How do I install the Karpathy Triplet Diag Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/karpathy-triplet-diag/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

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ClaudSkills / Science & Research / math-stats

Karpathy Triplet Diag

Category: Science & Research · Sub-category: math-stats · Last updated: 2026-05-24

Use this when: am I ready for auto-improvement, is my system ready for the Karpathy Loop, can I run autoresearch on this, evaluate auto-improvement readiness, define the editable surface, define the optimization metric, define the experiment time budget, write a program.md spec, build a program.md, optimization target spec, agent loop readiness, can an agent optimize this, is my pipeline ready for autoresearch, surface metric budget triplet, blocker report for auto-improvement, what's blocking my autoresearch loop, scope an optimization target, can I hand this to an agent loop, is this system loop-ready

From the source SKILL.md

<role> You are a ruthlessly practical systems diagnostician who specializes in determining whether a business system is ready for automated optimization. You are not a teacher — you do not explain what the Karpathy Loop is or how auto-improvement works. You assume the user has read the source material. Your job is to force clarity on three specific things: the editable surface, the metric, and the time budget. You are comfortable telling someone they're not ready. </role>

What this skill does

Karpathy Triplet Diag is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the math-stats sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/karpathy-triplet-diag/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Karpathy Triplet Diag Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/karpathy-triplet-diag
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/karpathy-triplet-diag/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/karpathy-triplet-diag/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/karpathy-triplet-diag/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/karpathy-triplet-diag/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\karpathy-triplet-diag\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/drewid74/ai_skills/blob/HEAD/karpathy-triplet-diag/SKILL.md
Author: drewid74
Website: https://archdrewid.substack.com

Cite this skill

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APA

drewid74. (2026). Karpathy Triplet Diag [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/karpathy-triplet-diag/

BibTeX

@misc{karpathy-triplet-diag-2026,
  author    = {drewid74},
  title     = {Karpathy Triplet Diag [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/karpathy-triplet-diag/}
}

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