (theoretical, experimental, computational)?
• Should any existing lenses be refined or split into more specific variants?
• Are there lenses inspired by established creativity methods (TRIZ, SCAMPER, lateral thinking, etc.) that would fit well here?

Please describe:

1. The lens name
2. The strategy (what does the subagent do?)
3. The search focus (what should it look for to ground the idea?)
4. An example of an idea it might generate