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Andrej Karpathy Skills is a set of guidelines for Claude Code and Cursor that configures coding agents to avoid common LLM coding pitfalls. Its four principles are Think Before Coding, which requires explicit assumptions, clarification of ambiguity, and stated trade-offs; Simplicity First, which limits speculative features and unnecessary abstractions; Surgical Changes, which restricts edits to the requested scope; and Goal-Driven Execution, which turns tasks into verifiable success criteria and test-driven loops. The guidelines can be installed as a Claude Code plugin, copied into a project's CLAUDE.md file, or applied through the repository's Cursor rule. The repository is licensed under the MIT License.