karpathy-coder

82 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By sinhoneyy/master-skills (GitHub) · coding · 17 stars · scanned at commit 8e70b78

Use when writing, reviewing, or committing code to enforce Karpathy's 4 coding principles — surface assumptions before coding, keep it simple, make surgical changes, define verifiable goals. Triggers on "review my diff", "check complexity", "am I overcomplicating this", "karpathy check", "before I commit", or any code quality concern where the LLM might be overcoding.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 1 place.

skills/karpathy-coder/references/enforcement-patterns.md, line 37npx husky add .husky/pre-commit "bash path/to/karpathy-gate.sh"

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 2 places.

skills/karpathy-coder/scripts/diff_surgeon.py, line 54result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=30)
skills/karpathy-coder/scripts/diff_surgeon.py, line 56except (subprocess.TimeoutExpired, FileNotFoundError) as e:

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plugins/master-skills-ai-agent-builder/skills/karpathy-coder 82/100 · Low risk

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'karpathy-coder' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'karpathy-coder' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named karpathy-coder already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/sinhoneyy/master-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8e70b780359915a1f197ca37a1add2d4016115a2' -- 'skills/karpathy-coder' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/karpathy-coder' ~/.agents/skills/'karpathy-coder' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'karpathy-coder' ~/.claude/skills/'karpathy-coder' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-09	`8e70b78`	82