karpathy-guidelines
Behavioral guidelines for LLMs to improve code quality through simplicity, surgical edits, and verifiable goals.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills --skill karpathy-guidelinesStats
| Total installs | 2,016 |
| Weekly installs | 2.0K |
| GitHub stars | 7.6K |
| First seen | Jan 28, 2026 |
| Source | @forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills |
Summary
- Emphasizes surfacing assumptions and tradeoffs upfront rather than making silent decisions or hiding confusion
- Advocates for minimum viable code with no speculative features, abstractions, or error handling beyond what was requested
- Requires surgical, focused edits that touch only what's necessary and match existing code style without improving adjacent code
- Transforms tasks into verifiable goals with explicit success criteria and multi-step plans that enable independent verification loops
Tags
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FAQ
- How many installs does karpathy-guidelines have?
- karpathy-guidelines has 2,016 total installs and 2.0K installs this week.
- Where is karpathy-guidelines hosted?
- karpathy-guidelines is published by @forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills at https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills.
- How many GitHub stars does karpathy-guidelines have?
- karpathy-guidelines has 7.6K GitHub stars.
- When was karpathy-guidelines first indexed?
- OrangeBot.AI first indexed karpathy-guidelines on Jan 28, 2026.
- How do I install karpathy-guidelines?
- Run: npx skills add https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills --skill karpathy-guidelines