Karpathy Coding Guidelines

What this skill does

Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding pitfalls, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations.

Karpathy Coding Guidelines is part of the Developer Tools category — developer tools that help your agent write, review, debug, and ship code. You can install it on its own or alongside other developer tools skills from the OpenClaw catalog.

How to install Karpathy Coding Guidelines

The easiest path is via the OpenClaw Easy desktop app — one click, no terminal required:

1. Download OpenClaw Easy for macOS or Windows (free, one-click installer, ~30 seconds).
2. Open the in-app Skills panel.
3. Search for karpathy-coding-guidelines and click Install.
4. The skill activates automatically when an incoming message matches its description.

Install from the command line

If you already run the OpenClaw CLI, add Karpathy Coding Guidelines with a single command:

openclaw skills add karpathy-coding-guidelines

This pulls karpathy-coding-guidelines from ClawHub and installs it into ~/.openclaw/skills/karpathy-coding-guidelines/. Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so the new skill is discovered.

How to use Karpathy Coding Guidelines

Once installed, Karpathy Coding Guidelines activates on its own: when an incoming message on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Feishu or Line matches the skill's description, your OpenClaw agent loads it and runs the workflow. You can also trigger it explicitly by describing the task in chat. No extra configuration is required after install.

Manual install (advanced)

If you prefer manual installation:

1. Click the Download .zip button above to grab karpathy-coding-guidelines-1.0.0.zip directly from our S3 mirror.
2. Unzip into ~/.openclaw/skills/karpathy-coding-guidelines/ (create the directory if it does not exist).
3. Restart OpenClaw Easy (or the OpenClaw CLI gateway) so the new skill is discovered.

Frequently asked questions

How do I install Karpathy Coding Guidelines?

Install Karpathy Coding Guidelines in the OpenClaw Easy desktop app by opening the Skills panel, searching for karpathy-coding-guidelines, and clicking Install. From a terminal you can run: openclaw skills add karpathy-coding-guidelines. Either way the skill is placed in ~/.openclaw/skills/karpathy-coding-guidelines/.

Is Karpathy Coding Guidelines free?

Yes. Karpathy Coding Guidelines is free and open-source, distributed under the Apache-2.0 license through ClawHub. No account or payment is required to download or run it.

What does Karpathy Coding Guidelines do?

Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding pitfalls, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations.

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