scriptsbots

Source

• Source kind: github-repository
• URL: https://github.com/karpathy/scriptsbots
• Discovery source: https://github.com/karpathy/scriptsbots
• License: NOASSERTION
• Distribution policy: public-summary-local-archive-only
• Public mirror status: summary-only
• Content hash: 4d223422f1f8a66b50c0e6e9430d68dd8601684339579f70c412b86c1b3d5b17
• 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

This is a cross platform version of ScriptBots by Andrej Karpathy. Project Home: https://sites.google.com/site/scriptbotsevo/home To compile scriptbots you will need: CMake = 2.8 (http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html) OpenGL and GLUT (http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/) Linux: freeglut (http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/) To build ScriptBots on Linux: $cdpath/to/source$ mkdir build $cdbuild$ cmake ../ this is the equiv of ./configure $makeToexecuteScriptBotssimplytypethefollowinginthebuilddirectory:$ ./scriptbots For windows: Follow basically the same steps, but after r…

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/scriptsbots
• Default branch: master
• HEAD: 7c5b77c7e030b3d35322fd0ecde771735553718e
• Stars at crawl: 172
• Forks at crawl: 55
• File count: 33
• README path: README
• License path: “
• Created: 2011-02-13T05:40:12Z
• Updated: 2026-05-10T13:12:04Z
• Pushed: 2012-01-02T00:40:51Z

Top-Level Structure

• [root]: 33

File Extension Profile

• .h: 11
• .cpp: 10
• .txt: 4
• .dll: 2
• .lib: 2
• .gitignore: 1
• .in: 1
• .vcproj: 1
• [none]: 1

Tags / Release-Like Markers

• No git tags found in the shallow local clone.

Sample File Tree

• .gitignore
• Agent.cpp
• Agent.h
• AssemblyBrain.cpp
• AssemblyBrain.h
• changes.txt
• CMakeLists.txt
• config.h.in
• DWRAONBrain.cpp
• DWRAONBrain.h
• glut.dll
• glut.h
• glut.lib
• glut32.dll
• glut32.lib
• GLView.cpp
• GLView.h
• helpers.h
• main.cpp
• MLPBrain.cpp
• MLPBrain.h
• oldmain.cpp
• README
• README.txt
• report.txt
• scriptbots.vcproj
• settings.h
• View.cpp
• View.h
• vmath.cpp
• vmath.h
• World.cpp
• World.h

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