autoresearch SKILL.md skillA
autoresearch from mxyhi/ok-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mxyhi/ok-skills/autoresearch@v2.2.2Pins v2.2.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mxyhi/ok-skills
- Path
autoresearch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v2.2.2, committed Aug 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 24, 2026
- Size
- 7,962 bytes
- Repository stars
- 500
- License
- Apache-2.0
Autonomous iteration loop: modify, verify, keep/discard against any metric.
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
# Autoresearch — Autonomous Goal-directed Iteration
## Safety Invariants (all subcommands)
- Never push, publish, or deploy without explicit user approval.
- Bounded by default. Override with `Iterations: unlimited`.
- All results logged to `autoresearch/{subcommand}-{YYMMDD}-{HHMM}/` directory.
- Chain handoff via `handoff.json`. Evals reads `*-results.tsv`.
## Dispatch (bare `$autoresearch`)
Parse the invocation in this order:
| Condition | Mode |
|---|---|
| `Metric:` or `Verify:` present | **Classic** — existing metric loop, unchanged |
| Free-form natural-language goal, no metric/verify | **Orchestrator** — see Orchestrator section |
| Nothing | **Setup wizard** — interactive config builder |
| `--classic` flag | Force Classic regardless of goal text |
| `--auto` flag | Force Orchestrator regardless of goal text |
Print a banner on every invocation: `[autoresearch] mode: classic | orchestrator | wizard`.
## Subcommands
| Command | Does | Default Iterations |
|---|---|---|
| `$autoresearch` | Iterate against a metric: modify → verify → keep/discard | 25 |
| `$autoresearch plan` | Convert a goal into validated Scope, Metric, Verify config | N/A |
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mxyhi/ok-skills/autoresearch@sha256:93ee4758dee086ebThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2.2.2, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 24, 2026 and Aug 15, 2026, about one every 21 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.2.2 latest | 2026-08-15 | 7a42862 | 7,962 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.2.1 | 2026-06-23 | 544e6ff | 7,828 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.4 | 2026-06-19 | 4f06aed | 2,281 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.3 | 2026-06-17 | d75986b | 2,168 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.0 | 2026-05-24 | ee9f00b | 2,160 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 (7962 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
mxyhi/ok-skills · 500 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_h7o4xlipkxtyrd47 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mxyhi/ok-skills/autoresearch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/93ee4758dee086eb72485deab662e50668aec4d23f0a13c8bc04b07eab356572
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.