A comprehensive collection of AI coding guidelines curated from Andrej Karpathy's public writings, talks, and social media posts. Distills the legendary AI researcher's hard-won wisdom on building reliable AI systems, debugging neural networks, and writing clean ML code into an actionable skill for Claude Code and other AI assistants.
What Karpathy Guidelines can do for your AI workflow
Comprehensive collection of ai directly from your Cursor conversation
Works across Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini CLI β install once, use everywhere
Supports guidelines, best-practices, karpathy, ml and more
One-command installation β no complex setup required
Combine with other skills to build powerful multi-step AI workflows
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Karpathy Guidelines extends your AI assistant with the ability to a comprehensive collection of AI coding guidelines curated from Andrej Karpathy's public writings, talks, and social media posts. Distills the legendary AI researcher's hard-won wisdom on building reliable AI systems, debugging neural networks, and writing clean ML code into an actionable skill for Claude Code and other AI assistants. Rather than leaving your conversation to handle this manually, you can ask your Cursor agent directly β and it will take care of the task end-to-end, using Karpathy Guidelines as its underlying capability.
Karpathy Guidelines works across Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini CLI through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) β an open standard that lets AI clients share tools and skills without lock-in. This makes it especially practical for teams and individuals working with guidelines and best-practices. Because MCP is platform-agnostic by design, you install Karpathy Guidelines once and it becomes available across all your AI clients. Whether you're working in Cursor for focused sessions or Claude Code for integrated workflows, the skill behaves consistently.
Getting started with Karpathy Guidelines takes about two minutes. Place the skill at `~/.claude/skills/karpathy-guidelines/` (personal, all projects) or `.claude/skills/karpathy-guidelines/` (project-specific), then restart your AI client. From that point, typing `/karpathy-guidelines` in any conversation activates it, or the AI will use it on its own when it detects a relevant request.
Karpathy Guidelines is a community-contributed AI productivity skill available through DiscoverAISkills. The source code is open on GitHub β you can inspect it, contribute fixes, or fork it to adapt the skill for your specific setup. Like all skills on DiscoverAISkills, it is free to install and use. The broader AI skills ecosystem continues to expand as developers contribute new capabilities across categories like developer tools, data analysis, writing, automation, and more.
Place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/karpathy-guidelines/ for personal use (all projects), or .claude/skills/karpathy-guidelines/ for project-specific use. Restart your AI client, then invoke with /karpathy-guidelines or let the AI discover it automatically.
Karpathy Guidelines supports Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini CLI. It integrates seamlessly with these AI platforms to extend their capabilities.
Karpathy Guidelines is free to install. Check the repository for licensing information.
A comprehensive collection of AI coding guidelines curated from Andrej Karpathy's public writings, talks, and social media posts. Distills the legendary AI researcher's hard-won wisdom on building reliable AI systems, debugging neural networks, and writing clean ML code into an actionable skill for Claude Code and other AI assistants.
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Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install karpathy-guidelinesOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install karpathy-guidelinesβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/karpathy-guidelines/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.
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