THIS is the wildest open-source project I’ve seen this month.
We were all hyped about @karpathy's autoresearch project automating the experiment loop a few weeks ago.
(ICYMI → github.com/karpathy/autor…)
But a bunch of folks just took it ten steps further and automated the entire scientific method end-to-end.
It's called AutoResearchClaw, and it's fully open-source.
You pass it a single CLI command with a raw idea, and it completely takes over 🤯
The 23-stage loop they designed is insane:
✦ First, it handles the literature review.
- It searches arXiv and Semantic Scholar for real papers
- Cross-references them against DataCite and CrossRef.
- No fake papers make it through.
✦ Second, it runs the sandbox.
- It generates the code from scratch.
- If the code breaks, it self-heals.
- You don't have to step in.
✦ Finally, it writes the paper.
- It structures 5,000+ words into Introduction, Related Work, Method, and Experiments.
- Formats the math, generates the comparison charts,
- Then wraps the whole thing in official ICML or ICLR LaTeX templates.
You can set it to pause for human approval, or you can just pass the --auto-approve flag and walk away.
What it spits out at the end:
→ Full academic paper draft
→ Conference-grade .tex files
→ Verified, hallucination-free citations
→ All experiment scripts and sandbox results
This is what autonomous AI agents actually look like in 2026.