karpathy-guidelines

Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring code to avoid overcomplication, make surgical changes, surface assumptions, and define verifiable success criteria.

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---
name: karpathy-guidelines
description: Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring code to avoid overcomplication, make surgical changes, surface assumptions, and define verifiable success criteria.
license: MIT
---

# Karpathy Guidelines

Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes, derived from [Andrej Karpathy's observations](https://x.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876) on LLM coding pitfalls.

**Tradeoff:**

How to Use

Recommended: Install to project (local)

mkdir -p .claude/skills
curl -o .claude/skills/karpathy-guidelines.md \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills/main/skills/karpathy-guidelines/SKILL.md

Skill is scoped to this project only. Add .claude/skills/ to your .gitignoreif you don't want to commit it.

Alternative: Clone full repo

git clone https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills

Then reference at skills/karpathy-guidelines/SKILL.md

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