auto-research

auto-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yanmxa/cc-plugins. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,154 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A planning skill for setting up autonomous AI research experiments, following an approach associated with Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch work. It asks about the codebase, success measure, and limits, then writes a tailored program.md for an AI agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare coding experiments where an AI agent repeatedly changes code, runs a measure, and works within stated limits.
Why use it?
It turns an open-ended experiment into written instructions that an agent can follow and improve against a chosen measure. It also captures the project's constraints before iteration begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the dev plugin — 2 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yanmxa/cc-plugins/auto-research
Any agent
npx skills add yanmxa/cc-plugins --skill auto-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yanmxa/cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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 auto-research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yanmxa/cc-plugins/auto-research.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yanmxa/cc-plugins/auto-research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yanmxa/cc-plugins/auto-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yanmxa/cc-plugins/auto-research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,154 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00046 $0.01154
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00577
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00231
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00115

Measured 3d ago against content hash f1ca7734afbf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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.

plugins/dev/skills/auto-research/SKILL.md · 126 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 3d ago First seen · 126 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A f1ca7734afbf

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auto-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository yanmxa/cc-plugins (10 stars, last pushed 25d ago), with no licence file. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,154 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 2026-08-31.

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