Karpathy Skills is a compact guidance project built around a single CLAUDE.md file for improving AI coding agent behavior. It translates observations about common LLM coding failures into practical working rules for Claude Code and compatible workflows. The project focuses on reducing wrong assumptions, hidden confusion, overengineered solutions, and unnecessary edits outside the requested scope. Its principles encourage the agent to think before coding, prefer simple implementations, make surgical changes, and define verifiable success criteria. ...