WorkedResearch digests
Fire off code-research questions to async agents and get reports back as PRs
Tools: Claude Code for web, OpenAI Codex Cloud, GitHub
Setup, access, approval gate, failure notes
- Setup / prompt
- Write a clear research question; agent works unattended in a dedicated research repo, one folder per experiment, with network access for dependencies.
- Access required
- A separate public (or private) research repo only
- HITL checkpoint
- Human reads each report/PR; nothing merges into real projects automatically
- Outcome & failure notes
- Produced many completed experiments (e.g. Markdown library benchmarks, WebAssembly/Pyodide work). Isolation in a throwaway repo keeps the downside small; questions must be concrete and answerable by running code.
- Evidence type
- Developer first-hand
Source: Simon Willison's Weblog · 2025-11-06 · Checked 2026-10-19