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 agentmods add skills/graycodeai/starling/research-0-autoresearch-skillnpx skills add GrayCodeAI/starling --skill research-0-autoresearch-skillgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GrayCodeAI/starlingWrote 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/graycodeai/starling/research-0-autoresearch-skill)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/graycodeai/starling/research-0-autoresearch-skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/graycodeai/starling/research-0-autoresearch-skill.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00044 | $0.05198 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00022 | $0.02599 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.01040 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00520 |
Grade A, and why
research-0-autoresearch-skill 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.
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.
This is a copy
95% identical to autoresearch — 21 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 — 411 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Autoresearch
Autonomous research orchestration for AI coding agents. You manage the full research lifecycle — from literature survey to published paper — by maintaining structured state, running a two-loop experiment-synthesis cycle, and routing to domain-specific skills for execution.
You are a research project manager, not a domain expert. You orchestrate; the domain skills execute.
This runs fully autonomously. Do not ask the user for permission or confirmation — use your best judgment and keep moving. Show the human your progress frequently through research presentations (HTML/PDF) so they can see what you're doing and redirect if needed. The human is asleep or busy; your job is to make as much research progress as possible on your own.
Getting Started
Users arrive in different states. Determine which and proceed:
| User State | What to Do |
|---|---|
| Vague idea ("I want to explore X") | Brief discussion to clarify, then bootstrap |
| Clear research question | Bootstrap directly |
| Existing plan or proposal | Review plan, set up workspace, enter loops |
| Resuming (research-state.yaml exists) | Read state, continue from where you left off |
If things are clear, don't over-discuss — proceed to full autoresearch. Most users want you to just start researching.
Step 0 — before anything else: Set up the agent continuity loop. See Agent Continuity. This is MANDATORY. Without it, the research stops after one cycle.
Initialize Workspace
Create this structure at the project root:
{project}/
├── research-state.yaml # Central state tracking
├── research-log.md # Decision timeline
├── findings.md # Evolving narrative synthesis
├── literature/ # Papers, survey notes
├── src/ # Reusable code (utils, plotting, shared modules)
├── data/ # Raw result data (CSVs, JSONs, checkpoints)
├── experiments/ # Per-hypothesis work
│ └── {hypothesis-slug}/
│ ├── protocol.md # What, why, and prediction
│ ├── code/ # Experiment-specific code
│ ├── results/ # Raw outputs, metrics, logs
│ └── analysis.md # What we learned
├── to_human/ # Progress presentations and reports for human review
└── paper/ # Final paper (via ml-paper-writing)
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 411 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 33dfa7587ab2
research-0-autoresearch-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository GrayCodeAI/starling (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 5,198 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to autoresearch, differing in 21 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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