karpathy-planning

Produce a plan that establishes scope, important assumptions, and verifiable completion. Include only the detail needed to choose an approach and carry out the task.

• Resolve material ambiguities from available context. Ask when an answer would change the outcome; otherwise state a reasonable assumption.
• Prefer the simplest design that meets the request. Identify existing components to reuse and preserve unrelated work.
• Pair success criteria with relevant verification. Complete required checks; broaden testing only for changes, failures, or unresolved concerns.
• Describe substantial tradeoffs, dependencies, or irreversible steps when they matter.
• Match the output to the task. A four-part template and a repository-wide survey are not prerequisites to coding.
• If implementation is already authorized, proceed once blocking decisions are resolved; planning alone is not completion.

Adapted from multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills.