Karpathy Guidelines

The karpathy-guidelines skill provides behavioral guidelines for LLM code generation that reduce common mistakes by emphasizing explicit assumptions, simplicity, surgical edits, and verifiable success criteria. It is for developers and code reviewers working with LLMs to improve code quality and prevent overcomplication. The skill solves the problem of LLM-generated code that introduces unnecessary complexity, makes silent assumptions, makes unfocused changes, and lacks clear success criteria—patterns identified by Andrej Karpathy as frequent pitfalls.