Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get

Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by tangxiangru in AutoR.

804 stars25 forkson tangxiangru/AutoRAdded 2026/08/22Repository updated 2026/08/22

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Install Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get

Copy Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/tangxiangru/AutoR/tree/main/src/skills/assume-this-stage-is-the-last-one-you-get ~/.claude/skills/assume-this-stage-is-the-last-one-you-get

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/tangxiangru/AutoR.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: src/skills/assume-this-stage-is-the-last-one-you-get/SKILL.md in tangxiangru/AutoR
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/assume-this-stage-is-the-last-one-you-get
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get does

Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get advises planning each early stage of a timed research run so it leaves a valid model, score, and rerunnable script if the later stages never happen. It is used when wall-clock limits make deferred work unlikely to execute.

Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get comes from a repository tagged agent, ai, ai-scientist, auto-research and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Plan as if the experimentation stage will not happen, because usually it does not

The pipeline has a stage for running experiments and a stage for analysing them. On a wall-clocked run they are frequently theoretical.

Measured over a nineteen-task scored arm, with a four-hour cap per task:

final stage the run reached	runs
01 literature survey	6
02 hypothesis generation	3
03 study design	5
04 implementation	4
06 analysis	1

Nineteen of nineteen hit the cap. None finished the walk. Six never left the first stage; four of those six spent between 13 and 22 attempts on it. So the predictions file that got scored was, on most tasks, whatever an early stage happened to produce on the way past.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get

What else does tangxiangru publish alongside Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get?
Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tangxiangru/AutoR, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include A Deliverable Is Not an Instruction, A Value You Did Not Measure Still Has A Source and Answer The Why, Not Only The What. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get does, and is maintained by tangxiangru in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tangxiangru/AutoR page.
How does Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get ranks #1590 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Assume This Stage Is The Last One You Get against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.