| name | autoconference-skill |
| description | Multi-agent research conference that spawns parallel autoresearchers with
symposium sharing, adversarial peer review, and insight synthesis.
Reads a conference.md, orchestrates N researchers in structured rounds,
and produces a synthesized result combining the best findings.
TRIGGER when: user mentions "autoconference" or "conference" with research context;
user wants multiple researchers competing or collaborating; user wants parallel
autoresearch with peer review; user mentions "conference.md"; user wants
research synthesis from multiple approaches; user wants adversarial evaluation
of research results.
DO NOT TRIGGER when: user wants a single autoresearch loop (use autoresearch-skill);
user wants a simple one-shot answer; user wants to read a single paper.
|
| allowed-tools | ["Agent","Read","Write","Edit","Bash","Glob","Grep","WebFetch","WebSearch"] |
Autoconference — Multi-Agent Research Conference
Spawn a conference of autonomous researchers that compete, collaborate, and synthesize breakthroughs.
Conference Persistence Directive
The Conference Chair is relentless. Once the conference begins:
- NEVER STOP a round prematurely. Each round runs all 4 phases to completion.
- NEVER ASK "should I continue to the next round?" Advance automatically.
- Use the full budget. If
max_rounds is 5, run 5 rounds. Stopping at round 2 wastes 60% of the exploration budget.
- The conference runs until one of these conditions is met:
- Target metric achieved (convergence)
max_rounds or max_total_iterations exhausted (budget spent — this is normal, not failure)- All researchers simultaneously stalled at Level 2+ (early synthesis)
- The user manually interrupts
- If none of these conditions are true, begin the next round immediately.
Think of max_rounds as a budget to spend, not a limit to fear.
Commands
| Command | Description | Skill Path |
|---|
/autoconference | Core conference loop — N researchers, 4-phase rounds, synthesis | skills/autoconference/SKILL.md |
/autoconference:plan | 8-step setup wizard — produces conference.md | skills/plan/SKILL.md |
/autoconference:resume | Resume interrupted conference from checkpoint | skills/resume/SKILL.md |
/autoconference:analyze | Post-conference insight analysis | skills/analyze/SKILL.md |
/autoconference:debate | Adversarial 2-researcher debate mode | skills/debate/SKILL.md |
/autoconference:survey | Systematic multi-database literature survey | skills/survey/SKILL.md |
/autoconference:ship | Convert conference results to paper-ready output | skills/ship/SKILL.md |
Dispatch Logic
- No subcommand (
/autoconference) → load skills/autoconference/SKILL.md
- With subcommand (
/autoconference:<name>) → load skills/<name>/SKILL.md
- If the target skill file does not exist yet, inform the user and fall back to the core conference protocol.
How It Works
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ CONFERENCE ROUND │
│ │
│ Phase 1: INDEPENDENT RESEARCH (parallel) │
│ ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────┐ │
│ │Researcher│ │Researcher│ │Researcher│ Each runs N │
│ │ A │ │ B │ │ C │ autoresearch │
│ │ (iter×N) │ │ (iter×N) │ │ (iter×N) │ iterations │
│ └────┬─────┘ └────┬─────┘ └────┬─────┘ │
│ │ │ │ │
│ Phase 2: POSTER SESSION (Haiku summarizer) │
│ Phase 3: PEER REVIEW (Opus adversarial critic) │
│ Phase 4: KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER (validated → shared) │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│
▼ Convergence check → next round or final synthesis
Agent Roles
| Role | Model | Count | Responsibility |
|---|
| Conference Chair | Sonnet | 1 | Orchestrator — follows the protocol end-to-end |
| Researcher | Sonnet | N | Runs autoresearch 5-stage loop within assigned partition |
| Session Chair | Haiku | 1/round | Lightweight summarizer — poster session from logs |
| Reviewer | Opus | 1/round | Adversarial critic — challenges claims, assigns verdicts |
| Synthesizer | Opus | 1 | Combines validated findings into unified synthesis |
Dependencies
- Required: Any LLM CLI with subagent support (Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Gemini CLI)
- Extends:
autoresearch-skill — each Researcher runs the autoresearch 5-stage loop
- Optional:
/worktree-dashboard, /compare-worktrees
- Python 3.8+ required only for
scripts/init_conference.py (scaffolding helper)
Relationship to Other Skills
| Skill | Relationship |
|---|
autoresearch-skill | Parent. Single-agent? Use autoresearch. Multi-agent with review? Use autoconference. |
worktree-dashboard | Complementary. Monitor researcher worktrees in real-time. |
compare-worktrees | Complementary. Cross-worktree analysis for the Reviewer. |
Backward Compatibility
For manual install without the plugin system, this file works standalone — it dispatches to the skills/ directory. If skills/ is missing, the full protocol previously lived in this file. See skills/autoconference/SKILL.md for the complete conference orchestration protocol.
