autoresearch

autoresearch is a skill for Claude Code from RobinNorberg/oh-my-copilot. It costs 24 tokens per session (821 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of autoresearch, MIT.

A repeatable improvement workflow for one software mission with a defined evaluator, experiment history, and runtime limit. It records each attempt and its results in files for later comparison.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after defining a mission and evaluator to run experiments, save evaluation results, maintain decision logs, and schedule supported reruns.
Why use it?
It makes iterative changes easier to measure and prevents an improvement loop from running without a clear success test or stopping point.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the oh-my-copilot plugin — 63 skills, 21 commands, 20 agents, 11 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it after defining a mission and evaluator to run experiments, save evaluation results, maintain decision logs, and schedule supported reruns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robinnorberg/oh-my-copilot/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 RobinNorberg/oh-my-copilot --skill autoresearch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RobinNorberg/oh-my-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oh-my-copilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 63 skills, 21 commands, 20 agents, 11 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/robinnorberg/oh-my-copilot/autoresearch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/robinnorberg/oh-my-copilot/autoresearch.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 821 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 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 5.1 $0.00024 $0.00821
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00328
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00082

Measured 8d ago against content hash e1c93bade4ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to autoresearch — 7 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.

skills/autoresearch/SKILL.md · 91 lines

What it actually says

<Use_When>

  • You already have a mission and evaluator from /deep-interview --autoresearch
  • You want persistent single-mission improvement with strict evaluation
  • You need durable experiment logs under .omg/autoresearch/
  • You want a supported path for periodic reruns via Claude Code native cron </Use_When>

<Do_Not_Use_When>

  • You need evaluator generation at runtime — use /deep-interview --autoresearch first
  • You need multiple missions orchestrated together — v1 forbids that
  • You want the deprecated omc autoresearch CLI flow — it is no longer authoritative </Do_Not_Use_When>

<Required_Artifacts> Canonical persistent storage lives under .omg/autoresearch/<mission-slug>/ and/or .omg/logs/autoresearch/<run-id>/.

Minimum required artifacts:

  • mission spec
  • evaluator script or command reference
  • per-iteration evaluation JSON
  • markdown decision logs

Recommended canonical shape:

.omg/autoresearch/<mission-slug>/
  mission.md
  evaluator.json
  runs/<run-id>/
    evaluations/
      iteration-0001.json
      iteration-0002.json
    decision-log.md

Reuse existing runtime artifacts when available rather than duplicating them unnecessarily. </Required_Artifacts>

<Cron_Integration> Claude Code native cron is a supported integration point for periodic mission enhancement. In v1, prefer documenting/configuring cron inputs over building a large scheduler UI.

If cron is used:

  • keep one mission per scheduled job
  • preserve the same mission/evaluator contract
  • append new run artifacts rather than overwriting prior experiments </Cron_Integration>

<Execution_Policy>

  • Do not hand execution back to omc autoresearch
  • Do not create multi-mission orchestration
  • Prefer reusing src/autoresearch/* runtime/schema helpers where they already match the stricter contract
  • Keep logs useful to humans, not only machines </Execution_Policy>
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 Changed · -1 lines e1c93bade4ce
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 9ec0e459cf47
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 91 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 1a9dfe4ac118

Subscribe to this mod's changes

autoresearch is a skill published in the GitHub repository RobinNorberg/oh-my-copilot (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 821 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to autoresearch, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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