simlab-auto-research

simlab-auto-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from collinear-ai/simlab. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,862 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A recipe for repeatedly improving an AI agent's system prompt, the instructions that guide its behaviour, using SimLab task results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to optimise a system prompt for an agent evaluated on SimLab tasks.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with a test-and-measure loop: change `system-prompt.md`, run tasks, check the average reward, and try again.

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/collinear-ai/simlab/simlab-auto-research
Any agent
npx skills add collinear-ai/simlab --skill simlab-auto-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/collinear-ai/simlab

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 simlab-auto-research

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/collinear-ai/simlab/simlab-auto-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/collinear-ai/simlab/simlab-auto-research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,862 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.01862
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00931
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00372
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00186

Measured 5d ago against content hash 26a3d781424c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simlab-auto-research 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (run_experiment.sh, src/simlab_auto_research/__init__.py, src/simlab_auto_research/configurable_agent.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

cookbook/simlab-auto-research/SKILL.md · 247 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 247 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 26a3d781424c

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simlab-auto-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository collinear-ai/simlab (24 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,862 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 2026-08-30.

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