🧪 Karpathy Guidelines
This skill helps you apply Karpathy guidelines to coding tasks, prioritizing simplicity, surgical changes, and verifiable success criteria.
npx playbooks add skill forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills --skill karpathy-guidelines
About Karpathy Guidelines
The Karpathy Guidelines skill is a testing tool that assists developers in applying a set of guidelines to their coding tasks, emphasizing simplicity, targeted changes, and measurable success criteria. It connects to coding tasks to ensure that changes are made with a focus on clarity and effectiveness. A developer would use this skill when they want to ensure their code modifications are straightforward, efficient, and meet specific, verifiable standards.
At 18 words, this compact prompt gives your agent specialized testing & qa expertise with structured patterns and output formats. Install via CLI or copy the prompt below.
Use Cases
- Writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
- Setting up test coverage and CI pipelines
- Refactoring legacy code with confidence using tests
- Creating test plans and QA checklists
Example Prompts
System Prompt (18 words)
This skill helps you apply Karpathy guidelines to coding tasks, prioritizing simplicity, surgical changes, and verifiable success criteria.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Karpathy Guidelines?
Karpathy Guidelines is a free testing & qa skill for AI coding agents. This skill helps you apply Karpathy guidelines to coding tasks, prioritizing simplicity, surgical changes, and verifiable success criteria.. It provides a specialized system prompt that configures your agent with testing & qa expertise.
How do I use Karpathy Guidelines with Claude Code?
Run npx playbooks add skill forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills --skill karpathy-guidelines in your terminal to install Karpathy Guidelines into your Claude Code session. It works immediately after installation.
Which AI coding agents work with Karpathy Guidelines?
Karpathy Guidelines is compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Cline, and any AI agent that supports custom system prompts or .cursorrules files.
Is Karpathy Guidelines free to use?
Yes, Karpathy Guidelines is completely free and open source. The full source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills/tree/main/skills/karpathy-guidelines. You only need a subscription to the AI agent you use it with.
