research-autogpt

Research notes about AutoGPT, a platform for building AI agents that can run workflows continuously. It describes visual workflows, triggers, reusable components, deployment, and developer tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when researching continuous agents, visual agent workflows, scheduled or webhook-triggered automation, or multi-step AI pipelines.
Why use it?
They help you decide whether AutoGPT fits an automation task and how it differs from other agent frameworks. The notes also outline its main ways of working.

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/graycodeai/starling/research-autogpt
Any agent
npx skills add GrayCodeAI/starling --skill research-autogpt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GrayCodeAI/starling

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,219 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00038 $0.02219
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01110
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00222

Measured 2d ago against content hash d690ed453d13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-autogpt 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to autogpt-agents — 13 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.

categories/ai-ml/research-autogpt/SKILL.md · 403 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 403 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AutoGPT - Autonomous AI Agent Platform

Comprehensive platform for building, deploying, and managing continuous AI agents through a visual interface or development toolkit.

When to use AutoGPT

Use AutoGPT when:

  • Building autonomous agents that run continuously
  • Creating visual workflow-based AI agents
  • Deploying agents with external triggers (webhooks, schedules)
  • Building complex multi-step automation pipelines
  • Need a no-code/low-code agent builder

Key features:

  • Visual Agent Builder: Drag-and-drop node-based workflow editor
  • Continuous Execution: Agents run persistently with triggers
  • Marketplace: Pre-built agents and blocks to share/reuse
  • Block System: Modular components for LLM, tools, integrations
  • Forge Toolkit: Developer tools for custom agent creation
  • Benchmark System: Standardized agent performance testing

Use alternatives instead:

  • LangChain/LlamaIndex: If you need more control over agent logic
  • CrewAI: For role-based multi-agent collaboration
  • OpenAI Assistants: For simple hosted agent deployments
  • Semantic Kernel: For Microsoft ecosystem integration

Quick start

Installation (Docker)

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT.git
cd AutoGPT/autogpt_platform

# Copy environment file
cp .env.example .env

# Start backend services
docker compose up -d --build

# Start frontend (in separate terminal)
cd frontend
cp .env.example .env
npm install
npm run dev

Access the platform

Architecture overview

AutoGPT has two main systems:

AutoGPT Platform (Production)

  • Visual agent builder with React frontend
  • FastAPI backend with execution engine
  • PostgreSQL + Redis + RabbitMQ infrastructure

AutoGPT Classic (Development)

  • Forge: Agent development toolkit
  • Benchmark: Performance testing framework
  • CLI: Command-line interface for development

Read the full file on GitHub · 403 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. 2d ago First seen · 403 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A d690ed453d13

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-autogpt is a skill published in the GitHub repository GrayCodeAI/starling (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,219 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 autogpt-agents, differing in 13 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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