/karpathy-guidelines
Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring code to avoid overcomplication, make surgical changes, surface assumptions, and define verifiable success criteria.
$ npx -y skills add jdanigo/hydraia --skill karpathy-guidelines --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/karpathy-guidelines
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The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring code to avoid overcomplication, make surgical changes, surface assumptions, and define verifiable success criteria.
A personal agentic development harness for Claude Code. One command runs the entire feature pipeline: it collaborates with you on the design (brainstorm, approaches, spec), then builds autonomously — plan, execute, double-review, and verify with no per-step
Repo: jdanigo/hydraia
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- /adr
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Use when designing or reviewing an API surface — REST, GraphQL, or gRPC. Contract-first methodology: the contract artifact (OpenAPI 3.1, SDL, proto3) is written and reviewed BEFORE implementation, lives in the repo, and Phase 6 verifies implementation matches it.
Open skill - /banner-design
Design banners for social media, ads, website heroes, creative assets, and print. Multiple art direction options with AI-generated visuals. Actions: design, create, generate banner. Platforms: Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Google Display, website hero,
Open skill - /brainstorming
You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.
Open skill - /brand
Brand voice, visual identity, messaging frameworks, asset management, brand consistency. Activate for branded content, tone of voice, marketing assets, brand compliance, style guides.
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Ultra-compressed communication mode. Cuts token usage ~75% by speaking like caveman while keeping full technical accuracy. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default), ultra, wenyan-lite, wenyan-full, wenyan-ultra. Use when user says "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "use
Open skill