Taming AI coding agents that forget and overcomplicate

What it does This repository is a plugin marketplace and configuration collection for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI. It bundles hooks, skills, and cross-tool compatible guidelines aimed at the specific failure modes Andrej Karpathy described: agents that forget file paths, skip clarifications, and leave behind bloated abstractions. The core value is adding structure—like sticky session IDs, compaction memory rules, and categorized telemetry—where the base tools leave gaps.

The interesting bit The intelligent-compact plugin is the standout: it intercepts Claude Code’s session summarizer and forces it to preserve file paths, confirmed root causes, and open questions that prose summaries usually round away. That’s a surgical fix for a genuinely annoying product-level quirk, not just another dotfile.

Key highlights

• intelligent-compact preserves investigation state across Claude Code’s auto-summarization; other tools lack the required hook.
• claude-telemetry-hooks adds sticky per-project session IDs and categorizes rejection reasons for actual dashboard analysis.
• Repackages official Anthropic and OpenAI office-document skills (PDF, Excel, Word, PowerPoint) as installable plugins.
• Cross-tool compatibility via symlinked guideline files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md).
• Includes python-skills drawing from PEP 8, the Google Style Guide, and Effective Python.

Caveats

• Several plugins are Claude Code-specific because they rely on hooks other tools simply don’t expose yet.
• The office skills are largely repackaged official assets from Anthropic and OpenAI, not original implementations.
• The repository description advertises Kimi, MiniMax, and GLM API support, but the README’s visible plugin documentation centers on Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI without showing how those other providers are wired in.

Verdict Worth a look if you live in Claude Code or Codex daily and are tired of context amnesia. Skip it if you want a universal, tool-agnostic framework—this is mostly well-organized glue and targeted patches for specific ecosystems.