andrej-karpathy-skills SKILL.md skillA
andrej-karpathy-skills from seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills/andrej-karpathy-skills@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills
- Path
openclaw-skills/andrej-karpathy-skills/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Jun 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 3, 2026
- Size
- 8,428 bytes
- Repository stars
- 73
- License
- MIT
Karpathy-inspired coding discipline for AI agents: think before coding, keep changes simple, edit surgically, and define verifiable success criteria before implementation.
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
# Andrej Karpathy Skills Use this skill to keep AI-assisted engineering grounded, simple, and verifiable. It is especially useful for backend, architecture, refactoring, debugging, migrations, and any task where an agent might overbuild, guess, or change unrelated code. The core idea is simple: do not let the model drift. Make assumptions explicit, prefer minimal changes, touch only what the request requires, and verify with concrete checks before calling the work done. ## When to Use - Writing backend code, API changes, migrations, data access logic, or architecture-sensitive code. - Refactoring code where accidental behavior changes are risky. - Debugging a production issue or a failing test. - Reviewing AI-generated code for overengineering, hidden assumptions, or missing verification. - Implementing a user request that is ambiguous, cross-cutting, or easy to over-scope. - Making changes in an unfamiliar codebase. - Working under constraints such as dirty git state, existing style, generated files, or ownership boundaries. - Producing a plan before code or a concise review after code. ## Skip When - The user explicitly asks for brainstorming without implementation. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills/andrej-karpathy-skills@sha256:c766537eecfb66b6The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_5fyvrhoalrmi4ptz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 3, 2026 and Jun 29, 2026, about one every 13 days.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-06-29 | f17e969 | 8,428 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-29 | df188c3 | 8,334 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-03 | d2faa08 | 8,367 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8428 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
seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills · 73 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5fyvrhoalrmi4ptz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills/andrej-karpathy-skills GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c766537eecfb66b685104596ea29be912e8dded1507c09d1b5894f685bc15d9d
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.