Karpathy Guidelines

Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Adapted from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls and the upstream MIT-licensed karpathy-guidelines skill.

MANDATORY in AgentX: These four guidelines are NON-optional for every AgentX execution (coding, refactor, review, pipeline). Complete the "Self-Check Before Handoff" checklist before any handoff. See the always-on rule in .github/instructions/project-conventions.instructions.md.

Tradeoff: These guidelines bias toward caution over speed. The only exemption is a genuinely trivial change (single-line typo, obvious config rename) whose success criteria are self-evident.

When to Use

Load this skill when: