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multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills
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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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.
What it loads into context
Frontmatter
52 tokensAlways available to the agent
SKILL.md
565 tokensWhen the skill is activated
Reference documents
0 tokensLoaded on request
Token counts are estimates. Scripts run separately; they are not counted as reference context.
The playbook
- 1. Think Before Coding
- 2. Simplicity First
- 3. Surgical Changes
- 4. Goal-Driven Execution
Files
../../.claude-plugin/marketplace.jsonasset758 bytes../../.claude-plugin/plugin.jsonasset390 bytesSKILL.mdcore2,518 bytes
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Repository facts
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- Created
- Jan 27, 2026
- Last pushed
- Apr 20, 2026
- Forks
- 22,918
- Open issues
- 0
- Project activity
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- #5 on Aug 2
- #5 from Aug 8 to Oct 25
- #5 since Oct 28
Before you install
Instructions onlyAutomated signals, not a guarantee
Checked Nov 2, 2026
- No broad tool permissions
- No dangerous shell commands
- 1 network referencein 1 file: karpathy-guidelines/SKILL.md:9
- No hidden or obfuscated text
- No instruction overrides
- No executable scripts
- No access to secrets
- No requests to vote in Hot
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Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes, derived from [Andrej Karpathy's observations](https://x.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876) on LLM coding pitfalls.
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- Network access in prose of the SKILL.mdkarpathy-guidelines/SKILL.md:9Low confidence
Works with
| Agent | Status | Evidence | Install to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Native | Manifest .claude-plugin/marketplace.json | .claude/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Codex | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md skills/karpathy-guidelines/SKILL.md | .agents/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Cursor | Native | Path .cursor/rules/karpathy-guidelines.mdc | .cursor/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Gemini CLI | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md skills/karpathy-guidelines/SKILL.md | .gemini/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| GitHub Copilot | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md skills/karpathy-guidelines/SKILL.md | .github/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| OpenCode | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md skills/karpathy-guidelines/SKILL.md | .opencode/skills/<skill-name>/ |
- Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
- Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
- Unknown No evidence either way.
Derived automatically from paths, manifests and frontmatter. Not tested on each agent.
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