autoresearch

autoresearch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aeonfun/aeon. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,368 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for improving an existing coding-agent skill by creating several versions, testing them against a scoring guide, and saving the best version as a pull request. A skill is a reusable set of instructions for an agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refine a skill's instructions, compare different approaches, and submit the selected version for review.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with a repeatable comparison of possible improvements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aeonfun/aeon/autoresearch
Any agent
npx skills add aeonfun/aeon --skill autoresearch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aeonfun/aeon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for autoresearch

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aeonfun/aeon/autoresearch.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aeonfun/aeon/autoresearch)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aeonfun/aeon/autoresearch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aeonfun/aeon/autoresearch.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,368 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00019 $0.01368
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00684
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00137

Measured 5d ago against content hash 84e2d35e4119, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autoresearch scanned grade A 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 5d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

There is no network sandbox — `curl` works, with **WebFetch** as the fallback for a flaky public GET. For an auth'd API, call `./secretcurl` with a `{ENV_NAME}` placeholder (the key is injected via `requires:`), never a
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/autoresearch/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

${var} — Name of the skill to evolve (e.g. token-movers). Required.

If ${var} is empty, abort with: "autoresearch requires var= set to a skill name" and exit.

Read memory/MEMORY.md for context.

Goal

Improve an existing skill by researching better approaches, generating 4 distinct variations, scoring them against a rubric, and committing the winning version as a PR.

Steps

1. Load the target skill

Read skills/${var}/SKILL.md. If the file doesn't exist, abort and notify: "Skill '${var}' not found."

Parse the skill's:

  • Purpose: what it does
  • Data sources: APIs, URLs, commands it calls
  • Output format: what it produces (article, notification, file)
  • Dependencies: env vars, tools, other files it reads

Save the original content — you'll need it for the PR diff later.

2. Research improvements

Search the web for better approaches to what this skill does:

  • Alternative or complementary APIs/data sources
  • Best practices for the skill's domain (e.g., crypto analysis, RSS aggregation, security scanning)
  • Common pitfalls or failure modes for the techniques the skill uses
  • Output formats that are more actionable or readable

Also review:

  • Recent memory/logs/ entries where this skill ran — did it produce useful output? Were there failures?
  • memory/cron-state.json — has this skill been failing?

3. Generate 4 variations

Create 4 distinct improved versions of the SKILL.md, each with a different thesis:

Variation A — Better inputs: Improve data sources. Add alternative/complementary APIs, better search queries, more reliable endpoints. Fix any broken or deprecated sources found in step 2.

Variation B — Sharper output: Improve the output format and content quality. Make notifications more actionable, articles more substantive, analysis more insightful. Reduce noise, improve signal.

Variation C — More robust: Improve reliability and edge-case handling. Add fallback logic for when APIs fail, better deduplication, graceful handling of empty data, clearer error messages.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 143 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 84e2d35e4119

Subscribe to this mod's changes

autoresearch is a skill published in the GitHub repository aeonfun/aeon (714 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,368 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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