Autoresearch

Autonomous Goal-directed Iteration. Apply Karpathy's autoresearch principles to ANY task. Loops autonomously — modify, verify, keep/discard, repeat. Supports optional loop count via Claude Code's /loop command. Invoking /autoresearch <free-form goal> builds a real-data benchmark harness, captures a baseline, and iterates with a regression gate until the goal is hit.

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add Muminur/autoresearch-skill-Andrej-Karpathy --skill autoresearch

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Muminur/autoresearch-skill-Andrej-Karpathy.git /tmp/autoresearch-skill-Andrej-Karpathy
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/autoresearch-skill-Andrej-Karpathy/. ~/.claude/skills/autoresearch

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Claude Autoresearch — Autonomous Goal-directed Iteration

Inspired by [Karpathy's autoresearch](https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch). Applies constraint-driven autonomous iteration to ANY work — not just ML research.

**Core idea:** You are an autonomous agent. Modify → Verify → Keep/Discard → Repeat.

## Subcommands

| Subcommand | Purpose |
|------------|---------|
| `/autoresearch <goal>` | **Default path** — parse free-form goal, build harness, capture baseline, loop until goal met |
| `/autoresearch` | Run the autonomous loop (default) |
| `/autoresearch:plan` | Interactive wizard to build Scope, Metric, Direction & Verify from a Goal |
| `/autoresearch:security` | Autonomous security audit: STRIDE threat model + OWASP Top 10 + red-team (4 adversarial personas) |

### Default Path: /autoresearch <free-form goal>

When the user invokes `/autoresearch <goal>` with any free-form string after the command, parse the goal into seven slots, print the parsed-slot dump back for user visibility, then run the harness protocol in `references/benchmark-harness.md` before entering the loop.

**Goal-parsing rubric:**

| Slot | Extraction rule | Fallback |
|------|-----------------|----------|
| metric | First measurable noun (`latency`, `reliability`, `coverage`, `flakiness`, `bundle size`, `p95`, `accuracy`, `error-rate`, `LOC`, `build time`) | Ask user (1 sentence) |

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Details

Skill name: autoresearch
Repository: Muminur/autoresearch-skill-Andrej-Karpathy
License: MIT
Repo updated: 19 April 2026

FAQ

What does the Autoresearch skill do?

How do I install the Autoresearch skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add Muminur/autoresearch-skill-Andrej-Karpathy --skill autoresearch. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Autoresearch popular?

It lives in Muminur/autoresearch-skill-Andrej-Karpathy, which has 20 GitHub stars and 2 forks.

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