Hermes research & Karpathy guidelines skill

Repository: github.com/interfluve-wav/andrej-karpathy-skills-hermes

This repository contains a Hermes-formatted skill adapted from andrej-karpathy-skills (MIT): behavioral guidelines derived from Andrej Karpathy’s observations 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

Upstream

• Source project: forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills (MIT; same ideas, different agent packaging)
• This repo: Hermes SKILL.md layout, metadata, wikilinks to related skills, and install notes above.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. The adaptation retains compatibility with the upstream MIT license.