A hand-curated collection of resources for Prompt Engineering and Context Engineering β covering papers, tools, models, APIs, benchmarks, courses, and communities for working with Large Language Models.
OPRO: Large Language Models as Optimizers [2023, NeurIPS 2024] β Uses LLMs as optimizers via meta-prompts; optimized prompts outperform human-designed ones by up to 50% on BBH.
Self-hostable platform for managing AI IDE config files (.cursorrules, CLAUDE.md, copilot-instructions.md). Web UI, REST API, CLI, and federated blueprint marketplace for 30+ AI coding assistants.
Visual AI prompt builder that decomposes prompts into 12 semantic blocks (role, context, constraints, examples, etc.) and compiles them into optimized XML. Browser extension for ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini, and MCP server for Claude Code agents. Free, open-source.
MCP is an open standard developed by Anthropic (Nov 2024, donated to Linux Foundation Dec 2025) for connecting AI assistants to external data sources and tools through a standardized interface. It has 97M+ monthly SDK downloads and has been adopted by GitHub, Google, and most major AI providers.
Name
Description
Link
MCP Specification
The core protocol specification and SDKs. ~15K+ β
CLI tool (npx pawmode) that turns Claude Code into a personal assistant by generating system prompts (CLAUDE.md + SOUL.md) with personality, memory, and 38 skill routers.
Key features: Extended Thinking with tool use, Computer Use, MCP (originated here), prompt caching, Claude Code CLI, available on AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI. API Docs
Google (Gemini)
Model
Context
Price (Input/Output per 1M tokens)
Key Feature
Gemini 3 Pro Preview
1M
$2 / $12
Most intelligent Google model, deployed to 2B+ Search users
Gemini 2.5 Pro
1M
$1.25 / $10
Best for coding/agentic tasks, thinking model
Gemini 2.5 Flash / Flash-Lite
1M
$0.30/$1.50 Β· $0.10/$0.40
Price-performance leaders
Key features: Thinking (all 2.5+ models), Google Search grounding, code execution, Live API (real-time audio/video), context caching. Google AI Studio
Meta (Llama)
Model
Architecture
Context
Key Feature
Llama 4 Scout
109B MoE / 17B active
10M
Fits single H100, multimodal, open-weight
Llama 4 Maverick
400B MoE / 17B active, 128 experts
1M
Beats GPT-4o, open-weight
Llama 3.3 70B
Dense
128K
Matches Llama 3.1 405B
Available on 25+ cloud partners, Hugging Face, and inference APIs. Llama
Developed but still experimental as of 2025. Research shows fragility concerns.
Experimental
Important caveat: No detector claims 100% accuracy. Mixed human/AI text remains hardest to detect (50β70% accuracy). Adversarial robustness varies widely. The AI detection market is projected to grow from ~$2.3B (2025) to $15B by 2035.
Books
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Prompt Engineering
Title
Author(s)
Publisher
Year
Prompt Engineering for LLMs
John Berryman & Albert Ziegler
O'Reilly
2024
Prompt Engineering for Generative AI
James Phoenix & Mike Taylor
O'Reilly
2024
Prompt Engineering for LLMs
Thomas R. Caldwell
Independent
2025
LLM Application Development
Title
Author(s)
Publisher
Year
AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models
kayba-ai/recursive-improve β Recursive self-improvement framework where agents capture execution traces, analyze failure patterns, and apply targeted fixes with keep-or-revert evaluation.
vukrosic/auto-research β Docs-only control plane for an open autonomous AI research lab β file-based operating model for human direction and agent execution.
uditgoenka/autoresearch β Claude Code skill that generalizes autoresearch into a reusable loop for software, docs, security, shipping, debugging, and other measurable goals.
leo-lilinxiao/codex-autoresearch β Codex-native autoresearch skill with resume support, lessons across runs, optional parallel experiments, and mode-specific workflows.
junjunjunbong/research-loop β Autoresearch-style Agent Skill for Codex and Claude Code with a deterministic runner, plan-hash approval, isolated Git worktrees, authoritative metric evaluation, and an append-only experiment ledger.
