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AI agent tools for autoresearch
Short answer: Our top pick for autoresearch: agi, with the highest AgentPick Score (67/100) among tools tagged "autoresearch". Runners-up: autocontext (64) and autoresearch (62). Compare what each does, its license and how recently it was updated below.
| # | Tool | What it does | Score | Stars | License | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | agi | The first distributed AGI system. Thousands of autonomous AI agents collaboratively train models, share experiments via P2P gossip, and push breakthro… | 67/100 | ★ 2.1k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #2 | autocontext | a recursive self-improving harness designed to help your agents (and future iterations of those agents) succeed on any task | 64/100 | ★ 1.3k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #3 | autoresearch | Claude Autoresearch Skill — Autonomous goal-directed iteration for Claude Code. Inspired by Karpathy's autoresearch. Modify → Verify → Keep/Discard → … | 62/100 | ★ 6.6k | MIT | 12 Aug 2026 |
| #4 | evo | turns your codebase into an autoresearch loop — discovers what to measure, instruments the benchmark, then runs tree search with parallel subagents. | 60/100 | ★ 1.5k | Apache-2.0 | 5 Oct 2026 |
| #5 | codex-autoresearch | A codex plugin for running optimization loops inside a codebase. It is useful when you have a measurable target and many possible changes to try: test… | 57/100 | ★ 834 | Apache-2.0 | 11 Oct 2026 |
| #6 | CORAL | Open-source autoresearch powered by autonomous coding agents. Run Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex with grading, shared knowledge, and multi-agent evo… | 56/100 | ★ 1.1k | Apache-2.0 | 8 Sept 2026 |
| #7 | scholaraio | Scholar All-In-One: A research infrastructure for AI agents | 53/100 | ★ 576 | MIT | 25 Sept 2026 |
| #8 | Arbor | A generalist autonomous research agent — runs experiments, researches, and iteratively optimizes, autonomously. | 48/100 | ★ 1.1k | Apache-2.0 | 8 Sept 2026 |
| #9 | NanoResearch | 🦞+🔬 NanoResearch: The Autonomous AI Research Assistant | 44/100 | ★ 1.3k | MIT | 9 Oct 2026 |
| #10 | skills | Reusable AI agent skills for software factories: explore ideas, write specs, implement, review, and run autonomous research. Works with Claude Code, C… | 40/100 | ★ 1.3k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
Source: each project's public GitHub repository (description, stars, license, last push). Listed tools aren't tested or ranked by AgentPick.
How to choose
- Check which models and providers it supports.
- Prefer tools that show diffs and ask before running commands.
- Look for recent commits: coding agents change fast.
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