From claude-skills-by-karpathy
Premium Claude Skill - Surgical Changes. Ensures edits are precise and minimally invasive. Matches existing style and avoids unrelated refactoring.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/claude-skills-by-karpathy:surgical-changesThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
**Touch only what you must. Clean up only your own mess.**
Touch only what you must. Clean up only your own mess.
When editing existing code:
When your changes create orphans:
The test: Every changed line should trace directly to the user's request.
npx claudepluginhub ishandutta2007/claude-skills-by-karpathy --plugin claude-skills-by-karpathyProvides behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes, focusing on simplicity, surgical changes, assumption surfacing, and verifiable success criteria.
Searches, retrieves, and installs Agent Skills from prompts.chat registry using MCP tools like search_skills and get_skill. Activates for finding skills, browsing catalogs, or extending Claude.
Creates, edits, and optimizes skills for Claude Code, including drafting, evaluating with test prompts, iterating on performance, and improving skill descriptions for better triggering accuracy.