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karpathy-patterns from mangowhoiscloud/geode is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- git:20260906.dc9349e, committed Sep 6, 2026
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Reference when designing autonomous agent systems or deciding agent freedom/safety/context management/collaboration infrastructure. 10 design principles distilled from Karpathy autoresearch (autonomous ML experiment loop) + AgentHub (agent-native Git DAG). Triggered by "autoresearch", "agenthub", "ratchet" ("래칫"), "context budget", "dumb platform", "program.md", "overnight", "autonomous experiment" ("자율 실험"), "branchless", "single-file constraint" ("단일 파일 제약"), "fixed time budget" ("고정 시간 예산")…
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What the file says
# Karpathy Patterns — Autonomous Agent Design Principles > **Source**: `karpathy/autoresearch` (Python, 3 files) + `karpathy/agenthub` (Go, single binary) > **Philosophy**: Quality is guaranteed by constraints, not infrastructure. > **Historical provenance**: Blog 22 (`22-karpathy-autoresearch-autonomous-ml-loop.md`) > and Blog 23 (`23-karpathy-agenthub-agent-native-infrastructure.md`) are absent > from this checkout; the former links are not maintained source references. ## Current GEODE applicability — reviewed 2026-09-06 The upstream pattern notes below are conceptual references. Their GEODE counterpart paragraphs are historical, not current implementation instructions: old node paths, iteration limits, layer numbers, and event counts must not be copied into new work. Ground present-day application in [AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md), [code conventions](../../../docs/architecture/naming-conventions.md), and [runtime authority](../../../docs/architecture/coding-runtime-authority.md). `core` owns the runtime, `evals` measurement, and `evolve` scaffold search and promotion. Use the [architecture roadmap](../../../docs/architecture/extensibility-roadmap.md) …
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How to install
mdr add mangowhoiscloud/geode/karpathy-patterns@sha256:0e75bf1363818ddeThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260906.dc9349e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
mangowhoiscloud/geode · 15 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
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