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+My auto research template features
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+- always in worktree
+- git hooks reminding and protecting files
+- explicit human,meta,agent files, explicit frozen files
+- everything is a file, with a pipeline from idea -> worktrees -> research reports
+- stronger and explicit ideation and interpreations (weak points of current agents)
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+See also
+- https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch/blob/master/program.md
+- https://github.com/NousResearch/autonovel/blob/master/program.md