bench

bench is a command for coding agents from druide67/asiai. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,633 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A command-line benchmark for testing AI models side by side across local engines on Apple Silicon Macs. It uses standard prompts to measure output speed, first-response time, memory use, temperature, and power efficiency.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test coding, tool-use, reasoning, or long text generation; compare models and engines; check power use; export JSON; view history; or share results with a community database.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork when deciding which model or engine fits your Mac. Repeated runs and benchmark history make results easier to compare over time.

Command

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 commands/druide67/asiai/bench
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/druide67/asiai

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README.md
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Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,633 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00027 $0.01633
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00816
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00163

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9cb498b496ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

bench scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

| `--power` | Cross-validate power with sudo powermetrics (IOReport always-on) |
docs/commands/bench.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

asiai bench

Cross-engine benchmark with standardized prompts.

Usage

asiai bench [options]

Options

Option Description
-m, --model MODEL Model to benchmark (default: auto-detect)
-e, --engines LIST Filter engines (e.g., ollama,lmstudio,mlxlm)
-p, --prompts LIST Prompt types: code, tool_call, reasoning, long_gen
-r, --runs N Runs per prompt (default: 3, for median + stddev)
--power Cross-validate power with sudo powermetrics (IOReport always-on)
--context-size SIZE Context fill prompt: 4k, 16k, 32k, 64k
--export FILE Export results to JSON file
-H, --history PERIOD Show past benchmarks (e.g., 7d, 24h)
-Q, --quick Quick benchmark: 1 prompt (code), 1 run (~15 seconds)
--compare MODEL [MODEL...] Cross-model comparison (2–8 models, mutually exclusive with -m)
--card Generate a shareable benchmark card (SVG locally, PNG with --share)
--share Share results to community benchmark database

Example

asiai bench -m qwen3.5 --runs 3 --power
  Mac Mini M4 Pro — Apple M4 Pro  RAM: 64.0 GB (42% used)  Pressure: normal

Benchmark: qwen3.5

  Engine       tok/s (±stddev)    Tokens   Duration     TTFT       VRAM    Thermal
  ────────── ───────────────── ───────── ────────── ──────── ────────── ──────────
  lmstudio    72.6 ± 0.0 (stable)   435    6.20s    0.28s        —    nominal
  ollama      30.4 ± 0.1 (stable)   448   15.28s    0.25s   26.0 GB   nominal

  Winner: lmstudio (2.4x faster)
  Power: lmstudio 13.2W (5.52 tok/s/W) — ollama 16.0W (1.89 tok/s/W)

Prompts

Four standardized prompts test different generation patterns:

Name Tokens Tests
code 512 Structured code generation (BST in Python)
tool_call 256 JSON function calling / instruction following
reasoning 384 Multi-step math problem
long_gen 1024 Sustained throughput (bash script)

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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. 3d ago First seen · 170 lines · 27 tokens per session scan B 9cb498b496ee

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bench is a command published in the GitHub repository druide67/asiai (11 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,633 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.