Autoresearch

Autoresearch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from notforyou23/home23. It costs 44 tokens per session (827 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for improving an existing agent skill through repeated scoring, revision, and testing. A skill is a set of instructions that guides an agent through a task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a failure mode, score the skill across several criteria, revise its instructions, retest it, and receive recommendations.
Why use it?
It reveals where a skill performs poorly and tests whether instruction changes actually improve its results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define a failure mode, score the skill across several criteria, revise its instructions, retest it, and receive recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/notforyou23/home23/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 notforyou23/home23 --skill autoresearch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/notforyou23/home23

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
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Your own site
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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 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 827 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00044 $0.00827
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00083

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0ecf20e70dee, 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (index.js, scripts/autoresearch_loop.js, scripts/autoresearch_loop.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.

workspace/skills/autoresearch/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autoresearch

Use this skill when a skill exists but performs inconsistently and needs deliberate improvement rather than one-off fixes.

When to use

Use autoresearch for:

  • a skill that triggers inconsistently across similar asks
  • a skill whose instructions feel vague, brittle, or underspecified
  • quality work where the target is the skill itself, not just the current answer

Workflow

  1. Define the failure mode clearly.
  2. Choose a score rubric (5 dimensions, 1–5 each).
  3. Run representative prompts against the skill across N rounds.
  4. Auto-revise SKILL.md after each round (targets weakest dimension).
  5. Stop when score gain flattens (≤ 0.2 improvement).
  6. Return a scored report with per-round results and recommendations.

Score Rubric (5 dimensions)

Dimension What it measures
queryStrategy Detects zero/low results and auto-broadens or retries
qualityFiltering Filters spam, elevates high-engagement signal
resultCoverage Gets meaningful result volume per query
actionContract Returns well-formed, predictable responses
documentation SKILL.md examples and gotchas are clear and actionable

Scores: 1 (broken) → 3 (functional) → 5 (excellent).

autoresearch_loop action

{
  "action": "autoresearch_loop",
  "input": {
    "targetSkill": "x-research",
    "failureMode": "X search returns spam for health queries with no retry logic",
    "promptSet": [
      "sauna cold plunge contrast therapy",
      "infrared sauna health benefits",
      "cold plunge recovery sleep"
    ],
    "scoreRubric": {
      "queryStrategy": { "target": 4 },
      "qualityFiltering": { "target": 3 },
      "resultCoverage": { "target": 3 },
      "actionContract": { "target": 4 },
      "documentation": { "target": 3 }
    },
    "maxRounds": 3
  }
}

Output

Returns a JSON report with:

  • rounds[]: per-round scores per prompt and dimension averages
  • summary: start/final/total gain, rounds run, stopped-early flag
  • recommendations[]: dimensions still scoring < 3 after loop

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 109 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 0ecf20e70dee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Autoresearch is a skill published in the GitHub repository notforyou23/home23 (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 827 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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