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Stop Claude Code from overengineering your code
Install the Karpathy guidelines as a plugin so every project gets the Simplicity First and Surgical Changes rules.
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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.
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Add the Karpathy coding rules to a single repo's CLAUDE.md
Drop the guidelines into one project's CLAUDE.md so the whole team's agent sessions follow them.
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Append the andrej-karpathy-skills CLAUDE.md to this repo's existing CLAUDE.md without removing anything already there, add a short project section with <our rules>, and show me the final diff before committing.
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Make your agent work toward tests instead of vague tasks
Use the Goal-Driven Execution principle to turn requests like fix the bug into a test that must pass.
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Using the Goal-Driven Execution principle from andrej-karpathy-skills, turn this task into verifiable success criteria: <task>. Write the failing test first, give me a numbered plan where each step has a verify check, then loop until all checks pass.
Quick start with Andrej Karpathy Skills
- Check you have what it needs: 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.
- Open multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills on GitHub and read the README and license.
- Open Claude Code in any project
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/plugin marketplace add forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skillsto add the marketplace - Run
/plugin install andrej-karpathy-skills@karpathy-skillsto install the guidelines across all your projects - Give the agent a small change and check that every changed line traces to your request
These steps come from our top use case, Stop Claude Code from overengineering your code, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.
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- Who it is forDevelopers using Claude Code or Cursor who are tired of agents that guess, overbuild and edit code they were never asked to touch.
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- 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
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What is Andrej Karpathy Skills?
A single CLAUDE.md file that changes how Claude Code writes code, based on Andrej Karpathy's observations about LLM coding pitfalls. It encodes four principles: Think Before Coding, Simplicity First, Surgical Changes and Goal-Driven Execution, so the agent states assumptions, writes less code, touches only what the task needs and works toward verifiable success criteria. It is an open-source project on GitHub: https://github.com/multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills.
How do I use Andrej Karpathy Skills?
Open Claude Code in any project; then 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. The use cases on this page give the full steps and a copy-paste agent prompt for each job.
Who is Andrej Karpathy Skills for?
Developers using Claude Code or Cursor who are tired of agents that guess, overbuild and edit code they were never asked to touch.
What can I do with Andrej Karpathy Skills?
3 use cases so far, for example: Stop Claude Code from overengineering your code; Add the Karpathy coding rules to a single repo's CLAUDE.md; Make your agent work toward tests instead of vague tasks. Each has steps and a copy-paste agent prompt.
What do I need to run Andrej Karpathy Skills?
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.
What are alternatives to Andrej Karpathy Skills?
Other hot AI repos in Software and DevOps: Deep Infer, Harness2, Orca, Opencode, Graphify.
Is Andrej Karpathy Skills safe to run?
Deduped does not own, audit or vouch for it. Read the README and license, run it on your own systems first and review every command before you run it.