auto-research SKILL.md skillA
auto-research from dzhng/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dzhng/skills/auto-research@git:20260925.120cae1Pins git:20260925.120cae1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dzhng/skills
- Path
skills/engineering/auto-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260925.120cae1, committed Sep 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 25, 2026
- Size
- 10,825 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,377
- License
- MIT
Run fast, progressive experiments to map tunable parameters and their effects. Use when optimizing code, prompts, configurations, or other artifacts against a goal or benchmark, or when a long research run needs a planned hypothesis queue, focused trials, and durable findings.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Auto Research Optimize **learning per unit of time**. Start with one fast, revealing task, plan competing hypotheses, test them separately, combine verified winners, then expand coverage. The durable result is a **parameter-effect map** plus the best verified artifact. An experiment is a checkpoint, not a stopping point. ## Workflow 1. **Recover the research state.** Read the objective, user feedback, project instructions, and existing research records. Reconcile the handoff with actual artifacts and running jobs; collect a pending attempt before launching another. Identify the best verified artifact (the incumbent), active task, regression set, hypothesis queue, and remaining budget. Reuse existing record locations. 2. **Clarify success before experimenting.** Recover any already agreed criteria; do not ask the user to repeat them. If the evaluator, metric, comparison baseline, or required improvement is unclear, ask focused questions and wait for answers before editing candidates or launching evaluations. Inspect existing artifacts and propose concrete options to make answering easier; …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dzhng/skills/auto-research@sha256:73da6a4e28275666The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.120cae1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2yhhximqggy4f2dc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Sep 25, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260925.120cae1 latest | 2026-09-25 | 120cae1 | 10,825 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.f3fcdd9 | 2026-09-25 | f3fcdd9 | 9,702 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10825 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
dzhng/skills · 1,377 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2yhhximqggy4f2dc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dzhng/skills/auto-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/73da6a4e28275666816dbdd37f52c7bd3324b9b90a298c061b3335604cef3dbd
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.