# Autoresearch:fix

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-wjgoarxiv-autoresearch-skill-fix`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [wjgoarxiv](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/wjgoarxiv)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [wjgoarxiv](https://github.com/wjgoarxiv)
- **Source:** https://github.com/wjgoarxiv/autoresearch-skill/tree/main/skills/fix

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-wjgoarxiv-autoresearch-skill-fix
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# autoresearch:fix

Iterative error-crusher loop. Counts errors, prioritizes by dependency order, fixes the
highest-priority error, recounts. Stops automatically at 0 errors. Refuses to suppress,
hide, or work around errors.

## Autonomy Directive

**You are an autonomous error-fixing agent.** Once the loop begins:

1. **NEVER STOP** to ask permission between iterations.
2. **NEVER ASK** "should I continue?" while errors remain.
3. **NEVER DECLARE DONE** until the error count is confirmed to be 0.
4. **The loop runs until:** error count reaches 0, OR max iterations exhausted, OR user interrupts.
5. **If errors remain and budget allows, begin the next iteration NOW.**

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## Anti-Pattern Blocklist

The following patterns are **strictly forbidden**. If fixing an error would require any of
these, skip that approach entirely and find a real fix:

| Pattern | Why it is forbidden |
|---------|-------------------|
| `try: ... except: pass` | Silences the error without handling it |
| `try: ... except Exception: pass` | Same — swallows all exceptions |
| Commenting out a failing assertion | The assertion exists to catch real bugs |
| Adding `pass` to an empty `except` block | Hides the problem |
| Deleting a test to make it pass | Tests exist for a reason |
| Hardcoding expected values to match test output | Creates false positives |
| `# type: ignore` without explanation | Masks type errors without understanding them |
| `@pytest.mark.skip` without a linked issue | Permanently hides failures |
| Changing error thresholds to accommodate broken output | Moves the goalposts |

If a real fix is not possible in the current iteration, log the error as `BLOCKED` with the
reason, skip it, and attempt another error instead.

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## Setup

### Step 1 — Identify the error source
Ask if not provided: "What command reveals the errors?" (e.g., `pytest`, `tsc`, `cargo build`,
`pylint`, `make`). Record as `error_command`.

### Step 2 — Run initial count
Execute `error_command`. Parse the output to count distinct errors.
Record as `errors_before` for iteration 1.

### Step 3 — Set budget
Default `max_iterations`: 20. User may override.

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## Core Loop

```
iteration = 1
while errors > 0 and iteration  max_iterations` → append `status: budget_exhausted` → report remaining errors → done.
3. All remaining errors are `BLOCKED` → report blockers with reasons → done.
4. User manually interrupts → flush current state → done.

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## Edge Cases

| Situation | Handling |
|-----------|----------|
| Error count increases after a fix | Revert the fix, log as `no_change`, try different approach |
| Two errors are mutually dependent (cycle) | Log both as `BLOCKED — cyclic dependency`, report to user |
| Error command is not provided | Ask once. Refuse to guess. |
| Error command times out | Wrap with `timeout 5m`. Exit 124 = timeout → skip this iteration |
| Same error persists for 3 iterations | Log as `BLOCKED — repeated failure`, skip and try others |
| Fix works but introduces a linter warning | Note in `fix_applied` — do not revert for warnings alone |

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [wjgoarxiv](https://github.com/wjgoarxiv)
- **Source:** [wjgoarxiv/autoresearch-skill](https://github.com/wjgoarxiv/autoresearch-skill)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-wjgoarxiv-autoresearch-skill-fix
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/wjgoarxiv
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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