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.
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15 rules. 14 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 56 edited versions we read keep these.
0
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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Edited · 47
- ghostfolio/ghostfolio★ 9.6k100% same
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Wrote their own version · 12
- tev6/andrej-karpathy-skills-zhCN★ 17same name
- Sspacegray/andrej-karpathy-skills-codex★ 8same name
- richling98/karpathy-codex-skills★ 4same name
- hahuyhungdev/ai-coding-config★ 3same name
- Hotakus/hotakus-useful-skills★ 2same name
- thlaure/Signalist★ 2same name
- ahmadrishi/agentic-mahoraga★ 1same name
- audriusstat/execution-discipline★ 0same name
- BAKUGOS1/SkilledAgents-Toolkit★ 0same name
- EraserandRain/skills★ 0same name
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How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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