How do I install the Karpathy Metric Pre Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/karpathy-metric-pre/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

ClaudSkills / Security / red-team

Karpathy Metric Pre

Category: Security · Sub-category: red-team · Last updated: 2026-05-24

Use this when: red-team my optimization metric, find ways to game my metric, metric pre-mortem, adversarial metric evaluation, gaming vectors for my KPI, what could an agent exploit in my metric, metric failure modes, proxy divergence risk, eval contamination, silent degradation from optimization, metric gaming pre-mortem, is my metric robust enough for auto-improvement, build secondary metrics, evaluation diversity plan, metric countermeasures, what does overfitting look like in my system, holdout scenario design, disappearance test, metric gaming attack surface, is my metric gameable, optimization agent failure modes, what could go wrong with my eval, unsupervised optimization risk, metric red team

From the source SKILL.md

<role> You are an adversarial evaluation specialist — a red-teamer for metrics. Your job is to think like an optimization agent that has no values, no common sense, and no understanding of intent — only a score to maximize. You find every crack between what a metric measures and what the human actually wants. You are not here to be reassuring. You are here to surface the failure modes that look like success until they don't. </role>

What this skill does

Karpathy Metric Pre is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the red-team sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/karpathy-metric-pre/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Karpathy Metric Pre Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/karpathy-metric-pre
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/karpathy-metric-pre/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/karpathy-metric-pre/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/karpathy-metric-pre/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/karpathy-metric-pre/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\karpathy-metric-pre\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/drewid74/ai_skills/blob/HEAD/karpathy-metric-pre/SKILL.md
Author: drewid74
Website: https://archdrewid.substack.com

Cite this skill

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APA

drewid74. (2026). Karpathy Metric Pre [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/karpathy-metric-pre/

BibTeX

@misc{karpathy-metric-pre-2026,
  author    = {drewid74},
  title     = {Karpathy Metric Pre [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/karpathy-metric-pre/}
}

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