SeeleAI/Thoth β Dashboard-first Claude Code and Codex runtime for autoresearch, with durable runs, locked work items, visible ledgers, and reviewable verdicts.
supratikpm/gemini-autoresearch β Gemini CLI skill that generalises autoresearch to any measurable goal. Gemini-native: uses Google Search grounding as a live verification source inside the loop, true headless overnight mode via --yolo --prompt, and 1M token context. Also works in Antigravity IDE via .agents/skills/.
davebcn87/pi-autoresearch β pi extension plus dashboard for persistent experiment loops, live metrics, confidence tracking, and resumable autoresearch sessions.
drivelineresearch/autoresearch-claude-code β Claude Code plugin/skill port of pi-autoresearch, with a clean experiment-loop workflow and a concrete biomechanics case study.
greyhaven-ai/autocontext β Closed-loop control plane for repeated agent improvement, with evaluation, persistent knowledge, staged validation, and optional distillation into cheaper local runtimes.
Necmttn/ax β Local retro loop for AI coding agents: captures session traces, turns repeated friction into proposals, and tracks accepted fixes as experiments.
jmilinovich/goal-md β Generalizes autoresearch into a GOAL.md pattern for repos where the agent must first construct a measurable fitness function before it can optimize.
james-s-tayler/lazy-developer β Claude Code skill that orchestrates autoresearch across a prioritized sequence of optimization goals (coverage, test speed, build speed, complexity, LOC, performance) using GOAL.md as the engine. Supports standalone and Ralph Mode multi-instance execution.
mutable-state-inc/autoresearch-at-home β Collaborative fork of upstream autoresearch that adds experiment claiming, shared best-config syncing, hypothesis exchange, and swarm-style coordination across many single-GPU agents.
zkarimi22/autoresearch-anything β Generalizes autoresearch to any measurable metric β system prompts, API performance, landing pages, test suites, config tuning, SQL queries. "If you can measure it, you can optimize it."
Entrpi/autoresearch-everywhere β Cross-platform expansion that auto-detects hardware config and starts the loop. The "glue and generalization" half of autoresearch.
ShengranHu/ADAS β Automated Design of Agentic Systems β ICLR 2025. Meta-agents that invent novel agent architectures by programming them in code.
MaximeRobeyns/self_improving_coding_agent β SICA: Self-Improving Coding Agent that edits its own codebase. ICLR 2025 Workshop paper demonstrating scaffold-level self-improvement on coding benchmarks.
metauto-ai/HGM β Huxley-GΓΆdel Machine for coding agents β applies self-improvement to SWE-bench performance via meta-level optimization.
gepa-ai/gepa β GEPA (Genetic-Pareto) β ICLR 2026 Oral. Reflective prompt evolution that outperforms RL (GRPO) on benchmarks. Optimizes any textual parameters against any metric using natural language reflection.
sentient-agi/EvoSkill β Automated skill discovery for coding agents: evolves reusable skills and prompts from failed trajectories against benchmarks, with support for Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, OpenHands, and Goose.
MrTsepa/autoevolve β GEPA-inspired autoresearch for self-play: mutate code strategies, evaluate head-to-head, rate with Elo/Bradley-Terry, branch from the Pareto front. Agent reads match traces to target mutations. Works as a Claude Code skill.
HKUDS/ClawTeam β Agent swarm intelligence for autoresearch β spawns parallel GPU research directions, distributes work across agents, aggregates results.
Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs β Comprehensive skill library including autoresearch orchestration with two-loop architecture (inner optimization + outer synthesis).
WecoAI/aideml β AIDE: Tree-search ML engineering agent that autonomously improves model performance via iterative code generation and evaluation.
weco.ai β Weco: Cloud platform for AIDE with observability, experiment tracking, and managed runs β brings the autoresearch loop into production.
Research-Agent Systems
aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw β End-to-end research pipeline that turns a topic into literature review, experiments, analysis, peer review, and paper drafts; broader than autoresearch, but clearly in the same lineage.
OpenRaiser/NanoResearch β End-to-end autonomous research engine that plans experiments, generates code, runs jobs locally or on SLURM, analyzes real results, and writes papers grounded in those outputs.
kaust-ark/ARK β ARK (Automatic Research Kit): idea + venue β paper pipeline orchestrating 6 agents β proposal analysis, literature search, Slurm experiments, LaTeX drafting, iterative peer review. Controlled via CLI, web dashboard, or Telegram.
wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep β Markdown-first research workflows for Claude Code and other agents, centered on autonomous literature review, experiments, paper iteration, and cross-model critique.
skyllwt/AutoSci β Wiki-centric full-lifecycle research platform built on Claude Code, realizing Karpathy's LLM-Wiki vision. 20+ skills cover the full loop: ingest β ideate β novelty check β experiment design / run / eval β paper writing. Research state lives in a structured knowledge wiki with an interactive graph.
