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Andrej Karpathy Skills Hermes — AI skill for Claude Code

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Hermes port of Karpathy-inspired LLM coding guidelines — SKILL.md + examples.

How to install Andrej Karpathy Skills Hermes

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open interfluve-wav/andrej-karpathy-skills-hermes and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Andrej Karpathy Skills Hermes does

Hermes port of Karpathy-inspired LLM coding guidelines — SKILL.md + examples.

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README

Hermes research & Karpathy guidelines skill

**Repository:** [github.com/interfluve-wav/andrej-karpathy-skills-hermes](https://github.com/interfluve-wav/andrej-karpathy-skills-hermes)

This repository contains a **Hermes**-formatted skill adapted from [multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills](https://github.com/multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills) (MIT): behavioral guidelines derived from [Andrej Karpathy's observations](https://x.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876) on common LLM coding pitfalls.

Repository layout

andrej-karpathy-skills-hermes/
├── Karpathy-Hermes-Skill/          ← ship this directory (rename on install; see below)
│   ├── SKILL.md
│   └── references/
│       └── EXAMPLES.md
├── Karpathy Guidelines - Hermes Adaptation.md
├── README.md
└── LICENSE

Karpathy guidelines (Hermes)


Skill package	`Karpathy-Hermes-Skill/`
Skill id	`karpathy-guidelines` (in `SKILL.md` frontmatter)

Install (Hermes)

From a clone of this repo:

git clone https://github.com/interfluve-wav/andrej-karpathy-skills-hermes.git
cd andrej-karpathy-skills-hermes
mkdir -p ~/.hermes/skills/software-development
cp -R Karpathy-Hermes-Skill ~/.hermes/skills/software-development/karpathy-guidelines

If you already have the repo locally, only the `mkdir` / `cp` lines are needed:

mkdir -p ~/.hermes/skills/software-development
cp -R Karpathy-Hermes-Skill ~/.hermes/skills/software-development/karpathy-guidelines

Result on disk:

~/.hermes/skills/software-development/karpathy-guidelines/
├── SKILL.md
└── references/
    └── EXAMPLES.md

Adjust `~/.hermes/skills/...` if your Hermes install uses a different base path.

Skill files

Path	Purpose
`Karpathy-Hermes-Skill/SKILL.md`	Main skill (YAML frontmatter + four principles)
`Karpathy-Hermes-Skill/references/EXAMPLES.md`	Long-form before/after examples