karpathy-guidelines

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps prevent common coding errors made by Large Language Models by providing a set of behavioral guidelines focused on clarity, simplicity, and verification.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Pre-coding Clarity: Ensures assumptions are surfaced and tradeoffs are considered before implementation.
• Simplicity Enforcement: Guides towards minimal, non-speculative code.
• Surgical Editing: Promotes focused changes, touching only what's necessary.
• Goal-Oriented Development: Emphasizes defining verifiable success criteria for tasks.
• Use Case: When an LLM is asked to refactor a piece of code, these guidelines ensure it only modifies the necessary parts and doesn't introduce speculative features.

Quick Start

Apply the karpathy-guidelines skill to ensure the LLM writes simple, surgical, and goal-driven code.