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 "generated": "2026-10-26",
 "id": "multica-ai-andrej-karpathy-skills--stop-claude-code-from-overengineering",
 "repo": "multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills",
 "repo_slug": "multica-ai-andrej-karpathy-skills",
 "title": "Stop Claude Code from overengineering your code",
 "page_title": "How to stop Claude Code from overengineering your code with Andrej Karpathy Skills",
 "summary": "Install the Karpathy guidelines as a plugin so every project gets the Simplicity First and Surgical Changes rules.",
 "who": "A developer whose agent turns a 50 line fix into a 400 line abstraction and rewrites comments it did not need to touch.",
 "problem": "LLM agents bloat abstractions, add unrequested configurability and make orthogonal edits as side effects.",
 "outcome": "An agent that writes the minimum code for the task, matches existing style and leaves unrelated code alone.",
 "steps": [
  "Open Claude Code in any project",
  "Run `/plugin marketplace add forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills` to add the marketplace",
  "Run `/plugin install andrej-karpathy-skills@karpathy-skills` to install the guidelines across all your projects",
  "Give the agent a small change and check that every changed line traces to your request",
  "If it notices unrelated dead code, expect it to mention it rather than delete it"
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "Install the andrej-karpathy-skills plugin in Claude Code, then make this change: <change>. Follow Simplicity First and Surgical Changes: touch only what the task needs, match existing style, and list any unrelated issues you notice instead of fixing them.",
 "agents": [
  "claude-code"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Beginner",
 "time": "5 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "The guidelines bias toward caution over speed; the README says trivial tasks do not need the full rigor.",
 "category": "Software and DevOps",
 "tags": [
  "Software and DevOps"
 ],
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 "requirements": [
  "Claude Code (plugin install) or any project where the agent reads CLAUDE.md",
  "curl for the per-project install",
  "Cursor users can use the committed project rule in .cursor/rules"
 ],
 "risk": "none",
 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [],
 "best": true,
 "score": 1.0,
 "evidence": [],
 "url": "https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/multica-ai-andrej-karpathy-skills/stop-claude-code-from-overengineering/",
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