codex-autoresearch adds autonomous research loop
codex-autoresearch packages a Codex skill that repeatedly modifies a repo, verifies the result, and keeps or reverts each iteration. Inspired by Karpathy’s autoresearch loop, it adds lessons, session resume, and optional parallel worktrees for long-running, unattended refinement.
This is less a coding assistant than a control system for disciplined, metric-driven experimentation. The value is in the guardrails: it turns “let Codex keep trying” into a reproducible loop that can actually converge.
- –One atomic change per iteration keeps the search space honest and makes rollback cheap.
- –Lessons persist across runs, so the system compounds knowledge instead of starting cold every time.
- –Parallel worktrees let it fan out hypotheses without mixing state, which matters for research-y codebases.
- –Best fit is measurable cleanup work: type reduction, test coverage, lint debt, performance tuning, and similar chores.
- –The big risk is obvious too: if the metric or guard is weak, the loop can optimize the wrong thing very efficiently.
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2026-03-21
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68d ago
2026-03-21
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