Sibyl-Research-Team/AutoResearch-SibylSystem β Fully autonomous AI scientist built on Claude Code, with explicit AutoResearch lineage, multi-agent research iteration, GPU experiment execution, and a self-evolving outer loop.
eimenhmdt/autoresearcher β Early open-source package for automating scientific workflows, currently centered on literature-review generation with an ambition toward broader autonomous research.
hyperspaceai/agi β Distributed, peer-to-peer research network where autonomous agents run experiments, gossip findings, maintain CRDT leaderboards, and archive results to GitHub across multiple research domains.
Human-Agent-Society/CORAL β CORAL: Autonomous multi-agent evolution for open-ended discovery (arXiv:2604.01658). Long-running agents with shared persistent memory, asynchronous execution, and heartbeat-based interventions; SOTA on 10 math/algorithmic/systems tasks.
SakanaAI/AI-Scientist β The AI Scientist: First comprehensive system for fully automatic scientific discovery. From idea generation to paper writing with minimal human supervision.
SakanaAI/AI-Scientist-v2 β Workshop-level automated scientific discovery via agentic tree search. Removes template dependency from v1, generalizes across research domains.
AweAI-Team/AiScientist β AiScientist: long-horizon ML research lab with hierarchical orchestration and File-as-Bus coordination β workspace files act as the durable system of record. Drives autonomous paper-reproduction (PaperBench) and competition-style MLE-Bench iteration loops under fixed compute/time budgets. (arXiv 2604.13018)
HKUDS/AI-Researcher β NeurIPS 2025 paper. Full end-to-end research automation: hypothesis β experiments β manuscript β peer review. Production version at novix.science.
openags/Auto-Research β OpenAGS: Orchestrates a team of AI agents across the full research lifecycle β lit review, hypothesis generation, experiments, manuscript writing, and peer review.
SamuelSchmidgall/AgentLaboratory β End-to-end autonomous research workflow: idea β literature review β experiments β report. Supports both autonomous and co-pilot modes.
AgentRxiv β Collaborative autonomous research framework where agent laboratories share a preprint server to build on each other's work iteratively.
JinheonBaek/ResearchAgent β Iterative research idea generation over scientific literature with LLMs. Multi-agent review and feedback loops.
du-nlp-lab/MLR-Copilot β Autonomous ML research framework β generates ideas, implements experiments, analyzes results.
MASWorks/ML-Agent β Reinforcing LLM agents for autonomous ML engineering. Learns from trial and error to improve model performance.
PouriaRouzrokh/LatteReview β Low-code Python package for automated systematic literature reviews via AI-powered agents.
LitLLM/LitLLM β AI-powered literature review assistant using RAG for accurate, well-structured related-work sections in academic writing.
Agent Laboratory β Three-phase research pipeline: Literature Review β Experimentation β Report Writing, with specialized agents for each phase.
happyhappy-jun/writing-driven-autoresearch β Autoresearch-style harness that keeps a submittable paper from the first minute and drives every experiment from the claims in that draft, looping modify β measure β verify β revise. 1st place at the Ralphthon@ICML 2026 autonomous-research hackathon.
AutoResearch-Factory/Agon β End-to-end research orchestrator built on one cornerstone principle, Prompt Economy (reusable loops, not one-off prompts), plus five supporting rules; runs scientist/coder/auditor loops across 10+ disciplines, same reusable-loop lineage as autoresearch but scaled to full research programs.
