From 65df0de42b58de70299401965ce605aa0ebcb77a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrej Karpathy Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:34:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add arxiv reading skill --- .claude/skills/read-arxiv-paper/SKILL.md | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .claude/skills/read-arxiv-paper/SKILL.md diff --git a/.claude/skills/read-arxiv-paper/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/read-arxiv-paper/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a9cda7 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/read-arxiv-paper/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +name: read-arxiv-paper +description: Use this skill when when asked to read an arxiv paper given an arxiv URL +--- + +You will be given a URL of an arxiv paper, for example: + +https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.07372 + +### Part 1: Normalize the URL + +The goal is to fetch the TeX Source of the paper (not the PDF!), the URL always looks like this: + +https://www.arxiv.org/src/2601.07372 + +Notice the /src/ in the url. Once you have the URL: + +### Part 2: Download the paper source + +Fetch the url to a local .tar.gz file. A good location is `~/.cache/nanochat/knowledge/{arxiv_id}.tar.gz`. + +(If the file already exists, there is no need to re-download it). + +### Part 3: Unpack the file in that folder + +Unpack the contents into `~/.cache/nanochat/knowledge/{arxiv_id}` directory. + +### Part 4: Locate the entrypoint + +Every latex source usually has an entrypoint, such as `main.tex` or something like that. + +### Part 5: Read the paper + +Once you've found the entrypoint, Read the contents and then recurse through all other relevant source files to read the paper. + +#### Part 6: Report + +Once you've read the paper, produce a summary of the paper into a markdown file at `./knowledge/summary_{tag}.md`. Notice that 1) use the local knowledge directory here (it's easier for me to open and reference here), not in `~/.cache`, and 2) generate some reasonable `tag` like e.g. `conditional_memory` or whatever seems appropriate given the paper. Probably make sure that the tag doesn't exist yet so you're not overwriting files. + +As for the summary itself, remember that you're processing this paper within the context of the nanochat repository, so most often we we will be interested in how to apply the paper and its lessons to the nanochat project. Therefore, you should feel free to "remind yourself" of the related nanochat code by reading the relevant parts, and then explicitly make the connection of how this paper might relate to nanochat or what are things we might be inspired about or try.