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.
Installation
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: szkocot/andrej-karpathy-skills.
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- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/szkocot/andrej-karpathy-skills --skill karpathy-guidelines- Category
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- 2026-02-01
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- 2026-02-18
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What is 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. Source: szkocot/andrej-karpathy-skills.
How do I install karpathy-guidelines?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/szkocot/andrej-karpathy-skills --skill karpathy-guidelines Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/szkocot/andrej-karpathy-skills
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- skills.sh
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- 2026-02-01