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karpathy-guidelines
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Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring code to avoid overcomplication, make surgical changes, surface assumptions, and define verifiable success criteria.
Why this score
This repo hosts 7 skills, so its 93 stars are split between them (about 13 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 60/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 4030574fc743, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
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Alternatives
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onekarpathy-guidelines youdotcom-oss/agent-skills · Skill | 60 | ★ 93 | ≈60 always | 22d ago |
| karpathy gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills · Skill Both about karpathy | 51 | ★ 175 | ≈27 always | 4mo ago |
| andrej-karpathy-skills seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills · Skill Both about karpathy and verifiable | 57 | ★ 73 | ≈49 always | 16d ago |
| council-karpathy 0xNyk/council-of-high-intelligence · Subagent Both about karpathy | 73 | ★ 4.7k | ≈38 in chat | 16d ago |
| karpathy-llm-wiki Astro-Han/karpathy-llm-wiki · Skill Both about karpathy | 71 | ★ 2.5k | ≈66 always | 3mo ago |
| cs-karpathy-reviewer alirezarezvani/claude-skills · Subagent Both about karpathy and coding | 74 | ★ 28k | ≈85 in chat | 2mo ago |