Overview
ARIS is a research method packaged as skills: idea discovery, experiments and cross-model review loops, usable in Claude Code, Codex CLI and Cursor.
What it does
- Idea discovery workflow
- Experiment runs
- Cross-model review loops
- Also ships as a CLI and plugins
Capability source: Project documentation
Who ARIS (Auto-Research-In-Sleep) fits
ML researchers who want agents to run long research loops.
How you run it
ARIS (Auto-Research-In-Sleep) runs on infrastructure you manage.
Documented deployment options: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor.
Before you choose it
Recent Codex CLI versions changed the reviewer entry point. Read the README's compatibility notes first.
Self-hosting and deployment
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Cloud / hosted offering
- Not recorded
- Docker noted in deployment tags
- Not recorded
- Deployment tags
- Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor
- Difficulty
- Moderate
ARIS (Auto-Research-In-Sleep) questions
- What is ARIS (Auto-Research-In-Sleep)?
- Markdown-only skills for autonomous machine learning research. It is listed under Agent skills on PickOpenSource.
- Is ARIS (Auto-Research-In-Sleep) open source?
- Yes. Its source code is public on GitHub under the MIT license.
- Can you self-host ARIS (Auto-Research-In-Sleep)?
- Yes. Listed deployment options: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor.
- Is ARIS (Auto-Research-In-Sleep) free?
- Pricing is not recorded in this catalog. Check the official website for hosted plans and edition limits, and the MIT license for usage conditions. Self-hosting also requires infrastructure and maintenance.
- What are alternatives to ARIS (Auto-Research-In-Sleep)?
- Similar agent skills projects include Superpowers, Skills by Matt Pocock, and Ponytail.
- Is ARIS (Auto-Research-In-Sleep) actively maintained?
- The latest commit on GitHub was October 7, 2026, and the repository has 17k stars.
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