Deep Learning on Top AI Skills

I Ran repo-intake-and-plan on 3 Real Repos: What It Caught

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Repo intake sounds like a formality until the report lands. RigorPilot’s repo-intake-and-plan helper (450,025 installs, #70 on skills.sh) is the scan-and-plan step of the family’s README-first reproduction pipeline, and today I ran its own scripts against three repos it would plausibly be handed: karpathy’s micrograd, makemore, and nanoGPT. Twenty-one commands came out of the three READMEs. One of them was a name the script invented, three more carried labels I’d have argued with, and the misses taught me more about the skill than the hits. Every number below is the scripts’ actual output, run on shallow clones at 2026-08-29 17:06 UTC.

Reproduce an AI Paper Repo: The 9-Step Rigor Sequence

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“Run this repo” is the most dangerous sentence in deep learning. Pick the whole training script as your target and the run dies somewhere in epoch two, and you can’t tell whether the code is broken or your setup is. RigorPilot’s ai-research-reproduction skill (310,832 installs, #162 on the skills.sh all-time board) exists to change that bet: it forces a README-first, smallest-honest-target pipeline that ends in a standardized repro_outputs/ evidence bundle. I read its SKILL.md, its patch policy, and its agent config on 2026-08-28. This guide walks the nine steps in order, with the exact rules that keep each one honest.

paper-context-resolver: 450K Installs, Zero Summaries

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

paper-context-resolver exists for the moment a reproduction run stalls on paper details the README never explains. Your agent hits the evaluation-split section and starts guessing. That split could be any of three things. This 49-line helper from the RigorPilot family passed 450,765 installs on skills.sh by refusing almost every other job you could give it. I read its SKILL.md, its reference file, and the live leaderboard on 2026-08-27. The refusals surprised me more than the numbers.