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Karpathy Guidelines

Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes, enforces simplicity, surgical changes, surface assumptions, and goal-driven execution with verifiable success criteria.

Author sendralt 5 stars Version 1.0.0 Updated
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Karpathy Guidelines — Agent Zero Plugin

An Agent Zero plugin that automatically injects Andrej Karpathy's behavioral coding guidelines into every conversation to reduce common LLM coding mistakes.

What It Does

When enabled, this plugin auto-injects four key behavioral guidelines into the system prompt:

  1. Think Before Coding — State assumptions, surface tradeoffs, ask when unclear
  2. Simplicity First — Minimum code, no speculative features or unnecessary abstractions
  3. Surgical Changes — Only touch what's necessary, match existing style
  4. Goal-Driven Execution — Define verifiable success criteria, loop until verified

Installation

  1. Clone this repo into your Agent Zero plugins directory:
    git clone https://github.com/sendralt/karpathy-guidelines /path/to/agent-zero/usr/plugins/karpathy-guidelines
  2. Go to Agent Zero Web UI → Settings → Plugins
  3. Find Karpathy Guidelines and toggle it on

Plugin Structure

karpathy-guidelines/
├── plugin.yaml          # Plugin metadata and config
├── hooks.py             # Install/uninstall lifecycle hooks
├── prompts/
│   └── default.md       # Auto-injected guidelines
└── README.md

License

MIT