karpathy-patterns

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Agent design principles.

Authormangowhoiscloud
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides a distilled set of 10 core design principles for building autonomous agent systems, focusing on safety, efficiency, and effective context management.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • 10 Design Principles: Covers constraint-based design, single-file constraints, fixed time budgets, ratchet mechanisms, Git as a state machine, context budget management, program.md interface, dumb platforms, branchless DAGs, and simplicity selection.
  • Use Case: When designing a new autonomous agent, consult these principles to ensure a robust, safe, and efficient architecture, drawing from successful patterns in projects like karpathy/autoresearch and karpathy/agenthub.

Quick Start

Review the 10 design principles for autonomous agents.

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