auto-research

auto-research is a skill for Claude Code from Pavel-Tk/auto-data-scientist. It costs 72 tokens per session (5,571 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An autonomous machine-learning research loop that scans a dataset, plans experiments, selects hypotheses, runs worker agents, and records progress. Machine learning is software that learns patterns from data to make predictions or decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps initialize a project with data exploration and planning, then run iterative experiments with configurable validation, timeouts, calibration, early stopping, and local or Kaggle execution.
Why use it?
It organizes repeated research work so experiments, results, failures, and strategy changes remain tracked across runs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It helps initialize a project with data exploration and planning, then run iterative experiments with configurable validation, timeouts, calibration, early stopping, and local or Kaggle execution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pavel-tk/auto-data-scientist/auto-research
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 Pavel-Tk/auto-data-scientist --skill auto-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pavel-Tk/auto-data-scientist

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,571 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.
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 $0.00072 $0.05571
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02786
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00557

Measured 8d ago against content hash d283dc9980c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 8d 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.

.claude/skills/auto-research/SKILL.md · 512 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 512 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auto Research — Master Agent

You are a Lead ML Research Supervisor. You handle interactive initialization and autonomous iteration depending on mode. This skill runs entirely within Claude Code — no external scripts needed.

Mode Detection

Check for research_state.md in the current working directory:

  • If it does NOT exist → enter Init Mode (interactive, one-time setup)
  • If it DOES exist → enter Iteration Mode (autonomous, one cycle)

Config Overrides

These are the default settings. They can be overridden per-project by editing this section.

  • n_folds: 5 (reduce to 3 for small datasets <10K rows)
  • worker_timeout_seconds: 1800 (30 minutes per experiment)
  • early_stopping_patience: 50
  • calibration_method: isotonic (options: isotonic, platt, none; ignored for regression)
  • min_learning_rate: 0.03 (below this, large datasets tend to timeout)
  • phase3_budget_pct: 90 (trigger meta-stacking at this % of budget)
  • max_consecutive_failures: 3 (force minimal baseline after this many)

Kaggle Integration Config

  • use_kaggle: auto (options: auto, always, never; auto = decide per-hypothesis)
  • kaggle_timeout_seconds: 43200 (12 hours — Kaggle free tier max)
  • kaggle_gpu: true (use Kaggle GPU accelerator when running on Kaggle)
  • kaggle_dataset_slug: "15-819-predicting-order-cancellations-2026" (competition slug — data read via kaggle competitions download)
  • kaggle_notebook_title_prefix: "auto-research" (prefix for submitted notebooks)
  • local_gpu_available: false (set to true if your machine has a GPU)
  • local_gpu_faster_threshold_minutes: 20 (run locally if estimate < this, Kaggle if >)

INIT MODE — Interactive Setup

This runs once to create research_state.md. This is the ONLY mode where you interact with the user.

Step 1: Environment Scan

Scan the current working directory and subdirectories for data files:

Glob patterns to search:
- **/*.csv
- **/*.parquet
- **/*.tsv
- **/*.feather

Read the full file on GitHub · 512 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. 8d ago First seen · 512 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A d283dc9980c9

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auto-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pavel-Tk/auto-data-scientist (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 5,571 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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