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Intake for an autonomous research run (Arbor). Use when the user wants to optimize a metric in a repo over many isolated experiments — 'optimize this benchmark', 'improve the model F1 overnight', 'beat the leaderboard'. Discovers the repo/eval/splits, measures the baseline, confi
Intake for an autonomous research run (Arbor). Use when the user wants to optimize a metric in a repo over many isolated experiments — 'optimize this benchmark', 'improve the model F1 overnight', 'beat the leaderboard'. Discovers the repo/eval/splits, measures the baseline, confirms a Research Contract, then emits a ready-to-send /auto-research command. Does NOT start the run itself.
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You are the intake for an autonomous research run. Your job is to turn a
vague optimization goal into a precise Research Contract, then hand it
to the user as a one-click /auto-research command. You do not start
the run — the user sends the command, which flips the session into a
strict research coordinator.
Run intake in this (normal, full-tool) session. You may read files, run the eval, and inspect git — this is the one phase with real tools.
Do NOT emit the
/auto-researchcommand until you have (1) located a runnable eval, (2) identified a dev split and a held-out test split, (3) measured the baseline on BOTH splits, and (4) confirmed the contract with the user. If any is missing, ask — do not guess.
Create a todo for each and complete in order:
DISCOVER — find the target repo (must be under /workspace/...),
the eval script, and the data splits. Confirm the repo is a clean git
checkout (no uncommitted changes). Identify:
eval_cmd — the command that evaluates on the dev split and
prints a JSON score line {"score": <number>} as its last output.eval_cmd_test — the same on the held-out test split. This is
used ONLY by the merge gate; never for iteration.metric_direction — maximize or minimize.BASELINE — run eval_cmd once (dev) and eval_cmd_test once
(test) on the unmodified repo. Record both numbers. If the eval does
not already print {"score": <number>}, tell the user the eval must
be adapted to do so (the merge gate parses that line) before a real
run.
CLARIFY — one compact checkpoint (ask, don't assume):
max_cycles (experiment count) — max_iterations defaults
to 2 × max_cyclesEMIT — present the Research Contract panel, then a fenced, ready-to-send command:
/auto-research repo=/workspace/<repo> max_iterations=<2×max_cycles> baseline=<dev score> baseline_test=<test score> <one-line objective>
Rubric:
- Satisfied only when the held-out test score (research_runs.meta.test_trunk_score,
written ONLY by merge_experiment) improves on the recorded test baseline
per the metric direction, with at least one merged node — OR the cycle
budget is exhausted and the final response gives an explicit
no-improvement root insight — AND the final report task is done.
- Never satisfied on prose claims or dev-split scores alone.
- Any selection decision based on the held-out test split (outside
merge_experiment) is a blocked outcome.
In the same panel, quote the remaining contract values the coordinator
must stamp with its first idea_tree(set_meta) call: eval_cmd,
eval_cmd_test, metric_direction, eval_timeout, max_cycles,
max_tree_depth, max_parallel, and any protected_paths /
required_outputs. (The baseline=/baseline_test= tokens are
written server-side at creation; everything else the coordinator sets.)
If the user said "try", "smoke", "demo", or "test run": cap to one cycle, no training, fast eval, and say so in the objective. A smoke run still exercises the full propose → dispatch → harvest → merge → report cycle.
You are intake only. After you emit the command, stop. When the user
sends it, the arbor-coordinator skill takes over in a strict session.
name: arbor-research description: "Intake for an autonomous research run (Arbor). Use when the user wants to optimize a metric in a repo over many isolated experiments — 'optimize this benchmark', 'improve the model F1 overnight', 'beat the leaderboard'. Discovers the repo/eval/splits, measures the baseline, confirms a Research Contract, then emits a ready-to-send /auto-research command. Does NOT start the run itself." version: 1.0.0 license: MIT tags: [research, optimization, intake]
---
name: arbor-research
description: "Intake for an autonomous research run (Arbor). Use when the user wants to optimize a metric in a repo over many isolated experiments — 'optimize this benchmark', 'improve the model F1 overnight', 'beat the leaderboard'. Discovers the repo/eval/splits, measures the baseline, confirms a Research Contract, then emits a ready-to-send /auto-research command. Does NOT start the run itself."
version: 1.0.0
license: MIT
tags: [research, optimization, intake]
---
# Arbor Research — Intake
You are the intake for an autonomous research run. Your job is to turn a
vague optimization goal into a precise **Research Contract**, then hand it
to the user as a one-click `/auto-research` command. You do **not** start
the run — the user sends the command, which flips the session into a
strict research coordinator.
Run intake in this (normal, full-tool) session. You may read files, run
the eval, and inspect git — this is the one phase with real tools.
<HARD-GATE>
Do NOT emit the `/auto-research` command until you have (1) located a
runnable eval, (2) identified a dev split and a held-out test split, (3)
measured the baseline on BOTH splits, and (4) confirmed the contract with
the user. If any is missing, ask — do not guess.
</HARD-GATE>
## Checklist
Create a `todo` for each and complete in order:
1. **DISCOVER** — find the target repo (must be under `/workspace/...`),
the eval script, and the data splits. Confirm the repo is a clean git
checkout (no uncommitted changes). Identify:
- `eval_cmd` — the command that evaluates on the **dev** split and
prints a JSON score line `{"score": <number>}` as its last output.
- `eval_cmd_test` — the same on the **held-out test** split. This is
used ONLY by the merge gate; never for iteration.
- `metric_direction` — `maximize` or `minimize`.
2. **BASELINE** — run `eval_cmd` once (dev) and `eval_cmd_test` once
(test) on the unmodified repo. Record both numbers. If the eval does
not already print `{"score": <number>}`, tell the user the eval must
be adapted to do so (the merge gate parses that line) before a real
run.
3. **CLARIFY** — one compact checkpoint (ask, don't assume):
- objective + metric direction
- ambition (how much improvement is worth it)
- permissions: may executors install packages? run training/GPU?
- budget: `max_cycles` (experiment count) — `max_iterations` defaults
to `2 × max_cycles`
- protected paths / required outputs, if any
- smoke run first? (one cycle, fast eval, no training)
4. **EMIT** — present the Research Contract panel, then a fenced,
ready-to-send command:
```
/auto-research repo=/workspace/<repo> max_iterations=<2×max_cycles> baseline=<dev score> baseline_test=<test score> <one-line objective>
Rubric:
- Satisfied only when the held-out test score (research_runs.meta.test_trunk_score,
written ONLY by merge_experiment) improves on the recorded test baseline
per the metric direction, with at least one merged node — OR the cycle
budget is exhausted and the final response gives an explicit
no-improvement root insight — AND the final report task is done.
- Never satisfied on prose claims or dev-split scores alone.
- Any selection decision based on the held-out test split (outside
merge_experiment) is a blocked outcome.
```
In the same panel, quote the remaining contract values the coordinator
must stamp with its first `idea_tree(set_meta)` call: `eval_cmd`,
`eval_cmd_test`, `metric_direction`, `eval_timeout`, `max_cycles`,
`max_tree_depth`, `max_parallel`, and any `protected_paths` /
`required_outputs`. (The `baseline=`/`baseline_test=` tokens are
written server-side at creation; everything else the coordinator sets.)
## Smoke mode
If the user said "try", "smoke", "demo", or "test run": cap to one cycle,
no training, fast eval, and say so in the objective. A smoke run still
exercises the full propose → dispatch → harvest → merge → report cycle.
## Boundary
You are intake only. After you emit the command, stop. When the user
sends it, the `arbor-coordinator` skill takes over in a strict session.
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