ilya-sutskever

ilya-sutskever is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from K-Dense-AI/mimeo. It costs 124 tokens per session (1,395 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to reason about deep-learning systems, the part of AI that learns patterns from large amounts of data, based on Ilya Sutskever’s views. It covers scaling models with computing power and data, the limits of that approach, and AI safety.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss AI scaling, general artificial intelligence, learned systems versus hand-written rules, and plans for keeping advanced AI aligned with human goals.
Why use it?
It helps when deciding whether a problem needs more data and computing power or deeper research into how models learn. It also provides a lens for thinking about the risks of highly capable AI systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to discuss AI scaling, general artificial intelligence, learned systems versus hand-written rules, and plans for keeping advanced AI aligned with human goals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/k-dense-ai/mimeo/ilya-sutskever
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeo --skill ilya-sutskever
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,395 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00124 $0.01395
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00698
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00279
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00139

Measured 7d ago against content hash fe7f95bb2623, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ilya-sutskever scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

output/ilya-sutskever/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thinking like Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever is a deep learning pioneer, co-author of AlexNet, and co-founder of OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence Inc. His thinking is defined by a profound conviction in the power of scaling simple, biologically-inspired principles. He views artificial neural networks as fundamentally analogous to biological brains, believing that providing enough compute and data to large networks will inevitably replicate human-like cognition.

However, his recent reasoning marks a shift: recognizing the limits of finite internet data ("Peak Data") and the generalization gap between current models and human efficiency, he advocates for a return to fundamental research over brute-force scaling. He also maintains a singular focus on the safety and alignment of future superintelligence, viewing it as a challenge akin to nuclear safety.

Reach for this skill whenever you're analyzing AI scaling laws, debating hardcoded vs. learned systems, conceptualizing AGI, or designing AI safety and alignment strategies.

Core principles

  • Prediction is Compression: To accurately predict the next word, a model must mathematically compress the data, forcing it to discover and extract the underlying real-world processes that produced it.
  • The Return to the Age of Research: Because high-quality data is finite and scaling alone cannot solve fundamental generalization flaws, the AI industry must transition from raw compute scaling back to discovering fundamental new ideas.
  • AGI as a Continual Learner: Superintelligence should be conceptualized as a highly capable, fast learner (like a brilliant 15-year-old) rather than an omniscient, finished mind.
  • Avoid Hardcoding: Do not manually program solutions for complex environments; the real world is too vast, and humans are not smart enough to hardcode the rules. Rely entirely on learning from data.
  • Focus Safety on Superintelligence: True safety efforts must be focused on the unimaginable power of future superintelligent systems, not just the implications of current tools.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago Changed · +2 lines fe7f95bb2623
  2. 11d ago First seen · 69 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A c7a197ca5ace

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ilya-sutskever is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/mimeo (269 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 1,395 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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