karpathy-recipe SKILL.md skillA
karpathy-recipe from andersonlimahw/lemon-ai-hub is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add andersonlimahw/lemon-ai-hub/karpathy-recipe@git:20260614.2f67b30Pins git:20260614.2f67b30 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- andersonlimahw/lemon-ai-hub
- Path
plugins/karpathy-recipe/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260614.2f67b30, committed Jun 14, 2026
- Size
- 3,176 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Applies Karpathy's "A Recipe for Training Neural Networks" adapted to software engineering. Forces a minimum runnable baseline before optimizing, one knob at a time, with verifiable eval at the beginning. Use when implementing a new feature, doing a non-trivial refactor, integrating an external service, or when the user says "implement X from scratch", "how to start feature Y", "recipe", "incremental approach", "baseline first".
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
# karpathy-recipe Translation of [Recipe for Training Neural Networks](https://karpathy.github.io/2019/04/25/recipe/) to product features. Principle: **be paranoid, go slow, visualize everything**. ## Mandatory Flow ### 1. Become one with the data Before coding, read real data from the domain: - For a financial feature: 10 real transactions from `extratos_exemplo/` or from `financial_transactions` in staging - For AI: 5 examples of expected input/output from the user - List known edge cases (memory, ADRs, past issues) — do not invent them Output: 1 paragraph in the PR `## Data I looked at` with links/IDs. ### 2. Set up end-to-end skeleton + dumb baseline Implement the **complete path** with trivial logic first: - Server action returns a fixed mock - Repository returns `[]` - UI uses hardcoded data Validate that the entire pipeline runs (request → action → repo → DB → UI) before any real logic. **Do not optimize anything yet.** ### 3. Overfit the simplest case Next: make it work on **1 real input**, ignoring edge cases. Mock externals (Stripe, Belvo, OpenAI). Confirm expected logs/output. ### 4. Add one knob at a time …
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How to install
mdr add andersonlimahw/lemon-ai-hub/karpathy-recipe@sha256:192fa25ea5c56830The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260614.2f67b30, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 14, 2026.
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Source
andersonlimahw/lemon-ai-hub · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5rdu3ych4iqsi46i GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=andersonlimahw/lemon-ai-hub/karpathy-recipe GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/192fa25ea5c568306e73a33ca1b9b250593ac51d66ea244d56e2b91f36af9122
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