Research Loop was inspired in part by Andrej Karpathy's public LLM Wiki idea file:
https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f
The inspiration is conceptual: durable filesystem-backed state for long-running LLM work, explicit separation between source material and LLM-maintained derived state, and repository-level instructions that help agents maintain that state across sessions.
Research Loop independently applies related ideas to the lifecycle of computational research experiments. Its plan/approval/raw-result/analysis/critique state machine, manifest format, validation rules, and implementation are independently written for this project.
No text or code from the LLM Wiki gist is included in this repository.
At the time this notice was written, the referenced gist did not display an explicit software license. This attribution therefore should not be read as a license grant or as a claim that attribution alone permits copying protected expression. Research Loop relies on independently written implementation and documentation while acknowledging the source of conceptual inspiration.
Research Loop can optionally be paired with Research Ponytail:
https://github.com/dlwnsdn0285/research-ponytail
Research Ponytail is a separate project and is not bundled into Research Loop. Its own repository contains its license and third-party attribution. Research Loop merely documents an optional integration pattern.