Use Case
Karpathy Guidelines is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. 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. This guide walks you through installing Karpathy Guidelines, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Karpathy Guidelines: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install karpathy-guidelines
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to ai agent to trigger Karpathy Guidelines
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Karpathy Guidelines with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Karpathy Guidelines
Help me get started with Karpathy Guidelines
What can Karpathy Guidelines do for my ai agent workflow?
Show me an example of using Karpathy Guidelines
Select your agent
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.