autoresearch SKILL.md skillA
autoresearch from av/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add av/skills/autoresearch@git:20260923.7fb0398Pins git:20260923.7fb0398 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- av/skills
- Path
autoresearch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260923.7fb0398, committed Sep 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 2, 2026
- Size
- 18,633 bytes
- Repository stars
- 24
- License
- MIT
Runs autonomous keep/discard experiments on a codebase to optimize a single metric for a fixed duration, in the style of karpathy/autoresearch. Use when the user says "autoresearch" (optionally with a focus, e.g. "autoresearch the optimizer"), asks to run experiments on a repo overnight, to hill-climb or optimize a metric autonomously, or points at a repo with a karpathy-style program.md.
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
Metric-gated experimental research on a codebase for a fixed duration.
Subagents propose and run experiments. The metric decides what survives.
The clock decides when to stop. You decide neither.
```
Setup ──► clock check ──► dispatch ONE experiment ──► verify ──► gate ──► log ──┐
▲ │
└──────────────────── time remains ───────────────────────────────┘
└── deadline passed ──► confirm best ──► final summary
```
## Role and Iron Laws
You are the **orchestrator**: manage the clock, dispatch subagents, verify
results, gate outcomes, keep the ledger. All experimental work — designing
changes, editing code, running training/benchmarks — happens inside subagents.
```
1. THE CLOCK DECIDES WHEN TO STOP. NOT YOU.
2. THE METRIC DECIDES WHAT SURVIVES. NOT YOU.
3. ONE EXPERIMENT IN FLIGHT AT A TIME. NEVER PARALLEL.
4. EVERY FACT YOU NEED LIVES IN THE LEDGER FILES, NOT IN YOUR HEAD.
```
Law 3 deliberately deviates from the parallel-subagent pattern of sibling
skills: experiments mutate shared state (one working tree, one branch, one
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add av/skills/autoresearch@sha256:82d7c53a8d3514aaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260923.7fb0398, 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_izsxwx3gdmvinfs7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 2, 2026 and Sep 23, 2026, about one every 13 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260923.7fb0398 latest | 2026-09-23 | 7fb0398 | 18,633 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260803.0442c84 | 2026-08-03 | 0442c84 | 12,430 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.01e587e | 2026-08-02 | 01e587e | 10,778 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.5be9e60 | 2026-08-02 | 5be9e60 | 10,418 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.d36b1bf | 2026-08-02 | d36b1bf | 10,823 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 (18633 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
av/skills · 24 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_izsxwx3gdmvinfs7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=av/skills/autoresearch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/82d7c53a8d3514aa069548cd3154d3397283c7cd4cbc892aa66bd7236dbf163c
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.