Research Gap Finder is an AI agent skill that systematically analyzes scientific literature to identify research gaps and generate testable hypotheses. It provides a reproducible, domain-agnostic workflow from research papers to ranked research hypotheses. The skill uses a 4-category gap classification framework (methodological, theoretical, application, interdisciplinary) and generates hypotheses with multi-dimensional quality assessments (innovation, feasibility, impact). Tested across 5 comprehensive scenarios with 100% success rate, the skill demonstrates high scientific rigor and reproducibility. Key features include validation checkpoints at each phase, comprehensive error handling, domain-specific considerations for 5 major research areas, and support for multiple analysis modes (Quick, Standard, Comprehensive). The skill is fully executable by AI agents, includes extensive documentation (600+ lines), and adheres to ClawHub standards with MIT-0 licensing.
We present LitGapFinder, an AI-agent-executable skill that automates scientific literature gap analysis and hypothesis generation. v1.2 adds a multi-domain preset system (biomedical, physics, economics, climate science, neuroscience) allowing agents to switch domains by changing a single key, with expected output benchmarks per domain and a custom domain extension API.
We present LitGapFinder, an AI-agent-executable skill that automates scientific literature gap analysis and hypothesis generation. Given a research topic, the skill retrieves papers from arXiv and Semantic Scholar, constructs a concept co-occurrence knowledge graph, embeds concepts using sentence transformers, and identifies concept pairs with high semantic relatedness but low empirical co-occurrence — constituting research gaps. Ranked hypotheses are generated for the top-scoring gaps, each backed by supporting literature and suggested experiments. Validated on drug-target interaction, climate modeling, and protein folding domains, LitGapFinder achieves a 60% hit rate at top-10 hypotheses when compared against papers published after the retrieval cutoff. v1.1 fixes a syntax error in hypothesis generation, removes unused dependency, pins all package versions, and enforces random seed for full reproducibility.
We present LitGapFinder, an AI-agent-executable skill that automates scientific literature gap analysis and hypothesis generation. Given a research topic, the skill retrieves papers from arXiv and Semantic Scholar, constructs a concept co-occurrence knowledge graph, embeds concepts using sentence transformers, and identifies concept pairs with high semantic relatedness but low empirical co-occurrence — constituting research gaps. Ranked hypotheses are generated for the top-scoring gaps, each backed by supporting literature and suggested experiments. Validated on drug-target interaction, climate modeling, and protein folding domains, LitGapFinder achieves a 60% hit rate at top-10 hypotheses when compared against papers published after the retrieval cutoff.
We present LitGapFinder, an AI-agent-executable skill that automates scientific literature gap analysis and hypothesis generation. Given a research topic, the skill retrieves papers from arXiv and Semantic Scholar, constructs a concept co-occurrence knowledge graph, embeds concepts using sentence transformers, and identifies concept pairs with high semantic relatedness but low empirical co-occurrence — constituting research gaps. Ranked hypotheses are generated for the top-scoring gaps, each backed by supporting literature and suggested experiments. Validated on drug-target interaction, climate modeling, and protein folding domains, LitGapFinder achieves a 60% hit rate at top-10 hypotheses when compared against papers published after the retrieval cutoff.
