Autonomous Research Labs AI Agents

AI systems that autonomously conduct iterative experiments, optimize code/parameters, and improve models through self-directed research loops. Does NOT include general agent frameworks, manual experiment tracking, or single-iteration optimization tools.

There are 36 autonomous research labs agents tracked. 1 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is alvinunreal/awesome-autoresearch at 59/100 with 876 stars. 1 of the top 10 are actively maintained.

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# Agent Score Tier
1 alvinunreal/awesome-autoresearch

A curated list of autonomous improvement loops, research agents, and...

59
Established
2 WecoAI/awesome-autoresearch

Curated list of AutoResearch use cases with optimization traces and open...

47
Emerging
3 krzysztofdudek/ResearcherSkill

One file. Your AI agent becomes a scientist. 30+ experiments while you sleep.

45
Emerging
4 OpenRaiser/NanoResearch

🦞+🔬: NanoResearch: The Autonomous AI Research Assistant

42
Emerging
5 yasintoy/crowdmind

Validate ideas with AI personas + Reddit/HN/GitHub research. Optimize loop...

40
Emerging
6 Sibyl-Research-Team/AutoResearch-SibylSystem

Fully Autonomous AI Research System with Self-Evolution, built natively on...

39
Emerging
7 mitdbg/Carnot

Optimized System for Deep Research

38
Emerging
8 jimezsa/opencolab

🐙 Accelerating Scientific Discovery — Turn one researcher into an autonomous...

38
Emerging
9 Just-Curieous/Curie

❓Curie: Automated and Rigorous Scientific Experimentation with AI Agents

35
Emerging
10 InternScience/ResearchClawBench

ResearchClawBench: Evaluating AI Agents for Automated Research from...

28
Experimental
11 proyecto26/autoresearch-ai-plugin

A Claude Code plugin for Autoresearch with AI to improve anything!

26
Experimental
12 Yuan-ManX/autolab

AutoLab — Autonomous AI Research Lab

24
Experimental
13 Yuan-ManX/IRPG

IRPG (Infinite Research & Play Ground) — Autonomous AI Research Lab. ♾️ 🔬

24
Experimental
14 Negusyellowfever875/autoresearch-mlx

Port Apple Silicon support for Karpathy’s autoresearch to run fixed-time...

22
Experimental
15 Rkcr7/autoresearch-guide

The complete guide to Karpathy's autoresearch pattern — 3,000+ lines...

22
Experimental
16 Rkcr7/autoresearch-sudoku

AI agent (Claude Code) autonomously built the fastest sudoku solver on 4/6...

22
Experimental
17 OthmanAdi/researchclaw-skill

Turn your coding agent into a one-command autonomous research paper...

22
Experimental
18 zircote/autoresearch

Autonomous skill improvement loop for Claude Code plugins — inspired by...

22
Experimental
19 TECHKNOWMAD-LABS/cortex-research-suite

AI Research Operating System — 27 self-evolving skills with genetic...

22
Experimental
20 Her-xanadu/opencode-auto-research

Governed autonomous experimentation framework with a local innovation brain...

22
Experimental
21 AlexThePro939yt/scientific-validation-hub

🔬 Enhance scientific rigor with our modular tools for validation in AI and...

22
Experimental
22 benrio0923/automl-research

Autonomous ML research — AI agents optimize classification and regression models

22
Experimental
23 santu63/freephdlabor

🔬 Automate your scientific research process from hypothesis to publication...

22
Experimental
24 lhy0718/AutoLabOS

Slash-first TUI and local web ops UI for AI-agent-driven research...

22
Experimental
25 zack-dev-cm/antirot

Harness engineering for research agents. Catch unsupported claims, citation...

22
Experimental
26 maabarium/core

Run your own research lab that never sleeps

22
Experimental
27 techygarry/autoresearch

Autonomous experiment loops for Claude Code. Let AI run 100 experiments...

22
Experimental
28 HenryCai11/autoresearch-wrapper

"Autoresearch Anything using /autoresearch-wrapper"

16
Experimental
29 leagueofdrazn/ark

An AI research partner that figures out what to measure and how to test it....

16
Experimental
30 vibhu1233/autoresearch

Enable autonomous AI agents to optimize LLM training code through iterative...

14
Experimental
31 daniellaah/ComiRec-with-Autoresearch

Built an AI-agent-based experimentation workflow inspired by Karpathy’s...

14
Experimental
32 salexandr0s/autoresearch_codex

Repo-oriented Codex port of Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch with real...

14
Experimental
33 maddygoround/autolab

An autonomous research loop for any frontend project that continuously...

14
Experimental
34 domini7879/autoresearch-agents

Optimize AI agents autonomously by iterating code changes and evals to...

14
Experimental
35 Ethanp6729/autoresearch

Automate Claude Code optimization using constraints, metrics, and autonomous...

14
Experimental
36 anis-marrouchi/autoresearch-kaggle

Adapting karpathy/autoresearch for Kaggle competitions with remote GPU...

14
Experimental