v0.4.0 — Human-in-the-Loop Co-Pilot System
AutoResearchClaw is no longer purely autonomous. The new HITL Co-Pilot system transforms the pipeline into a human-AI collaborative research engine.
Highlights
- 6+ Intervention Modes:
full-auto,gate-only,checkpoint,step-by-step,co-pilot,custom,express - Idea Workshop: Brainstorm and refine hypotheses collaboratively (Stages 7-8)
- Baseline Navigator: Review and customize experiment designs (Stage 9)
- Paper Co-Writer: Section-by-section collaborative drafting (Stages 16-19)
- SmartPause: Confidence-driven dynamic intervention
- ALHF Intervention Learning: Learns from your review patterns
- Claim Verification: Inline fact-checking against collected literature
- Cost Guardrails: Budget monitoring with threshold alerts
- Pipeline Branching: Fork to explore multiple research directions
- CLI Commands:
attach,status,approve,reject,guide - 3 Adapters: CLI, WebSocket, MCP
New Files
researchclaw/hitl/— 34 modules (7,500+ lines)tests/test_hitl_*.py— 9 test files (242 tests)docs/HITL_GUIDE.md— 620-line guide- 3 new builtin skills
Testing
- 2,753 tests passed, 0 failures
Full Changelog: v0.3.2...v0.4.0