karpathy/autoresearch★★★★★
🆓 free🛠️ needs wiring
Karpathy's proof-of-concept for letting AI agents do research on their own.
why it matters
Andrej Karpathy built this to show what it looks like when you point AI agents at a scientific problem and let them iterate — they propose experiments, run them, read the results, propose new ones. Minimal babysitting.
Not a drop-in tool you install. It's a pattern to learn from: how to scope a goal, what a feedback loop looks like, where to add guardrails. If you're trying to build an autonomous agent for your own topic, study this one as a case study.
install
git clone https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearchwhere to find it
repo health★ 75,483
avoid if
You want a ready-to-use tool. This is research — better studied than installed.
see it in action
open the module that demos karpathy/autoresearch