lighthouse

Instructions for auditing and improving website performance with Google Lighthouse, a tool that measures loading speed and related user-experience metrics. They define repeated mobile and desktop tests, visual checks, and an improvement loop.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to investigate page speed, Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), Interaction to Next Paint (INP), and Core Web Vitals, then retest after changes.
Why use it?
They make performance results more reliable by averaging multiple runs and require checking that visual changes do not introduce regressions. They also explain what to do when required browser or Lighthouse tools are missing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/darkroomengineering/cc-settings/lighthouse
Any agent
npx skills add darkroomengineering/cc-settings --skill lighthouse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darkroomengineering/cc-settings

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,540 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 $0.00061 $0.03540
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01770
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00708
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00354

Measured 2d ago against content hash b3ee54ea7557, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lighthouse 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/lighthouse/SKILL.md · 375 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 375 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lighthouse Optimization Loop

Set a product-neutral scratch root once:

LIGHTHOUSE_DIR="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/cc-settings-lighthouse"
mkdir -p "$LIGHTHOUSE_DIR"

Use the Chrome DevTools MCP only when the user configured it. Standalone Codex otherwise uses the Lighthouse CLI plus native/manual screenshots; if no visual capture path exists, stop before changing UI and report that visual regression verification is unavailable. This package does not auto-run unpinned registry MCP packages.

Method: 3 mobile + 3 desktop runs per audit, averaged for reliability. After each code change, re-audit and visually verify the page with the configured MCP or the stated manual fallback.


Setup

  1. Parse URL from $ARGUMENTS. If no URL, ask the user. Default: http://localhost:3000

  2. Verify prerequisites:

    lighthouse --version    # CLI must be installed for the batched 3x3 protocol
    

    If lighthouse is missing: npm install -g lighthouse If runs fail with a chrome-launcher error or every metric comes back NO_LCP/null, no system Chrome exists — find a real Chrome/Chromium binary (Chrome for Testing, Playwright's chromium-* — NOT chrome-headless-shell, which produces NO_LCP) and export CHROME_PATH=<binary> before the loop. Record which binary was used; a before/after comparison is only clean when both sides ran the same binary. Check whether the user configured the chrome-devtools MCP. Do not install or auto-run an unpinned registry MCP on their behalf.

  3. Create results directory:

    mkdir -p "$LIGHTHOUSE_DIR"
    
  4. Take baseline screenshots before any changes:

    • mcp__chrome-devtools__navigate_page (type: "url", url: <url>)
    • mcp__chrome-devtools__take_screenshot

    Describe the current layout, key elements, and visual state. This is your visual baseline — you will compare against it after every change to catch regressions.

  5. Confirm with user: Show the URL, confirm the dev server is running, ask if there are specific pages or routes to audit beyond the main URL.

Read the full file on GitHub · 375 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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 · 375 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A b3ee54ea7557

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lighthouse is a skill published in the GitHub repository darkroomengineering/cc-settings (42 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 3,540 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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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