Karpathy Tips Principle Skill Pack: 216,000 Stars, a page of CLAUDE.md, specializing in AI coding "self-determination"Karpathy 提示原则技能包：21.6 万 Star 的一页 CLAUDE.md，专治 AI 写码「自作主张」

Think Before Coding: If you have to speak out, if you are confused, stop. If you have multiple understandings on the table for you to choose from, never just pick one and run away.

Simplicity First: Don’t write functions that no one wants, don’t create abstractions for single use, and rewrite 200 lines when they can be reduced to 50 lines.

Surgical Changes: Only the code that must be moved is moved, and every line of change can be traced back to your requirements; if irrelevant dead code is found, it will only be reminded and not deleted.

Goal-Driven Execution: Translate "fix this bug" into "write a recurrence test first and then let it pass", and use verifiable success criteria to let the model cycle to reach the target.

Karpathy's original words are: "LLM is very good at looping towards clear goals. Don't tell it what to do, give it success criteria, and then watch it run." This document is an engineering of this sentence.

The warehouse provides an effect self-inspection checklist: there are no redundant changes in the diff, clarification that problems occur before implementation, and PR clean and minimized—just use these three items for acceptance after installation.

Claude Code plug-in method (recommended): In the session, first /plugin marketplace add forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills, then /plugin install andrej-karpathy-skills@karpathy-skills, one installation will take effect globally.

Project-level method: curl -o CLAUDE.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills/main/CLAUDE.md, incorporating the four principles into the project's own rules. You can also directly download the source code package packaged by this site, decompress it and use it.

The download button provides the main branch source code package (only 19 KB), which contains English and Chinese bilingual README, CLAUDE.md and Cursor rule files. The size is small enough to be included in every project.

This guideline is "caution first". It would be too heavy to go through the entire process to correct a typo. Trivial tasks can only be done by judgment. MIT license, freely merged with the project's own rules.