Karpathy Skills
A single CLAUDE.md of Karpathy-inspired rules that keep Claude Code focused, simple and surgical.
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A single ~65-line CLAUDE.md that distills Andrej Karpathy's observations on where AI coding goes wrong into four principles: Think Before Coding, Simplicity First, Surgical Changes, and Goal-Driven Execution. It gives Claude Code strict rules to verify goals before execution, avoid over-engineering, minimize file diffs, and test changes autonomously.
Important: this was NOT written by Karpathy himself. It is a third-party repo by Jiayuan Zhang (multica-ai), inspired by Karpathy, MIT licensed, and not updated since April 2026.
Install as a plugin:
/plugin marketplace add forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills
/plugin install andrej-karpathy-skills@karpathy-skillsCopy individual commands
/plugin marketplace add forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills/plugin install andrej-karpathy-skills@karpathy-skills
Or use it per-project by copying the file into your repo:
curl -o CLAUDE.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills/main/CLAUDE.mdMore in Claude Skills
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