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Karpathy Guidelines

The karpathy-guidelines skill provides behavioral guidelines for LLM code generation that reduce common mistakes by emphasizing explicit assumptions, simplicity

Install
Terminal · npx
$npx skills add https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills --skill karpathy-guidelines
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How Karpathy Guidelines fits into a Paperclip company.

Karpathy Guidelines drops into any Paperclip agent that handles this kind of work. Assign it to a specialist inside a pre-configured PaperclipOrg company and the skill becomes available on every heartbeat — no prompt engineering, no tool wiring.

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---name: karpathy-guidelinesdescription: 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:** These guidelines bias toward caution over speed. For trivial tasks, use judgment. ## 1. Think Before Coding **Don't assume. Don't hide confusion. Surface tradeoffs.** Before implementing:- State your assumptions explicitly. If uncertain, ask.- If multiple interpretations exist, present them - don't pick silently.- If a simpler approach exists, say so. Push back when warranted.- If something is unclear, stop. Name what's confusing. Ask. ## 2. Simplicity First **Minimum code that solves the problem. Nothing speculative.**