norm-analyzer

A specialist agent that analyzes normalization operations such as BatchNorm, LayerNorm, GroupNorm, and InstanceNorm for memory-bandwidth efficiency.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reads pre-grouped operation data, hardware metadata, and command settings, then produces findings for forward or backward normalization analysis in standalone or comparative reports.
Why use it?
It focuses performance analysis on operations that may spend much of their time moving data between memory and the processor.

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/norm-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 1,604 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 $0.01604
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00802
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00160

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3f030eb55318, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

norm-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/norm-analyzer.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: norm-analyzer description: Analyze normalization operations (BatchNorm, LayerNorm, GroupNorm, etc.) for memory bandwidth efficiency. Use when orchestrator needs norm category analysis. model: claude-opus-4-7-high

Normalization Analysis Subagent

Analyze normalization operations (BatchNorm, LayerNorm, GroupNorm, InstanceNorm) for memory-bandwidth efficiency. Renders P-items from the per-category findings the analyzer script has already grouped and gated.


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
  • comparison_scope: standalone (default) or comparative
  • cat: norm_fwd or norm_bwd

Input files (pre-computed by orchestrator):

  1. <output_dir>/category_data/<cat>_ops.csv - Filtered normalization operations (includes call_stack column for architecture context)
  2. <output_dir>/metadata/<cat>_metadata.json - Hardware specs

Output file you must write:

  • <output_dir>/category_findings/<cat>_findings.md

Error Handling

If category data files are missing:

  1. Write a findings file noting: "No normalization operations found in trace"
  2. Return gracefully

If analysis script fails:

  1. Write a findings file with Status: ERROR
  2. CRITICAL: Do NOT manually analyze the raw CSV data
  3. CRITICAL: Do NOT provide any bottleneck findings

Language Guidelines

Use vendor-agnostic terminology:

  • "GPU kernels" not "CUDA kernels"
  • "native normalization kernels" not vendor-specific names
  • Focus on operation semantics, not vendor implementation details

Analysis Workflow

Step 1: Run Analysis Script

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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 · 165 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3f030eb55318

Subscribe to this mod's changes

norm-analyzer is an agent published in the GitHub repository amd/skills (306 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,604 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.

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