andrej-karpathy-skills

andrej-karpathy-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AvalonLee/AstraCraft-Program. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,308 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of four guidelines for coding agents, based on observations about common problems when language models write code. The guidelines tell the agent to think first, keep code simple, make small changes, and work toward goals that can be checked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide an agent while planning and implementing coding tasks.
Why use it?
It helps reduce unnecessary edits, overly complex code, and changes that are difficult to verify.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to guide an agent while planning and implementing coding tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/avalonlee/astracraft-program/andrej-karpathy-skills
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AvalonLee/AstraCraft-Program --skill andrej-karpathy-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AvalonLee/AstraCraft-Program

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,308 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01308
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00654
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00131

Measured 10d ago against content hash 97ef3ee052d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

andrej-karpathy-skills scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 10d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -o CLAUDE.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills/main/CLAUDE.md
entries/dev-engineering/andrej-karpathy-skills/SKILL.md · 83 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. 10d ago First seen · 83 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 97ef3ee052d3

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andrej-karpathy-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository AvalonLee/AstraCraft-Program (2 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,308 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.