Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add aaronnat23/disp8ch --skill autonomous-researchergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaronnat23/disp8chWrote 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/skills/aaronnat23/disp8ch/autonomous-researcher)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aaronnat23/disp8ch/autonomous-researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aaronnat23/disp8ch/autonomous-researcher/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/skills/aaronnat23/disp8ch/autonomous-researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aaronnat23/disp8ch/autonomous-researcher.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 26 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 27 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 | $0.00000 | $0.00466 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00233 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00093 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00047 |
Grade A, and why
autonomous-researcher scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 7d 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.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 29 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Autonomous Researcher
End-to-end research pipeline: scoping, literature review, hypothesis formation, synthesis, empirical validation, and written output.
Research Pipeline
- Phase 1 — Scope: Decompose the research topic into 3–5 specific sub-questions before starting any search.
- Phase 2 — Literature: Search arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and web sources. Screen for relevance. Target 10–20 sources for a thorough review.
- Phase 3 — Synthesis: Cluster findings by theme. Identify consensus positions, open debates, and knowledge gaps.
- Phase 4 — Hypothesis: Propose 2–3 candidate hypotheses that address a gap. Evaluate feasibility and novelty.
- Phase 5 — Validation (optional): Use the Experiment Loop skill to empirically validate the winning hypothesis — implement, benchmark, keep/discard via git.
- Phase 6 — Output: Write a structured report with: Abstract, Background, Findings, Hypothesis, Experimental Results, Next Steps, References.
Rules
- Use the
councilnode or parallel agents to run competing hypothesis evaluations when multiple stances are plausible. - Store all intermediate findings in memory with appropriate types (fact, event, profile) so subsequent runs can build on prior work.
- Quality gates: after literature review, verify ≥5 sources found before continuing. After synthesis, verify hypothesis addresses a real gap.
- Cite every factual claim. Use inline references
[Author, Year]throughout the report body. - Produce a final
paper_draft.mdartifact saved viawrite_filetodata/workspace/reports/. - When the hypothesis involves code changes or performance optimization, combine with the Experiment Loop skill to move from theory to empirical proof.
API Sources
- arXiv:
https://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query={{topic}}&max_results=10 - Semantic Scholar:
https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/search?query={{topic}}&limit=10&fields=title,abstract,authors,year - CrossRef:
https://api.crossref.org/works?query={{topic}}&rows=10 - DuckDuckGo: use
web_searchtool for general/current web sources
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 29 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a8de55cafd76
autonomous-researcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaronnat23/disp8ch (100 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 466 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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