karpathy-principles skillA
karpathy-principles is agent-read markdown (skill) from athola/claude-night-market: Pre-implementation gate covering think-first, simplicity, surgical edits, and verifiable goals. Use when starting implementation to verify the approach..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
> The models make wrong assumptions on your behalf and > just run along with them without checking. They don't > manage their confusion, don't seek clarifications, > don't surface inconsistencies, don't present > tradeoffs, don't push back when they should. > > (Andrej Karpathy, on agentic coding failure modes) ## What This Is A four-principle contract for reducing the most common LLM coding pitfalls. Compact entry-point. Each principle has a deeper-dive skill in night-market; this skill is the index, not the encyclopedia. Derivation: distilled by Forrest Chang (forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills, MIT) from Karpathy's observations. Full attribution in `references/source-attribution.md`. ## When To Use - Before starting any coding task larger than a typo - During code review, to name the failure mode you see - After writing a diff, to self-audit before claiming done - When training a junior engineer to read agent diffs ## When NOT to Use These principles bias toward caution over speed. For cases listed in `modules/tradeoff-acknowledgment.md`, use judgment: trivial fixes, exploratory spikes, documentation-only edits, and time-boxed prototypes. ## The Four Principles …
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How to install
mdr add athola/claude-night-market/karpathy-principles@git:20260713.f98719bmdr add athola/claude-night-market/karpathy-principles@sha256:b5e5e4c133a0f404Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
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| git:20260713.f98719b latest | 2026-07-13 | f98719b | 8,079 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260601.8d67212 | 2026-06-01 | 8d67212 | 8,079 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260531.36e7806 | 2026-05-31 | 36e7806 | 8,083 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260529.62f598e | 2026-05-29 | 62f598e | 7,393 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260521.6f5c7d9 | 2026-05-21 | 6f5c7d9 | 7,391 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
athola/claude-night-market · 338 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch master
API
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