# Karpathy Planning

> Develop a scoped implementation plan when explicitly asked to plan a coding task. Use grill-me for a deliberate design interview.

- Skill: `wilbeibi/karpathy-planning` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add wilbeibi/karpathy-planning`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/wilbeibi/karpathy-planning/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Productivity
- Author: wilbeibi (https://skillmd.com/u/wilbeibi)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/wilbeibi/karpathy-planning

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# karpathy-planning

Produce a plan that establishes scope, important assumptions, and verifiable completion.
Include only the detail needed to choose an approach and carry out the task.

- Resolve material ambiguities from available context. Ask when an answer would change the outcome; otherwise state a reasonable assumption.
- Prefer the simplest design that meets the request. Identify existing components to reuse and preserve unrelated work.
- Pair success criteria with relevant verification. Complete required checks; broaden testing only for changes, failures, or unresolved concerns.
- Describe substantial tradeoffs, dependencies, or irreversible steps when they matter.
- Match the output to the task. A four-part template and a repository-wide survey are not prerequisites to coding.
- If implementation is already authorized, proceed once blocking decisions are resolved; planning alone is not completion.

Adapted from [multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills](https://github.com/multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills).