multi-kernel-analyzer

A system-level GPU performance-analysis helper that studies interactions between compute, communication, and memory-copy operations. It checks host-device transfers, communication that blocks computation, and whether computation overlaps with communication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate D2H/H2D memory transfers, communication blocking GPU work, and missing compute-communication overlap in profiler traces.
Why use it?
It helps find delays caused by the GPU pipeline as a whole rather than by one kernel. These issues can include unnecessary data movement, waiting for communication, or missed opportunities to run tasks at the same time.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/amd/skills/multi-kernel-analyzer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amd/skills
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,698 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.02698
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01349
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00540
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00270

Measured 2d ago against content hash f8939cc967fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

multi-kernel-analyzer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/tracelens-analysis-orchestrator/agents/multi-kernel-analyzer.md · 273 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 273 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: multi-kernel-analyzer description: Analyze cross-cutting multi-kernel issues including memcpy D2H/H2D patterns, communication blocking compute, and compute/communication overlap. System-level analysis tier. model: claude-opus-4-7-high

Multi-Kernel Issue Analysis Subagent

Analyze cross-cutting multi-kernel issues that affect the GPU pipeline as a whole. This is a system-level analysis -- it examines interactions between kernel types (compute, communication, memory copy) rather than individual kernel efficiency.

Three analysis areas:

  1. Memory Copy Patterns -- High occurrence of D2H/H2D transfers indicating unnecessary data movement
  2. Communication Blocking Compute -- Communication operations that block GPU compute kernels
  3. Compute/Communication Overlap -- Lack of overlap between communication and compute, missed pipelining opportunities

Context Passing

When invoked by the orchestrator, you will receive the following context:

Required context provided by orchestrator:

  • output_dir: Base analysis output directory
  • prefix: Command prefix from <output_dir>/cache/cmd_prefix.txt — contains a template with {CMD} placeholder; substitute {CMD} with the actual command

Input files (pre-computed by orchestrator):

  1. <output_dir>/category_data/multi_kernel_data.json - Pre-computed memcpy/communication/overlap data
  2. <output_dir>/metadata/multi_kernel_metadata.json - Platform specs and GPU utilization
  3. <output_dir>/category_data/category_manifest.json - Contains gpu_utilization metrics

Output file you must write:

  • <output_dir>/system_findings/multi_kernel_findings.md

Error Handling

If multi_kernel_data.json is missing:

  1. Read gpu_utilization from category_data/category_manifest.json
  2. Report based on exposed_memcpy_time_percent and exposed_comm_time_percent
  3. Note limitations in findings

Read the full file on GitHub · 273 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 273 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f8939cc967fe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

multi-kernel-analyzer is an agent published in the GitHub repository amd/skills (306 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,698 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Related

Other agents, from other repositories

Demonstrate

Agent for demonstrating VS Code features.

microsoft/vscode · 10 tokens

playwright-test-generator

Use this agent when you need to create automated browser tests using Playwright Examples: Context: User wants to generate a test for the test plan item.

microsoft/playwright · 151 tokens

.NET-Notebook-Migration-Agent

Expert .NET and documentation transformation agent that migrates Polyglot Jupyter notebooks into clean Markdown and companion .NET sample code.

microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners · 33 tokens

AVM Owner Triage

Triage open GitHub issues across the Azure Verified Modules (AVM) repos an owner maintains. Splits the backlog into a Copilot-delegatable pile and a human pile, produces a report with a delegation ratio, and never comments or assigns without explicit user approval.

github/awesome-copilot · 61 tokens

Ultimate Transparent Thinking Beast Mode

Agent "Ultimate Transparent Thinking Beast Mode" from github/awesome-copilot, covering quantum cognitive architecture, phase 2: adversarial intelligence & red-team analysis, phase 3: implementation & iterative refinement and phase 4: comprehensive verification & completion.

github/awesome-copilot · 11 tokens

code-reviewer

Performs thorough code reviews for the Notebooks in the Cookbook repo, focusing on Python/Jupyter best practices, and project-specific standards. Use this agent proactively after writing any significant code changes, especially when modifying notebooks, Github Actions, and scripts.

anthropics/claude-cookbooks · 52 tokens