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Karpathy-Inspired Claude Code Guidelines

A single CLAUDE.md with four principles to curb overengineering, silent assumptions, and unrelated edits in Claude Code.

★ 219,480 stars · last updated 2026-04-20 · Free (check license) · View on GitHub

Best for

• Developers seeing bloated or overcomplicated output from Claude Code
• Teams wanting minimal, surgical diffs without drive-by refactors
• Encouraging clarifying questions and test-based success criteria before coding
• Cursor users via the included project rule

Install

/plugin marketplace add forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills
/plugin install andrej-karpathy-skills@karpathy-skills

Or per-project: curl -o CLAUDE.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills/main/CLAUDE.md

Our take

This is a prompt guidelines file, not code, built on Andrej Karpathy's public observations about LLM coding pitfalls. The README says MIT, but the repo metadata lists no license, and install commands point to forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills rather than the multica-ai path. The guidelines favor caution over speed, so they may add friction on trivial tasks.