autoresearch
Andrej Karpathy’s research-loop repo. Hit 50,000 GitHub stars in a single week at release — one of the fastest growth curves the wiki has tracked for an OSS agent project. The pattern itself is probably more valuable than the tool.
What it does
Give it a goal (“make this model better”, “find a higher-converting landing page”, “lower customer acquisition cost”) and it runs an experiment loop overnight. By morning you wake up to a tested set of improvements, with the loop having only kept the winners. Conceptually a “robot research intern that runs hundreds of experiments and only keeps the winners.”
Type and platform
- Type: repo (research loop pattern)
- Platforms: model-agnostic
- Status: tracked
Why it matters in the wiki
This is the closest thing the wiki has to a primary-source example of autoresearch-evals in practice. Sibling concept to loop and the Ralph loop community pattern (still deferred for a primary source). The user has flagged the pattern as more valuable than the tool itself — worth studying the loop structure even without running the repo directly.
Hands-on notes
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Sources
- The Only Claude Skills You Need in 2026 (2026-04-08)