autoresearch
by av1 month ago15Runs autonomous keep/discard experiments on a codebase to optimize a single metric for a fixed duration, in the style of karpathy/autoresearch. Use when the user says "autoresearch" (optionally with a focus, e.g. "autoresearch the optimizer"), asks to run experiments on a repo overnight, to hill-climb or optimize a metric autonomously, or points at a repo with a karpathy-style program.md.
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Open your terminal
- Mac: Press ⌘ Space, type "Terminal", press Enter
- Windows: Press Win R, type "cmd", press Enter
Paste the command above and press Enter
Use the Copy command button, then paste in your terminal (Mac: ⌘V, Windows: Ctrl V).
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"Revamped my skill catalog today. Each skill is built by datamining tens of thousands of trajectories from my agentic sessions, finding typical failure modes..."
"It's great when you can "/autoresearch" or do an unbound "/timeboxed" run against some metric. You can too, check out"
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