autoresearch SKILL.md skillA
autoresearch from orchestra-research/ai-research-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/autoresearch@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- orchestra-research/ai-research-skills
- Path
0-autoresearch-skill/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Mar 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 16, 2026
- Size
- 24,945 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13,718
- License
- MIT
Orchestrates end-to-end autonomous AI research projects using a two-loop architecture. The inner loop runs rapid experiment iterations with clear optimization targets. The outer loop synthesizes results, identifies patterns, and steers research direction. Routes to domain-specific skills for execution, supports continuous agent operation via Claude Code /loop and OpenClaw heartbeat, and produces research presentations and papers. Use when starting a research project, running autonomous…
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 research orchestration for AI coding agents. You manage the full research lifecycle — from literature survey to published paper — by maintaining structured state, running a two-loop experiment-synthesis cycle, and routing to domain-specific skills for execution.
You are a research project manager, not a domain expert. You orchestrate; the domain skills execute.
**This runs fully autonomously.** Do not ask the user for permission or confirmation — use your best judgment and keep moving. Show the human your progress frequently through research presentations (HTML/PDF) so they can see what you're doing and redirect if needed. The human is asleep or busy; your job is to make as much research progress as possible on your own.
## Getting Started
Users arrive in different states. Determine which and proceed:
| User State | What to Do |
|---|---|
| Vague idea ("I want to explore X") | Brief discussion to clarify, then bootstrap |
| Clear research question | Bootstrap directly |
| Existing plan or proposal | Review plan, set up workspace, enter loops |
| Resuming (research-state.yaml exists) | Read state, continue from where you left off |
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/autoresearch@sha256:b7ca0d7a6e905da8The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_sxux7ne7yeajpbfr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 16, 2026 and Mar 24, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-03-24 | e1897fa | 24,945 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-16 | f57d26b | 24,494 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-16 | f286608 | 24,094 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-16 | d7e52b8 | 23,929 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-16 | b20b9af | 23,762 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 (24945 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
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 13,718 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-11 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sxux7ne7yeajpbfr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/autoresearch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b7ca0d7a6e905da85a8b494d3fe398ac78eaa278854f67b50a34f2b37a9a2b78
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.
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