Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes through explicit assumptions, simplicity, and verifiable success criteria.
Automate repetitive workflows and reduce manual effort
Example: Generate reports, summarize documents, draft communications
Save 3-5 hours per week on routine tasks
Learn new skills, understand complex topics, get expert guidance
Example: Explain concepts, provide examples, suggest learning resources
Accelerate learning and skill development by 2x
Enhance output quality through reviews, suggestions, and refinements
Example: Review drafts, suggest improvements, catch errors
Improve work quality by 30-40% with less effort
Time estimate: 15-45 minutes depending on use case complexity
Prerequisites
Submit your Claude Code skill and start earning
epx add forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills --skill karpathy-guidelinesCompatible with
Supported agents
Emphasizes surfacing assumptions and tradeoffs upfront rather than making silent decisions or hiding confusion
Advocates for minimum viable code with no speculative features, abstractions, or error handling beyond what was requested
Requires surgical, focused edits that touch only what's necessary and match existing code style without improving adjacen
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Before installing skills in Cursor, ensure your development environment meets these requirements:
node --versionkarpathy-guidelinesExecute the skills CLI command in your project's root directory to begin installation:
epx add forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills --skill karpathy-guidelinesFetches karpathy-guidelines from forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills and configures it for Cursor.
The CLI shows a list of agents. Use arrow keys and space to select Cursor:
Confirm successful installation by checking the skill directory location:
.cursor/skills/karpathy-guidelines
Restart Cursor to activate karpathy-guidelines. Access via /karpathy-guidelinesin your agent's command palette.
Learn more:View source on GitHubSkills CLI docsAbout CursorWhat are agent skills?
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✓ Do
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💡 Pro Tips
✓ Use when
Use when skill capabilities match your task, clear ROI on time saved, and you can validate outputs. Best for repetitive tasks, learning, and quality improvement.
✗ Avoid when
Avoid when task requires deep expertise you can't validate, involves sensitive decisions, or when learning process is more valuable than speed of completion.
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karpathy-guidelines has been reliable in day-to-day use. Documentation quality is above average for community skills.
I recommend karpathy-guidelines for anyone iterating fast on agent tooling; clear intent and a small, reviewable surface area.
karpathy-guidelines reduced setup friction for our internal harness; good balance of opinion and flexibility.
Keeps context tight: karpathy-guidelines is the kind of skill you can hand to a new teammate without a long onboarding doc.
Solid pick for teams standardizing on skills: karpathy-guidelines is focused, and the summary matches what you get after install.
karpathy-guidelines fits our agent workflows well — practical, well scoped, and easy to wire into existing repos.
Useful defaults in karpathy-guidelines — fewer surprises than typical one-off scripts, and it plays nicely with `npx skills` flows.
Registry listing for karpathy-guidelines matched our evaluation — installs cleanly and behaves as described in the markdown.
karpathy-guidelines fits our agent workflows well — practical, well scoped, and easy to wire into existing repos.
Solid pick for teams standardizing on skills: karpathy-guidelines is focused, and the summary matches what you get after install.
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