Karpathy Skills

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. It can be installed as a Claude Code plugin or copied directly into a project as reusable instructions. Its main value is not automation, but behavioral alignment that helps coding agents produce cleaner, smaller, and more deliberate changes.