karpathy

karpathy is a skill for Claude Code from jchildree/Claud-itect-Skill. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,358 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A coding workflow based on Andrej Karpathy’s guidance: think through the task, keep solutions simple, make small targeted edits, and define how success will be checked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan non-trivial coding tasks, guide implementation, and review recent changes against the intended result.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unnecessary code changes and unclear implementation work by requiring a concrete plan and verifiable outcome before complex tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to plan non-trivial coding tasks, guide implementation, and review recent changes against the intended result.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jchildree/claud-itect-skill/karpathy
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 jchildree/Claud-itect-Skill --skill karpathy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jchildree/Claud-itect-Skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jchildree/claud-itect-skill/karpathy/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jchildree/claud-itect-skill/karpathy)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jchildree/claud-itect-skill/karpathy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jchildree/claud-itect-skill/karpathy/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for karpathy

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jchildree/claud-itect-skill/karpathy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jchildree/claud-itect-skill/karpathy.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,358 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00100 $0.01358
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00679
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00136

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5488427bdada, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

karpathy 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 12d 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.

skills/karpathy/SKILL.md · 179 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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. 12d ago First seen · 179 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 5488427bdada

Subscribe to this mod's changes

karpathy is a skill published in the GitHub repository jchildree/Claud-itect-Skill (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,358 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

swiss-knife

Umbrella router for small, focused CLI tools: minimax-cli for MiniMax media/TTS/vision; vision for image OCR/critique; listen for local audio transcription and music analysis; academic-research for papers, citation networks, and LaTeX; dj for music generation; token-usage for token/cost and API-call trend reports…

Lingtai-AI/lingtai · 152 tokens

weather

Get current weather and forecasts.

initializ/forge · 7 tokens

biomed-skill-creator

Create new biomedical skills or improve existing ones for the OpenBioMed toolkit. Use this skill when: (1) Creating a new skill from scratch, (2) Capturing a workflow as a reusable skill, (3) Automating a biomedical task, (4) Improving an existing skill. This skill guides through an interactive process: define intent…

PharMolix/OpenBioMed · 89 tokens

headless-bot

Nested swiss-knife reference for creating and operating a headless LingTai bot project without opening the TUI. Start from lingtai-tui spawn, then apply the relevant addon/MCP wiring, keep secrets in sidecar files, copy preset policy by referencing existing presets instead of copying preset JSON files, refresh or…

Lingtai-AI/lingtai · 87 tokens

biomed-skill-router

Find the most suitable skill for a given biomedical task. Use this skill when: (1) You are unsure which skill to use for a specific biomedical task, (2) You want to discover available skills for a particular domain, (3) You need to compare multiple skills for a given use case.

PharMolix/OpenBioMed · 67 tokens

energy-expert

Expert-level energy systems, smart grids, renewable energy, power management, and energy analytics. Use when the user mentions smart grid, renewable, power, utilities, or SCADA, or when the task involves Energy Systems, Smart Grid Technology, Standards and Protocols, or Smart Grid Operations.

personamanagmentlayer/pcl · 62 tokens