Autoresearch vs fabric-skills
Autoresearch is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Frad LEE. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). fabric-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by microsoft. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Copilot CLI: github/copilot-plugins). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-25. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  fabric-skills | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace fradser/dotclaude | Listed Version: 0.9.2 Forks (GitHub): 51 Stars (GitHub): 596 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Copilot CLI: github/copilot-plugins | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.3.0 Forks (GitHub): 367 Stars (GitHub): 1 281 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | Autoresearch | fabric-skills |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 596 (worse) | 1 281 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 51 (worse) | 367 (better) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs | Installs as a plugin bundle | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport | Not stated | Not stated |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 1 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 4 | 33 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/fradser/dotclaude | github.com/microsoft/skills-for-fabric |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-18 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
Autoresearch
Autonomous research loop inspired by karpathy/autoresearch — give it a plain-language goal; it infers a recommended contract, then grills each decision with you (goal measurability, artifact, evaluator, bounds) before iterating: cheap sequential rounds that escalate to a parallel GAN tournament when they plateau
fabric-skills
Complete bundle: all Microsoft Skills for Fabric for developers and consumers.
How to run each
Autoresearch As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add fradser/dotclaude
/plugin install autoresearch@frad-dotclaudefabric-skills
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: Autoresearch · What it can do: fabric-skills · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/github/copilot-plugins/blob/HEAD/.github/plugin/marketplace.json. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.