Autoresearch

Use the parent for research decisions and Codex handoff workers for experiment execution. Measure consistently, retain only verified improvements, and stop on explicit resource or convergence limits.

Orchestration Contract

Start a new autoresearch session in Plan mode. Also require Plan mode before materially changing an approved session's objective, primary metric or direction, benchmark or correctness commands, write scope, or hard resource, cost, regression, or convergence limits. If Plan mode is required but inactive, ask the user to switch and stop. An unchanged approved contract may resume and receive new hypothesis batches outside Plan mode.

Always invoke $codex-handoff for implementation. Never fall back to direct parent implementation or another handoff mechanism. Follow its host selection, plan manifest, team sizing, validation ownership, reconciliation, failure, and completion contracts.