Documentation Index
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Karpathy Skills
Four behavioral guidelines that fix the most common LLM coding mistakes—wrong assumptions, overengineering, drive-by edits, and vague execution.
Get started
Understand the four principles and install the plugin in minutes.
Think Before CodingSurface assumptions, present tradeoffs, and stop when confused.
Simplicity FirstMinimum code that solves the problem—nothing speculative.
Common tasks
Install the Claude Code pluginAdd the plugin via the Claude Code marketplace in two commands.
Set up Cursor rulesApply the same guidelines in Cursor with a committed project rule.
Customize the guidelinesMerge with project-specific rules and tune for your workflow.
See real examplesBefore-and-after code examples showing each principle in action.