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Andrej Karpathy Guidelines

Behavioral guardrails encoding Karpathy’s LLM coding rules: think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, goal-driven execution.

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Overview

Andrej Karpathy Guidelines is a Claude skill added to LimeDock Directories from recent community and vendor roundups. Behavioral guardrails encoding Karpathy’s LLM coding rules: think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, goal-driven execution. This page covers install, how to invoke it, example prompts, prerequisites, and concrete use cases.

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Link

https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills
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Installation guide

/plugin marketplace add forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills
/plugin install andrej-karpathy-skills@karpathy-skills

Or curl CLAUDE.md into a project and merge with your own rules.

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How to use it

Leave enabled at user/project level. Claude states assumptions, avoids over-engineering, and only touches required code.

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Example prompts

  • “Use the Andrej Karpathy Guidelines skill for: Stop silent wrong assumptions”
  • “Walk me through Andrej Karpathy Guidelines step by step, then execute on my project.”
  • “Review my current approach and improve it using Andrej Karpathy Guidelines.”
  • “Produce a reusable checklist for running Andrej Karpathy Guidelines on similar work.”
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Use cases and examples

  • Stop silent wrong assumptions
  • Prevent 50-line fixes becoming 500-line rewrites
  • Surgical bugfixes without drive-by refactors
  • Goal-driven loops with success criteria
  • Team playbook trial of Andrej Karpathy Guidelines on a real workflow
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Prerequisites

  • Claude Code, Claude.ai (Skills enabled), or an Agent Skills–compatible host
  • Permission to install third-party skills — audit SKILL.md and scripts first
  • Project context (CLAUDE.md / product notes) for better outputs
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Tips

  • Keep triggers specific so Andrej Karpathy Guidelines only fires when relevant.
  • Audit SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before production use.
  • Pair with verification (tests, review, screenshots) before shipping.
  • Re-audit installed skills monthly to avoid context tax from unused packs.
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Sources