Add skill autoresearch

[luiscantero]

Pull Request Checklist

• I have read and followed the CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines.
• I have read and followed the Guidance for submissions involving paid services.
• My contribution adds a new instruction, prompt, agent, skill, or workflow file in the correct directory.
• The file follows the required naming convention.
• The content is clearly structured and follows the example format.
• I have tested my instructions, prompt, agent, skill, or workflow with GitHub Copilot.
• I have run npm start and verified that README.md is up to date.

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Description

Autonomous iterative experimentation loop for any programming task. Guides the user through defining goals, measurable metrics, and scope constraints, then runs an autonomous loop of code changes, testing, measuring, and keeping/discarding results. Inspired by Karpathy's autoresearch.

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Type of Contribution

• New instruction file.
• New prompt file.
• New agent file.
• New plugin.
• New skill file.
• New agentic workflow.
• Update to existing instruction, prompt, agent, plugin, skill, or workflow.
• Other (please specify):

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Additional Notes

N/A

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Adds a new autoresearch skill to the repository, providing an autonomous experimentation loop workflow (baseline → edit → commit → run → measure → keep/discard) for programming tasks with measurable metrics, and registers it in the skills index.

Changes:

• Introduces skills/autoresearch/SKILL.md defining the autoresearch workflow, phases, and operating rules.
• Adds autoresearch to the skills listing in docs/README.skills.md.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

File	Description
skills/autoresearch/SKILL.md	New skill content defining the autonomous experiment loop and required setup/constraints.
docs/README.skills.md	Adds the new skill to the documented skills table for discoverability.

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