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The fastest local AI engine for Apple Silicon. 4.2x faster than Ollama, 0.08s cached TTFT, 100% tool calling. 17 tool parsers, prompt cache, reasoning separation, cloud routing. Drop-in OpenAI replacement. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Aider.
A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.
Andrej Karpathy Skills has the larger GitHub footprint with 125.3K stars.
Rapid MLX is currently growing faster at 0 stars this week.
Rapid MLX has the stronger health score at 76/100.
| Signal | Rapid MLX | Andrej Karpathy Skills |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 2.1K | 125.3K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | 0 |
| Health score | 76 | 32 |
| Contributors | 26 | 7 |
| Commits per week | 30.4 | 0.6 |
| Open issues | 26 | 88 |
| Language | Python | N/A |
| License | Apache-2.0 | N/A |
| Last commit | 17h ago | 22d ago |
| Last release | v0.6.35 | N/A |
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