Use Case
Karpathy Guidelines isn't just for solo use β teams can share skills and build consistent AI workflows across the organization. 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 covers how to deploy Karpathy Guidelines for your team, standardize prompts, and create shared workflows that everyone can use.
Install Karpathy Guidelines in your project directory: .claude/skills/karpathy-guidelines/
Commit the skill folder to your repository so the whole team has access
Document your team's standard prompts in a shared README
Use Karpathy Guidelines in code reviews, standups, and planning sessions
Iterate: collect feedback from the team and refine your prompts
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Karpathy Guidelines
How can my team use Karpathy Guidelines together?
Set up Karpathy Guidelines for our project so everyone can use it
Create a shared workflow using Karpathy Guidelines for our team
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.