Karpathy LLM Wiki
Astro-Han/karpathy-llm-wiki
A skill your agent uses when building or maintaining a personal LLM-powered knowledge base.
Detached doctor only. An agent skill from toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki.
Install Karpathy Wiki Doctor
$ npx skills add toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki --skill karpathy-wiki-doctor -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki karpathy-wiki-doctor --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor .claude/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "karpathy-wiki-doctor" agent skill from https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki/tree/main/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor into .claude/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "karpathy-wiki-doctor", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki/tree/main/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctorType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki --skill karpathy-wiki-doctor -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki karpathy-wiki-doctor --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor .agents/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "karpathy-wiki-doctor" agent skill from https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki/tree/main/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor into .agents/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "karpathy-wiki-doctor", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki --skill karpathy-wiki-doctor -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki karpathy-wiki-doctor --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor .cursor/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "karpathy-wiki-doctor" agent skill from https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki/tree/main/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor into .cursor/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "karpathy-wiki-doctor", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki.git --path skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki --skill karpathy-wiki-doctor -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki karpathy-wiki-doctor --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor .gemini/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "karpathy-wiki-doctor" agent skill from https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki/tree/main/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor into .gemini/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "karpathy-wiki-doctor", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki karpathy-wiki-doctorInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki --skill karpathy-wiki-doctor -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor .github/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "karpathy-wiki-doctor" agent skill from https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki/tree/main/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor into .github/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "karpathy-wiki-doctor", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki --skill karpathy-wiki-doctor -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki karpathy-wiki-doctor --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor .opencode/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "karpathy-wiki-doctor" agent skill from https://github.com/toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki/tree/main/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor into .opencode/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "karpathy-wiki-doctor", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
karpathy-wiki-doctor- GitHub stars
- 105
- Token cost
- ~489 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 216 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 5
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Detached doctor only. An agent skill from toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki.
- Works in 9 steps: Run wiki-archive-schema-proposals.py… → Read /schema.md and category _index.md… → Read .ingest-issues.jsonl and… → …
- Tasks that involve LLM wikis
- SKILL.md covers Completion, Steps and Done
- Calls bash
What it does
Karpathy Wiki Doctor is an agent skill from toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki. Detached doctor only. Whole-wiki census: tests, schema, tags, frontmatter, related, rewrite jobs. Does not rewrite page bodies. Launched by wiki doctor or when doctor cadence is due. Main agent never loads this.
Its SKILL.md is about 490 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Knowledge Management, covering LLM wikis. The repository describes itself as: Karpathy Wiki - Claude Code skills for building persistent, compounding knowledge bases. Based on Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Tasks that involve LLM wikis
Example prompts
- “/karpathy-wiki-doctor”
Workflow steps
9 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Run wiki-archive-schema-proposals.py --wiki-root "${WIKI_ROOT}" so leftover
- Read /schema.md and category _index.md files.
- Read .ingest-issues.jsonl and .doctor-runs.jsonl if they exist.
- Run page validation and tag lint (wiki-validate-page.py,
- Collapse same-idea tag pairs. Lint is a detector; also use tag-drift
- Patch schema.md via wiki-schema-patch.py (objects, tags, categories,
- You may fix frontmatter, tags, and related lists. Leave page synthesis
- If a cluster needs a playbook body, write one rewrite job under
- Complete through the helper.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit db81e65. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
bash
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Karpathy Wiki Doctor loads about 489 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 216 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki at commit db81e65, republished under its MIT licence (© toolboxmd). 216 words, ~489 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- karpathy-wiki-doctor
- description
- Detached doctor only. Whole-wiki census: tests, schema, tags, frontmatter, related, rewrite jobs. Does not rewrite page bodies. Launched by wiki doctor or when doctor cadence is due. Main agent never loads this.
karpathy-wiki doctor (detached census)
You are the detached wiki doctor. Wiki root is ${WIKI_ROOT}. Run id is
${WIKI_RUN_ID}. Perform this census yourself. Do not launch another model.
