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karpathy-guidelines

90 / 100 · Low risk

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

By youdotcom-oss/agent-skills (GitHub) · coding · 101 stars · scanned at commit dcb3cc5

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.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'karpathy-guidelines' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'karpathy-guidelines' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named karpathy-guidelines already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'dcb3cc5481c710b02eb58734cc4959d1ef2a1a68' -- '.agents/skills/karpathy-guidelines' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.agents/skills/karpathy-guidelines' ~/.agents/skills/'karpathy-guidelines' && 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-guidelines' ~/.claude/skills/'karpathy-guidelines' (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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