feat: add karpathy coding discipline guidelines#4
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…karpathy-skills Four principles (Think Before Coding, Simplicity First, Surgical Changes, Goal-Driven Execution) addressing common LLM coding pitfalls. Sourced from multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills (MIT), itself distilled from Karpathy's public observations. Doc lives in docs/ so CLAUDE.md can @-import a tight summary while keeping the full reference one click away.
…rules Adds a four-bullet 'Coding Discipline (Karpathy)' section between Approach Rules and GitHub Workflow with an @-import to docs/karpathy-guidelines.md. Mirrors the existing pattern used for github-workflow, mcp-reference, etc. Complements existing approach rules rather than duplicating them — adds explicit guardrails against over-engineering and drive-by edits that the current rules don't spell out.
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Adds a Karpathy-derived coding discipline section to the global
CLAUDE.md.Why
Andrej Karpathy's public observations on LLM coding pitfalls (wrong assumptions, over-engineering, drive-by edits, weak success criteria) line up with the gaps in the current Approach Rules. multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills distills these into four principles under MIT — worth merging into the setup we publish.
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docs/karpathy-guidelines.md— full four-principle reference (Think Before Coding, Simplicity First, Surgical Changes, Goal-Driven Execution) with attribution to the upstream repo and Karpathy's original post.CLAUDE.md— new "Coding Discipline (Karpathy)" section between Approach Rules and GitHub Workflow: four headline bullets plus an@docs/karpathy-guidelines.mdimport. Follows the same pattern used forgithub-workflow.md,mcp-reference.md,skills-reference.md, etc.Why not just copy
CLAUDE.mdfrom upstreamTheir install methods are (a) a Claude Code plugin, or (b)
curltheirCLAUDE.mdover our own. Both fight our existing structure. The doc-import pattern keeps the rules first-class in our setup, attributes the source cleanly, and avoids a runtime dependency.Verification
grep -n "Karpathy" CLAUDE.mdshows the new section is loaded.@docs/karpathy-guidelines.mdresolves on session start (matches the pattern of the other@docs/*.mdimports already inCLAUDE.md).