karpathy-principles SKILL.md skillA
karpathy-principles from athola/claude-night-market is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add athola/claude-night-market/karpathy-principles@git:20261023.bf6e922Pins git:20261023.bf6e922 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- athola/claude-night-market
- Path
plugins/imbue/skills/karpathy-principles/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261023.bf6e922, committed Oct 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 21, 2026
- Size
- 8,323 bytes
- Repository stars
- 348
- License
- MIT
Pre-implementation gate covering think-first, simplicity, surgical edits, and verifiable goals. Use when starting implementation to verify the approach.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file 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@sha256:6b01aeb9c6798efaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261023.bf6e922, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
athola/claude-night-market · 348 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch master
API
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