🔬 Awesome Autoresearch

A curated, high-signal index of autonomous improvement loops, research agents, and descendants inspired by karpathy/autoresearch.

Contents

• 🛠️ General-purpose descendants
• 🔬 Research-agent systems
• 💻 Platform ports and hardware forks
• 🎯 Domain-specific adaptations
• 📊 Evaluation & benchmarks
• 📈 Notable use cases and writeups
• 📚 Related resources
• 📄 License

🛠️ General-purpose descendants

• kayba-ai/recursive-improve - Recursive self-improvement framework where agents capture execution traces, analyze failure patterns, and apply targeted fixes with keep-or-revert evaluation.
• vukrosic/auto-research - Docs-only control plane for an open autonomous AI research lab — file-based operating model for human direction and agent execution.
• uditgoenka/autoresearch - Claude Code skill that generalizes autoresearch into a reusable loop for software, docs, security, shipping, debugging, and other measurable goals.
• leo-lilinxiao/codex-autoresearch - Codex-native autoresearch skill with resume support, lessons across runs, optional parallel experiments, and mode-specific workflows.
• SeeleAI/Thoth - Dashboard-first Claude Code and Codex runtime for autoresearch, with durable runs, locked work items, visible ledgers, and reviewable verdicts.
• supratikpm/gemini-autoresearch - Gemini CLI skill that generalises autoresearch to any measurable goal. Gemini-native: uses Google Search grounding as a live verification source inside the loop, true headless overnight mode via --yolo --prompt, and 1M token context. Also works in Antigravity IDE via .agents/skills/.
• davebcn87/pi-autoresearch - pi extension plus dashboard for persistent experiment loops, live metrics, confidence tracking, and resumable autoresearch sessions.
• drivelineresearch/autoresearch-claude-code - Claude Code plugin/skill port of , with a clean experiment-loop workflow and a concrete biomechanics case study.

🔬 Research-agent systems

• aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw - End-to-end research pipeline that turns a topic into literature review, experiments, analysis, peer review, and paper drafts; broader than autoresearch, but clearly in the same lineage.
• OpenRaiser/NanoResearch - End-to-end autonomous research engine that plans experiments, generates code, runs jobs locally or on SLURM, analyzes real results, and writes papers grounded in those outputs.
• kaust-ark/ARK - ARK (Automatic Research Kit): idea + venue → paper pipeline orchestrating 6 agents — proposal analysis, literature search, Slurm experiments, LaTeX drafting, iterative peer review. Controlled via CLI, web dashboard, or Telegram.
• wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep - Markdown-first research workflows for Claude Code and other agents, centered on autonomous literature review, experiments, paper iteration, and cross-model critique.
• skyllwt/AutoSci - Wiki-centric full-lifecycle research platform built on Claude Code, realizing Karpathy's LLM-Wiki vision. 20+ skills cover the full loop: ingest → ideate → novelty check → experiment design / run / eval → paper writing. Research state lives in a structured knowledge wiki with an interactive graph.
• Sibyl-Research-Team/AutoResearch-SibylSystem - Fully autonomous AI scientist built on Claude Code, with explicit AutoResearch lineage, multi-agent research iteration, GPU experiment execution, and a self-evolving outer loop.
• eimenhmdt/autoresearcher - Early open-source package for automating scientific workflows, currently centered on literature-review generation with an ambition toward broader