autoresearch

Source

• Source kind: github-repository
• URL: https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
• Discovery source: https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
• License: NOASSERTION
• Distribution policy: public-summary-local-archive-only
• Public mirror status: summary-only
• Content hash: 1d9c05983170017a9ae954ee294b5bb78c9f4359835aa06bbb44e70bf236aee9
• First seen: 2026-05-15
• Last changed: 2026-05-15

Classification

• Primary category: Research automation / agentic science
• Corpus source note: 2026-05-15-karpathy-public-corpus
• Project taxonomy: karpathy-project-taxonomy
• Idea map: karpathy-idea-map
• Topic hub: karpathy-public-work

Summary

autoresearch !$1 One day, frontier AI research used to be done by meat computers in between eating, sleeping, having other fun, and synchronizing once in a while using sound wave interconnect in the ritual of “group meeting”. That era is long gone. Research is now entirely the domain of autonomous swarms of AI agents running across compute cluster megastructures in the skies. The agents claim that we are now in the 10,205th generation of the code base, in any case no one could tell if that’s right or wrong as the “code” is now a self-modifying binary that has grown beyond human comprehension. This repo is the sto…

What This Teaches

• How Karpathy frames autonomous research loops, experiment iteration, and AI-assisted discovery.
• Useful for designing agent workflows that improve through concrete experiments instead of one-off prompting.

Why It Matters

This is high-priority for Vipin because it informs agent workflows, paper digestion, wiki maintenance, and autonomous research loops.

Repository Snapshot

• Full name: karpathy/autoresearch
• Default branch: master
• HEAD: 228791fb499afffb54b46200aca536f79142f117
• Stars at crawl: 81258
• Forks at crawl: 11822
• File count: 10
• README path: README.md
• License path: “
• Created: 2026-03-06T22:00:43Z
• Updated: 2026-05-15T22:11:53Z
• Pushed: 2026-03-26T00:07:37Z

Top-Level Structure

• [root]: 10

File Extension Profile

• .md: 2
• .py: 2
• .gitignore: 1
• .ipynb: 1
• .lock: 1
• .png: 1
• .python-version: 1
• .toml: 1

Tags / Release-Like Markers

• No git tags found in the shallow local clone.

Sample File Tree

• .gitignore
• .python-version
• analysis.ipynb
• prepare.py
• program.md
• progress.png
• pyproject.toml
• README.md
• train.py
• uv.lock

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