Parallel Autoresearch Engine

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Run the Parallel Autoresearch Engine — massively parallel SKILL.md optimization. Generates 10+ SKILL.md variants per generation, tests each with programmatic harness (no browser needed), scores with triple-run averaging, and iterates autonomously. Use when asked to run autoresearch, improve SKILL.md at scale, or start parallel autoresearch.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Parallel Autoresearch Engine skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by popmechanic/vibesos in vibes-desktop/build/stable-macos-arm64/VibesOS.app/Contents/Resources/vibes-plugin/skills/autoresearch/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Plan mode: This skill is ONE plan step: "Invoke /vibes:autoresearch". Do not decompose.

Prerequisites Check

VIBES_ROOT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(dirname "$(dirname "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}")")}"
echo "Checking autoresearch prerequisites..."
test -f "$VIBES_ROOT/scripts/eval-ssr-check.ts" && echo "✓ Tier 1.5 SSR check" || echo "✗ Missing eval-ssr-check.ts"
test -f "$VIBES_ROOT/scripts/eval-harness.ts" && echo "✓ Tier 2 harness" || echo "✗ Missing eval-harness.ts"
test -f "$VIBES_ROOT/scripts/eval-parallel.ts" && echo "✓ Orchestrator" || echo "✗ Missing eval-parallel.ts"
test -f "$VIBES_ROOT/scripts/eval-scoring.ts" && echo "✓ Scoring" || echo "✗ Missing eval-scoring.ts"
test -f "$VIBES_ROOT/eval/config.md" && echo "✓ Config" || echo "✗ Missing eval/config.md"
test -f "$VIBES_ROOT/eval/napkin.md" && echo "✓ Napkin" || echo "✗ Missing eval/napkin.md"
ls "$VIBES_ROOT/eval/specs/"*.md 2>/dev/null | wc -l | xargs -I{} echo "✓ {} eval specs found"
cd "$VIBES_ROOT/scripts" && bun -e "import React from 'react'; console.log('✓ React available')" 2>/dev/null || echo "✗ React not installed"

If any prerequisite is missing, stop and inform the user.

Running

Option 1: Full Autonomous Run (Recommended)

Dispatch the autoresearch orchestrator agent (.claude/agents/autoresearch-orchestrator.md) with context from eval/config.md, eval/napkin.md, and eval/scoreboard.md.

Pass any CLI arguments from the user (e.g., --variants=5 --generations=10).

Option 2: Single Eval Pipeline Test

VIBES_ROOT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(dirname "$(dirname "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}")")}"
bun "$VIBES_ROOT/scripts/eval-parallel.ts" --mode=eval-only <app.jsx> <spec.md>

Option 3: Score Existing Generation

VIBES_ROOT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(dirname "$(dirname "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}")")}"
bun "$VIBES_ROOT/scripts/eval-scoring.ts" "$VIBES_ROOT/eval/results/gen-N/"

What It Does

Each generation:

  1. Mutate: N independent SKILL.md variants (fix-targeted, structural, adversarial, etc.)
  2. Generate: Each variant × each prompt × 3 runs
  3. Evaluate: Tier 1 (static) → Tier 1.5 (SSR) → Tier 2 (data model) — all programmatic
  4. Score: Triple-run averaging with consistency penalty; fitness = mean - 0.5×stddev
  5. Select: Best variant replaces current SKILL.md; git commit on improvement
  6. Repeat: Until plateau (3 gens), max generations, or score oscillation

Monitoring

  • eval/results/gen-N/summary.json — per-generation results
  • eval/results/summaries.json — cumulative history
  • eval/scoreboard.md — human-readable scoreboard
  • eval/napkin.md — failure log (grows monotonically)

Final Report

VIBES_ROOT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(dirname "$(dirname "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}")")}"
bun "$VIBES_ROOT/scripts/eval-report.ts" "$VIBES_ROOT/eval/results/summaries.json"

Signals

GitHub stars
133
Forks
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Last commit
Jul 2026
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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
autoresearch-popmechanic
Source
github.com/popmechanic/vibesos