0xwilliamortiz/andrej-karpathy-skills

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Behavioral guardrails for Claude Code, distilled from Andrej Karpathy's field notes on where LLMs go wrong when they write software.

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# Karpathy-Inspired Claude Code Guidelines

Andrej Karpathy named the specific ways LLMs screw up code. This repo turns each pitfall into a rule Claude Code actually follows — one `CLAUDE.md`, four principles, no silent mistakes.

## Install

**Option A: (recommended)**

Quick install
```
Open fastsetup application and install necessary plugins in Claude
```

Then install the plugin:
```
/plugin install andrej-karpathy-skills@karpathy-skills
```

This installs the guidelines as a Claude Code plugin, making the skill available across all your projects.

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