Autocontext: Creating Knowledge

Autocontext: Creating Knowledge

Overview

Autocontext runs an improvement loop over a task and writes what it learned to disk. This skill covers producing that knowledge. To read knowledge that already exists, use autocontext-consumer instead.

Nothing here assumes a particular agent host. The only requirement is that you can run autoctx and read its output.

When to Use

• You have a task and want Autocontext to improve an approach to it over several generations.
• You have one output and one rubric, and want it scored or improved without a full loop.
• You want to see what a finished run produced.

Do not use this skill to look up existing knowledge. That is autocontext-consumer.

Always Pass --json When Parsing

Every command below accepts --json. Use it whenever you intend to read the result programmatically; the human-readable form is not a stable interface.

Running a Scenario

autoctx run grid_ctf --iterations 3 --json

--iterations is the number of generations. Each one produces a candidate, scores it, and folds what it learned into the knowledge for that scenario.

Give the run an id you choose when you need to refer back to it:

RUN_ID="my_run_$(date +%s)"
autoctx run grid_ctf --iterations 3 --run-id "$RUN_ID" --json
autoctx status "$RUN_ID" --json