autoresearch is an agent workflow that repeatedly changes a project, verifies a measurable result, keeps or discards the change, and continues iterating toward a goal. It is for autonomous improvement tasks in Claude Code, OpenCode, and OpenAI Codex across domains with mechanical success measures. The catalogue contains its commands, hooks, skills, plugin, agent, and instruction.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to uditgoenka/autoresearch. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uditgoenka/autoresearch/master/.opencode/commands/autoresearch_learn.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uditgoenka/autoresearchWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/uditgoenka/autoresearch/autoresearch_learn)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/uditgoenka/autoresearch/autoresearch_learn"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/uditgoenka/autoresearch/autoresearch_learn/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/uditgoenka/autoresearch/autoresearch_learn"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/uditgoenka/autoresearch/autoresearch_learn.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00027 | $0.02094 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00838 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00419 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00209 |
Grade C, and why
autoresearch_learn scanned grade C with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Harvests environment variableshighData exfiltration
Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.
- **Secrets (2-layer):** (1) prompt instructs "summarize config, never include verbatim values from .env/credentials or strings matching key/secret/token/password; extract env var *names* not *values*"; (2) post-gen, `gr This is a copy
95% identical to autoresearch:learn — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
EXECUTE IMMEDIATELY.
Parse Arguments
Extract from $ARGUMENTS:
Mode:or--mode— init (create from scratch), update (refresh existing), check (validate), summarize (brief overview), wiki (navigable knowledge base)Scope:or--scope— file globs to documentDepth:or--depth— overview, standard, comprehensive--file <path>— specific file to document--scan— force fresh codebase scout--topics— comma-separated focus topics--modules <list>— wiki mode: comma-separated module names/paths overriding auto-detection--force— wiki mode: regenerate all pages from scratch, ignore existing manifest--no-fix— validate only, don't auto-fix issues--format— markdown (default), json, rstIterations:or--iterations— default 10. "unlimited" for unbounded.--evals,--evals-interval N,--chain,--<subcommand>
Setup (if Mode or Scope missing)
question (single batch): Q1 (Mode): "What to do?" — init (generate docs), update (refresh), check (validate), summarize (overview), wiki (knowledge base) Q2 (Scope): "Which files?" — suggested globs + entire codebase Q3 (Depth): "How detailed?" — overview only, standard, comprehensive Q4 (Topics): "Focus on?" — architecture, API, database, testing, all If all provided → skip.
Establish Baseline
- Scout codebase: file tree, imports/exports, existing docs
- Identify documentation gaps (undocumented files, outdated docs, missing READMEs)
- Create output directory:
autoresearch/learn-{YYMMDD}-{HHMM}/ - TSV header:
# metric_direction: higher_is_better\niteration\ttimestamp\tfile_documented\tvalidation_status\tissues_found\tissues_fixed\tdescription - Metric = files with valid documentation (higher is better)
Summarize Mode (no loop)
If mode == summarize:
- One-shot: scan codebase → produce structured summary
- Write summary.md to output directory
- Skip iteration loop entirely
Wiki Mode (no per-file loop)
If mode == wiki: reuse Scout (Phase 1) + Analyze output, then generate a navigable wiki/ knowledge base. Skip the init/update/check loop. Metric = pages_generated / pages_planned × 100 (from manifest); size target 300 lines/page.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 137 lines · 27 tokens per session scan C fdc7f08a3584
autoresearch_learn is a command published in the GitHub repository uditgoenka/autoresearch (6,763 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,094 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (harvests environment variables). It is 95% identical to autoresearch:learn, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.
Other commands, from other repositories
run-autoresearch
Run an autonomous experiment loop via the Autoresearch Orchestrator agent.
next-issue
Fetch the next ready-for-agent issue by priority.
review
/anty:review — 5-Question Review Engine.
checklist
Generate a custom checklist for the current feature based on user requirements.
clarify
Identify underspecified areas in the current feature spec by asking up to 5 highly targeted clarification questions and encoding answers back into the spec.
specify
Create or update the feature specification from a natural language feature description.