autopilot

autopilot is a skill for Claude Code from Rockielab/rockie-claude. It costs 93 tokens per session (1,161 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A long-running mode that operates an experiment queue for days with little human involvement. It starts queued training jobs, monitors them without spending money on language-model checks during training, and alerts a person when a decision is needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run a prepared queue of machine-learning experiments, apply cooldowns after failures, monitor unusual events or budget limits, and send notifications through ntfy.
Why use it?
It lets research continue while the team is away while limiting repeated failed launches and enforcing project and session budgets.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is nohup bash .claude/scripts/autopilot_loop.sh > .claude/memory/autopilot.log 2>&1 &.

Part of the rockie-claude plugin — 29 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to run a prepared queue of machine-learning experiments, apply cooldowns after failures, monitor unusual events or budget limits, and send notifications through ntfy.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rockielab/rockie-claude
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rockielab/rockie-claude/autopilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rockie-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,161 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 $0.00093 $0.01161
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00580
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00116

Measured 11d ago against content hash 91406db92909, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autopilot 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 11d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • autopilot — 92% identical, 8 lines differ
project-harness/skills/autopilot/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/autopilot — days-long autonomous operation

This is the "just keep going while I sleep" mode. It composes the pieces you already have (queue, ZCM, journal, calibration, budget, dead-ends, [LEARN]) into a single daemon that can drive an 8×H100 project for a week without human input.

Pre-flight checklist — DO NOT skip

Before starting autopilot, you MUST:

  • Populate the queue. queue.py status shows ≥ target pending items.
  • Set a budget. .claude/budget.toml exists with project + session ceilings.
  • Have a launcher. autopilot.conf points at a LAUNCHER_CMD that takes a queue-item JSON on stdin, starts training in the background (nohup + &), and writes its PID + log paths.
  • Configure ntfy. NTFY_TOPIC is set; you've subscribed in the app. Autopilot will wake you via ntfy on anomalies, ceiling-cross, and cooldown.
  • A working dry-run gate. dry_run_gate.sh list shows sentinels for every training script the queue might reference.
  • [DEAD-END] registry is current. Any director you've already killed is in the registry — autopilot queue-refill won't re-propose it.

The daemon

nohup bash .claude/scripts/autopilot_loop.sh > .claude/memory/autopilot.log 2>&1 &

Stop:

bash .claude/scripts/autopilot_loop.sh --stop

What the loop does

loop forever:
    item = queue.py next --json        # atomic claim, $0 LLM cost
    if item is None:
        if queue_under_target: ntfy(tier=2, "queue empty")
        sleep 300
        continue
    pid = LAUNCHER_CMD < item           # launcher backgrounds the job
    zcm.sh --pid $pid --log $log        # poll, $0 LLM cost, wake on anomaly
    match zcm_exit:
        0 (clean):       leave claimed — agent will close via post-run-review
        1 (crash):       kill process, increment failures
        2 (anomaly):     kill process, increment failures
        3 (timeout):     kill process, increment failures
    if consecutive_failures >= max:
        ntfy(tier=1, "cooldown, $seconds sleep")
        sleep $seconds                   # anti-burn
        seconds = min(seconds*2, max)

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 11d ago First seen · 96 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 91406db92909

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autopilot is a skill published in the GitHub repository Rockielab/rockie-claude (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 1,161 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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