This is a full autonomy research orchestrator that runs the entire pipeline from literature review to paper publication without asking permission. It maintains a two-loop experiment and synthesis cycle, routes work to domain-specific skills, and updates you through periodic HTML or PDF reports while you're away. The core idea is that it acts as project manager, not domain expert. You either bootstrap from a vague idea, hand it a clear question, or resume from existing state. Security audits show some warnings, so review what it's doing before letting it loose on anything sensitive. It's genuinely hands-off if you trust the approach, but that autonomy cuts both ways.

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$ npx -y skills add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills --skill autoresearch --agent claude-code

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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 StateWhat to Do
Vague idea ("I want to explore X")Brief discussion to clarify, then bootstrap
Clear research questionBootstrap directly
Existing plan or proposalReview plan, set up workspace, enter loops
Resuming (research-state.yaml exists)Read state, continue from where you left off

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Repository
github.com/orchestra-research/ai-research-skills
Categories
Code Review & Quality, AI & Agent Building, Data Science & ML
First seen
Jun 3, 2026

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