autoresearch

autoresearch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hdu-ailab/EasyResearch. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinator for repeated, metric-based experiments that automatically tests changes within an agreed research plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps run bounded overnight or unattended searches that repeatedly evaluate experiments and track progress toward a defined metric.
Why use it?
It lets an authorized exploratory campaign continue without asking for routine approval while keeping its objective, metric, limits, and evidence requirements explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit It helps run bounded overnight or unattended searches that repeatedly evaluate experiments and track progress toward a defined metric.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hdu-ailab/easyresearch/autoresearch
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.

Any agent
npx skills add hdu-ailab/EasyResearch --skill autoresearch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hdu-ailab/EasyResearch

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/hdu-ailab/easyresearch/autoresearch/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hdu-ailab/easyresearch/autoresearch)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hdu-ailab/easyresearch/autoresearch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hdu-ailab/easyresearch/autoresearch/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for autoresearch

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,625 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, 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 Excessive Agency · line 19
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00053 $0.01625
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00813
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00162

Measured 10d ago against content hash d333d9e53f5f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autoresearch 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 10d 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.

src/skills/autoresearch/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autoresearch

Purpose

Turn one explicit user authorization into a sustained, metric-driven research campaign. Auto means the campaign keeps making valid experimental progress without asking for routine approval after every trial. It does not mean unbounded cost, unsafe mutation, metric hacking, or bypassing formal evidence requirements.

This Skill is orchestration-only. The Research Assistant defines and monitors the campaign, while one Experiment specialist owns all code changes, commands, metrics, rollback, and experiment artifacts. The Research Assistant must never perform those specialist actions itself.

Activation Contract

Treat an explicit auto/autoresearch/overnight/until-stopped request as approval for one exploratory campaign within an inspectable contract. Derive values from the user's request and existing project artifacts before asking anything.

The contract must name:

Field Requirement
Objective One measurable experimental question
Selection metric Primary validation metric and maximize/minimize direction
Evaluation boundary Immutable evaluator, split, preprocessing, and anti-leakage rules
Mutable scope Exact files or directories the Experiment specialist may change
Immutable scope Evaluation harness, final-test data, source evidence, and protected files
Trial command Reproducible command plus per-trial timeout
Budget Trial count, wall-clock/compute budget, or explicit until-stopped authorization
Acceptance rule Improvement threshold and simplicity/resource tie-breaker
Recovery Snapshot and rollback method limited to mutable scope
Artifacts Exact campaign, ledger, log, output, and summary paths

Ask at most one focused question only when a safety-, cost-, or decision-critical field cannot be derived. Never invent a metric or silently authorize open-ended paid compute. An explicit until-stopped request is valid only on compute the user has already authorized.

Default Artifact Contract

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 10d ago First seen · 176 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A d333d9e53f5f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

autoresearch is a skill published in the GitHub repository hdu-ailab/EasyResearch (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,625 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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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