Karpathy Guardrails | Agent Skills Atlas

About this skill

Behavioral guardrails for Cavekit agents. Four principles — think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, goal-driven execution — that prevent over-engineering, silent assumptions, scope creep, and unfocused work. Every task-builder, reviewer, planner, and inspector must internalize these before writing a single line. Trigger phrases: "guardrails", "karpathy", "scope creep", "over-engineering", "stop adding features", "surgical fix".

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Category: General
Reported license: Apache-2.0
Listing language (estimated): English
Review status: Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility: Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.