karpathy-guidelines

Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring code to avoid overcomplication, make surgical changes, surface assumptions, and define verifiable success criteria.

Try your first task

Make a minimal, verified bug fix

Start a fresh conversation. Replace the highlighted placeholders.

Use the karpathy-guidelines skill to fix [bug description] in [repository path]. Before editing, state any assumptions or ambiguities. Write a test that reproduces the bug, make the smallest change needed to pass it, match the existing style, avoid unrelated edits, and verify the relevant tests afterward.

Required inputs

Repository path
Bug description
Relevant test command or test location, if known

Suggested template by Skill Leaderboard, grounded in the linked source. Task evidence ↗

Inside SKILL.md

67 lines

Section content has not been verified for this skill yet.

Full source remains withheld under the current source-display policy. Read the author’s source ↗