ResearcherSkill: Single-File Tool That Turns AI Coding Agents into Autonomous Researchers
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chrisdudek
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
ResearcherSkill is a single-file tool that transforms AI coding agents into autonomous researchers capable of designing and running experiments. The tool enables agents to formulate hypotheses, test them through parallel experiments, discard failures, and retain successful approaches - allowing for 30+ experiments to run overnight. It demonstrates this capability with an example where an agent hypothesized that parallelizing independent test suites would reduce execution time, successfully cutting test time from 94 seconds to 38 seconds.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledDrop researcher.md into Claude Code, Codex, or any agent. It will design experiments, test hypotheses, discard what fails, keep what works — 30+ experiments overnight while you sleep.
Experiment 5 — Parallelize independent test suites Branch: research/faster-tests · Parent: #3 · Type: real Hypothesis: Unit and integration suites don't share state. Running them in parallel should cut total time.
Result: 38s (was 94s baseline, 5
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