Platform Ports & Hardware Forks
gianfrancopiana/openclaw-autoresearch β OpenClaw port of pi-autoresearch; autonomous experiment loop for any optimization target with statistical confidence scoring.
miolini/autoresearch-macos β Widely adopted macOS fork that adapts upstream autoresearch for Apple Silicon / MPS while preserving the original loop shape.
trevin-creator/autoresearch-mlx β MLX-native Apple Silicon port that keeps the upstream fixed-budget val_bpb loop while removing the PyTorch/CUDA dependency entirely.
jsegov/autoresearch-win-rtx β Windows-native RTX fork focused on consumer NVIDIA GPUs, with explicit VRAM floors and a practical desktop setup path.
iii-hq/n-autoresearch β Multi-GPU autoresearch infrastructure with structured experiment tracking, adaptive search strategy, crash recovery, and queryable orchestration around the classic train.py loop.
lucasgelfond/autoresearch-webgpu β Browser/WebGPU port that lets agents generate training code, run experiments in-browser, and feed results back into the loop without a Python setup.
tonitangpotato/autoresearch-engram β Fork with persistent cognitive memory β frequency-weighted retrieval of cross-session knowledge for improved experiment continuity.
Colab/Kaggle T4 port β Adapts autoresearch for free T4 GPUs (Google Colab / Kaggle) with zero cost and zero local setup. Key changes: Flash Attention 3 β PyTorch SDPA, removes H100-only kernel dependency.
ArmanJR-Lab/autoautoresearch β Jetson AGX Orin port with a director β a Go binary that acts as a "creative director" injecting novelty (arxiv papers + DeepSeek Reasoner) into the loop to escape local minima. Includes multi-experiment comparison (baseline vs director-guided) with detailed stall analysis.
Domain-Specific Adaptations
mattprusak/autoresearch-genealogy β Applies the autoresearch pattern to genealogy, using structured prompts, archive guides, source checks, and vault workflows to iteratively expand and verify family-history research.
ArchishmanSengupta/autovoiceevals β Uses adversarial callers plus keep-or-revert prompt edits to harden voice AI agents across Vapi, Smallest AI, and ElevenLabs.
chrisworsey55/atlas-gic β Applies the autoresearch keep-or-revert loop to trading agents, optimizing prompts and portfolio orchestration against rolling Sharpe ratio instead of model loss.
RightNow-AI/autokernel β Applies the autoresearch loop to GPU kernel optimization: profile bottlenecks, edit one kernel, benchmark, keep or revert, repeat.
ElliotXie/autozyme β Multi-agent framework that applies the autoresearch keep-or-revert loop to CPU-side scientific software: profile a target function, generate one optimization candidate, benchmark for speed while preserving the original outputs, keep or revert, repeat.
Agent-Analytics/autoresearch-growth β Applies autoresearch to landing-page positioning and A/B test candidates, using analytics snapshots and measured experiment results to seed subsequent rounds.
Rkcr7/autoresearch-sudoku β Enhanced autoresearch workflow where an AI agent iteratively rewrites and benchmarks a Rust sudoku solver, ultimately beating leading human-built solvers on hard benchmark sets.
jeongph/autospec β Reads natural-language business rules and autonomously builds a Spring Boot service with tests via the keep-or-revert loop. Evaluates with Gradle build + JUnit XML. 119-line skeleton to 950 lines in 5 cycles.
vlasenkoalexey/tpu_performance_autoresearch_wiki β Applies the autoresearch keep-or-revert loop to TPU model performance (MFU / tokens-per-sec) on v6e hardware: profiles each run through an XProf MCP server, makes one model-code change per experiment, and keeps or reverts against measured MFU. Pairs the loop with a Karpathy-style LLM wiki for domain knowledge and per-experiment optimization traces; includes Llama3-8B and Qwen3-8B case studies across JAX and torchax lanes.
Evaluation & Benchmarks
snap-stanford/MLAgentBench β Benchmark suite for evaluating AI agents on ML experimentation tasks. 13 tasks from CIFAR-10 to BabyLM.
OpenAI/mle-bench β OpenAI's benchmark for measuring how well AI agents perform at ML engineering.
chchenhui/mlrbench β MLR-Bench: Evaluating AI agents on open-ended ML research. 201 tasks from NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML workshops.
gersteinlab/ML-Bench β Evaluates LLMs and agents for ML tasks on repository-level code.
THUDM/AgentBench β Comprehensive benchmark for LLM-as-Agent evaluation across 8 distinct environments. ICLR 2024.
WecoAI/awesome-autoresearch β Curated list of AutoResearch use cases with verifiable traces and progress charts, organized by domain (LLM training, GPU kernels, voice agents, trading, etc.).
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