SkillsBench is a benchmark for measuring how effectively AI agents use modular skills—folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources—to complete specialized tasks. It helps researchers and developers evaluate both skill quality and agent behavior, including tasks that require combining multiple skills. The catalogue’s skills and instructions are evaluated as part of this workflow.
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.
npx skills add benchflow-ai/skillsbench --skill react-best-practicesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benchflow-ai/skillsbenchWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/benchflow-ai/skillsbench/react-best-practices)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/benchflow-ai/skillsbench/react-best-practices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/benchflow-ai/skillsbench/react-best-practices.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00054 | $0.01297 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00027 | $0.00648 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00259 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00130 |
Grade A, and why
react-best-practices 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 4d 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.
This is a copy
70% identical to vercel-react-best-practices — 64 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Vercel React Best Practices
Comprehensive performance optimization guide for React and Next.js applications, maintained by Vercel. Contains 45 rules across 8 categories, prioritized by impact to guide automated refactoring and code generation.
When to Apply
Reference these guidelines when:
- Refactoring existing React/Next.js code
- Writing new React components or Next.js pages
- Fixing visual instability or layout shift (CLS) issues
- Preventing flickering when reading from localStorage or cookies
- Handling hydration mismatches with client-only data
- Optimizing font loading (FOIT/FOUT prevention)
- Adding proper dimensions to images and dynamic content
Rule Categories by Priority
| Priority | Category | Impact | Prefix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eliminating Waterfalls | CRITICAL | async- |
| 2 | Bundle Size Optimization | CRITICAL | bundle- |
| 3 | Server-Side Performance | HIGH | server- |
| 4 | Client-Side Data Fetching | MEDIUM-HIGH | client- |
| 5 | Re-render Optimization | MEDIUM | rerender- |
| 6 | Rendering Performance | MEDIUM | rendering- |
| 7 | JavaScript Performance | LOW-MEDIUM | js- |
| 8 | Advanced Patterns | LOW | advanced- |
Quick Reference
1. Eliminating Waterfalls (CRITICAL)
async-defer-await- Move await into branches where actually usedasync-parallel- Use Promise.all() for independent operationsasync-dependencies- Use better-all for partial dependenciesasync-api-routes- Start promises early, await late in API routesasync-suspense-boundaries- Use Suspense to stream content
2. Bundle Size Optimization (CRITICAL)
bundle-barrel-imports- Import directly, avoid barrel filesbundle-dynamic-imports- Use next/dynamic for heavy componentsbundle-defer-third-party- Load analytics/logging after hydrationbundle-conditional- Load modules only when feature is activatedbundle-preload- Preload on hover/focus for perceived speed
3. Server-Side Performance (HIGH)
What ships with it
49 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- rules/_sections.md 1.5 KB
- rules/_template.md 631 B
- rules/advanced-event-handler-refs.md 1.4 KB
- rules/advanced-use-latest.md 1.2 KB
- rules/async-api-routes.md 1.1 KB
- rules/async-defer-await.md 2.0 KB
- rules/async-dependencies.md 942 B
- rules/async-parallel.md 654 B
- rules/async-suspense-boundaries.md 2.4 KB
- rules/bundle-barrel-imports.md 2.3 KB
- rules/bundle-conditional.md 937 B
- rules/bundle-defer-third-party.md 920 B
- rules/bundle-dynamic-imports.md 791 B
- rules/bundle-preload.md 1.1 KB
- rules/client-event-listeners.md 1.9 KB
- rules/client-localstorage-schema.md 1.9 KB
- rules/client-passive-event-listeners.md 1.6 KB
- rules/client-swr-dedup.md 1.1 KB
- rules/js-batch-dom-css.md 1.9 KB
- rules/js-cache-function-results.md 1.9 KB
- rules/js-cache-property-access.md 532 B
- rules/js-cache-storage.md 1.6 KB
- rules/js-combine-iterations.md 753 B
- rules/js-early-exit.md 1.1 KB
- rules/js-hoist-regexp.md 1.0 KB
- rules/js-index-maps.md 837 B
- rules/js-length-check-first.md 1.7 KB
- rules/js-min-max-loop.md 2.0 KB
- rules/js-set-map-lookups.md 532 B
- rules/js-tosorted-immutable.md 1.7 KB
- rules/rendering-activity.md 564 B
- rules/rendering-animate-svg-wrapper.md 1.2 KB
- rules/rendering-conditional-render.md 980 B
- rules/rendering-content-visibility.md 815 B
- rules/rendering-hoist-jsx.md 1.0 KB
- rules/rendering-hydration-no-flicker.md 2.2 KB
- rules/rendering-svg-precision.md 588 B
- rules/rerender-defer-reads.md 973 B
- rules/rerender-dependencies.md 824 B
- rules/rerender-derived-state.md 724 B
- rules/rerender-functional-setstate.md 2.9 KB
- rules/rerender-lazy-state-init.md 2.0 KB
- rules/rerender-memo.md 1.1 KB
- rules/rerender-transitions.md 1.0 KB
- rules/server-after-nonblocking.md 2.0 KB
- rules/server-cache-lru.md 1.3 KB
- rules/server-cache-react.md 2.2 KB
- rules/server-parallel-fetching.md 1.5 KB
- rules/server-serialization.md 996 B
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 125 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 66e4e2f0be45
react-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository benchflow-ai/skillsbench (1,748 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,297 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 70% identical to vercel-react-best-practices, differing in 64 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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