Autoresearch

by uditgoenka

Autoresearch is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by uditgoenka in autoresearch.

5.8K stars445 forkson uditgoenka/autoresearchAdded 2026/08/15Repository updated 2026/08/12

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Install Autoresearch

Copy Autoresearch 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/uditgoenka/autoresearch/tree/master/.opencode/skills/autoresearch ~/.claude/skills/autoresearch

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/uditgoenka/autoresearch.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .opencode/skills/autoresearch/SKILL.md in uditgoenka/autoresearch
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/autoresearch
Collection: One of 3 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Autoresearch does

Autoresearch runs autonomous iteration loops where an agent modifies code, verifies against a metric, and keeps or discards changes. Use it for debugging, fixing errors, security audits, scenario generation, and shipping with a structured pipeline.

Autoresearch is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Autoresearch comes from a repository tagged ai, autonomous-agent, autoresearch, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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:

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

Commands Autoresearch provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/autoresearch
/container

Frequently asked about Autoresearch

What else does uditgoenka publish alongside Autoresearch?
Autoresearch is one of 3 skills that DirSkills catalogs from uditgoenka/autoresearch, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Autoresearch and Autoresearch. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Autoresearch does, and is maintained by uditgoenka in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the uditgoenka/autoresearch page.
How does Autoresearch compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Autoresearch ranks #453 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 Autoresearch against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.