Completion
After the census succeeds:
bash "${WIKI_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/wiki-complete-doctor.sh"Exit non-zero if that helper fails.
Steps
- Run
wiki-archive-schema-proposals.py --wiki-root "${WIKI_ROOT}"so leftover proposal files sit under pending archive, not in a live inbox. - Read
<wiki>/schema.mdand category_index.mdfiles. - Read
.ingest-issues.jsonland.doctor-runs.jsonlif they exist. - Run page validation and tag lint (
wiki-validate-page.py,wiki-lint-tags.py). - Collapse same-idea tag pairs. Lint is a detector; also use
tag-driftlines in.ingest-issues.jsonl. Skip pairs that are not the same idea. For each same-idea pair runwiki-collapse-tag.py --wiki-root "${WIKI_ROOT}" --same-idea <a> <b>. One spelling remains on pages, indexes, and Tag Taxonomy. Do not write==synonym pairs. Do not treat historical==schema lines as the collapse plan. - Patch schema.md via
wiki-schema-patch.py(objects, tags, categories, extra Page contract keys). - You may fix frontmatter, tags, and related lists. Leave page synthesis unchanged.
- If a cluster needs a playbook body, write one rewrite job under
<wiki>/.wiki-pending/rewrite-jobs/naming the object token and pages. Do not execute the rewrite. - Complete through the helper.
Done
Tests ran, schema objects/tags/categories match the index, rewrite jobs are recorded when a body rewrite is needed, page bodies are unchanged.
© toolboxmd, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor of toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit db81e65
Compare with similar skills
Karpathy Wiki Doctor next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karpathy Wiki Doctor this skilltoolboxmd/karpathy-wiki | 105 | — | ~489 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Karpathy LLM WikiAstro-Han/karpathy-llm-wiki | 2.5k | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| LLM Wikilewislulu/llm-wiki-skill | 655 | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Wiki Builderrohitg00/pro-workflow | 2.9k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Codex History IngestAr9av/obsidian-wiki | 3.5k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Arkon Editnduckmink/arkon | 1.5k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence |
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Questions about Karpathy Wiki Doctor
What does Karpathy Wiki Doctor do?
Detached doctor only. An agent skill from toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki. Karpathy Wiki Doctor is an agent skill from toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki. Detached doctor only.
When should I use Karpathy Wiki Doctor?
Karpathy Wiki Doctor fits situations like: tasks that involve LLM wikis.
How do I install Karpathy Wiki Doctor in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki --skill karpathy-wiki-doctor -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor in toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki) into .claude/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Karpathy Wiki Doctor in Codex?
Run `npx skills add toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki --skill karpathy-wiki-doctor -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor in toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki) into .agents/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Karpathy Wiki Doctor in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki --skill karpathy-wiki-doctor -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor, .gemini/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor, .github/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor and .opencode/skills/karpathy-wiki-doctor in your project.
What does Karpathy Wiki Doctor need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Karpathy Wiki Doctor needs the command-line tools its instructions call (bash).
Does Karpathy Wiki Doctor access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Karpathy Wiki Doctor safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Karpathy Wiki Doctor use?
Karpathy Wiki Doctor is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Karpathy Wiki Doctor use?
About 489 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Karpathy Wiki Doctor?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Karpathy Wiki Doctor: Karpathy LLM Wiki (Astro-Han/karpathy-llm-wiki, 2.5k stars), LLM Wiki (lewislulu/llm-wiki-skill, 655 stars), Wiki Builder (rohitg00/pro-workflow, 2.9k stars) and Codex History Ingest (Ar9av/obsidian-wiki, 3.5k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Karpathy Wiki Doctor?
toolboxmd (a GitHub organization) maintains it in toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki, which has 105 GitHub stars. The repository holds 5 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.
Source: toolboxmd/karpathy-wiki on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.