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karpathy-code-guidelines

v2.0.0

Six Karpathy-inspired principles that stop Claude Code from making silent assumptions, overengineering, doing drive-by refactoring, and patching bugs blindly.

Claude Code1 Skill

By BurukalaManiReethikaLicense: MIT37 GitHub starsUpdated 3 months ago

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Claude Code
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1 skill or MCP entry
Source updated
Jun 28, 2026
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Install karpathy-code-guidelines for Claude Code

Installs for the current user
claude plugin marketplace add IchenDEV/agent-plugin-mkt
claude plugin marketplace update agent-plugin-marketplace
claude plugin install karpathy-code-guidelines@agent-plugin-marketplace

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Claude Code. They add and refresh the PluginsMP catalog, then install this plugin.

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/BurukalaManiReethika/Karpathy-Inspired-Claude-Code-Guidelines

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The repository root is the plugin root.

Plugin files

karpathy-code-guidelines/
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
└── skills/karpathy-guidelines/SKILL.md

Included Skills1

karpathy-guidelinesskills/karpathy-guidelines/SKILL.md

Six principles for better Claude Code behavior — think before coding, keep it simple, make surgical changes, define success criteria, reproduce bugs before fixing, and surface tradeoffs. Derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.

Plugin manifests1

.claude-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "karpathy-code-guidelines",
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "description": "Six Karpathy-inspired principles that stop Claude Code from making silent assumptions, overengineering, doing drive-by refactoring, and patching bugs blindly.",
  "author": {
    "name": "BurukalaManiReethika",
    "url": "https://github.com/BurukalaManiReethika"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "source": "./skills/karpathy-guidelines",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/BurukalaManiReethika/Karpathy-Inspired-Claude-Code-Guidelines",
  "keywords": [
    "karpathy",
    "claude-code",
    "guidelines",
    "best-practices",
    "coding-agent"
  ],
  "category": "development"
}

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