Research · memo · added 3 Apr 2026
ARIS (Auto Research In Sleep)
A research note, not a framework evaluation. It carries no architecture score and is not part of the directory or the comparison table.
ARIS is a prompt-engineering framework where the LLM *is* the runtime. 5 MCP servers bridge external LLMs for cross-model review, 5 CLI tools handle arxiv/Semantic Scholar fetching + GPU watchdog monitoring, and 49+ Markdown "skill" modules define composable research workflows (with YAML frontmatter) consumed directly by Claude Code/Codex/Cursor. The core architectural insight — "the LLM doesn't need a scheduler; the LLM IS the scheduler" — is orthogonal to Forge's programmatic orchestration but surfaces several quality patterns worth stealing: cross-provider adversarial review, provider-specific parameter clamping, thread history persistence for stateless APIs, and private dotfile API key fallback.