karpathy-guidelines

karpathy-guidelines is a cursor rule for coding agents from Saddss/cursor-skills. It costs 571 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

Coding guidelines for an AI language model that writes, reviews, or refactors code. They focus on small changes, clear assumptions, avoiding unnecessary complexity, and defining how success will be checked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when planning, writing, reviewing, or refactoring code.
Why use it?
They reduce common mistakes such as changing too much code, hiding assumptions, or accepting work without a verifiable result.

Cursor rule

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/saddss/cursor-skills/karpathy-guidelines
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Saddss/cursor-skills

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for karpathy-guidelines

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/saddss/cursor-skills/karpathy-guidelines"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/saddss/cursor-skills/karpathy-guidelines.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 571 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 571 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00571 $0.00571
Opus 5 $0.00285 $0.00285
Sonnet 5 $0.00114 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00057 $0.00057

Measured 4d ago against content hash 259cf32ac1a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

karpathy-guidelines scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

rules/karpathy-guidelines.mdc · 71 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 71 lines · 571 tokens per session scan A 259cf32ac1a4

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karpathy-guidelines is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Saddss/cursor-skills (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), with no licence file. It adds 571 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.