experiment
SkillDev toolsStart a new experiment with hypothesis and success criteria
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the experiment skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by rlacombe/distillate in distillate/autoresearch/skills/experiment/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Before running the next experiment, document your plan:
- State your hypothesis — what you expect to happen and why
- Define success criteria — specific metrics and thresholds
- Describe the changes you'll make from the current baseline
After the experiment completes, append a line to .distillate/runs.jsonl:
{"$schema":"distillate/run/v1", "id":"run_NNN", "timestamp":"ISO8601", "status":"keep|discard|crash", "hypothesis":"...", "changes":"...", "hyperparameters":{...}, "results":{...}, "reasoning":"..."}
Set status to keep if results improved, discard if not, or crash on failure.
Include reasoning to explain your decision.
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- GitHub stars
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- Forks
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- Last commit
- Apr 2026
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experiment-rlacombe- Source
- github.com/rlacombe/distillate