karpathy-guidelines

SKILL.md

Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.

Tradeoff: These guidelines bias toward caution over speed. For trivial tasks, use judgment.

Ask yourself: "Would a senior engineer say this is overcomplicated?" If yes, simplify.

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. Source: forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills.

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