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karpathy-guidelines skillA

karpathy-guidelines is agent-read markdown (skill) from xenodeve/xeno-skills: 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 xenodeve/xeno-skills/karpathy-guidelines@git:20260819.9fd2603
Exact content
mdr add xenodeve/xeno-skills/karpathy-guidelines@sha256:3cf7c7357122a8b9

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

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260819.9fd2603 latest2026-08-19 9fd2603 5,192 BA view · diff
git:20260819.6b57f482026-08-19 6b57f48 4,481 BA view · diff
git:20260812.55470892026-08-12 5547089 3,764 BA view · diff
git:20260715.49680d12026-07-15 49680d1 2,518 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.

Source

GitHub

xenodeve/xeno-skills · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dtzpasg6gpqfkmfj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=xenodeve/xeno-skills/karpathy-guidelines
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3cf7c7357122a8b92bad717e83f3dd6ad81aeffbaa6b353560607bf3e865659a