coco-research/coco · skills/karpathy-guidelines/SKILL.md

karpathy-guidelines skillA

karpathy-guidelines is agent-read markdown (skill) from coco-research/coco: 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..

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.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add coco-research/coco/karpathy-guidelines@git:20260802.1479e32
Exact content
mdr add coco-research/coco/karpathy-guidelines@sha256:659b0e1bc06d344a

Pin 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:20260802.1479e32 latest2026-08-02 1479e32 2,539 BA view · diff
git:20260731.b99da902026-07-31 b99da90 2,518 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2539 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

coco-research/coco · 280 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-17 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3evomr3hzimxzya4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coco-research/coco/karpathy-guidelines
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/659b0e1bc06d344a2a702f443687d0a0db9e283b9bea2d3b5e0a661f3b89e245

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