gguf-quantization

gguf-quantization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davila7/claude-code-templates. It costs 48 tokens per session (3,147 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A model-file format and toolchain for running language models efficiently through llama.cpp. It supports CPUs, Apple Silicon, and GPUs with several compression levels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing and running local models in tools such as LM Studio, Ollama, koboldcpp, and text-generation-webui.
Why use it?
It makes local model use practical on laptops, desktops, and other hardware without requiring a Python runtime.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Claude Code Templates is a command-line tool and catalogue for configuring Anthropic’s Claude Code with agents, commands, settings, hooks, integrations, skills, and project templates. Developers use it to browse and install reusable components for their coding workflows. The catalogue includes many of these Claude Code components.

davila7/claude-code-templates · 30,532 stars · on GitHub

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/davila7/claude-code-templates/optimization-gguf
Any agent
npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill optimization-gguf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,147 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 $0.00048 $0.03147
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01573
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00629
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00315

Measured yesterday against content hash 11016e03b2b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gguf-quantization 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/optimization-gguf/SKILL.md · 428 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 428 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GGUF - Quantization Format for llama.cpp

The GGUF (GPT-Generated Unified Format) is the standard file format for llama.cpp, enabling efficient inference on CPUs, Apple Silicon, and GPUs with flexible quantization options.

When to use GGUF

Use GGUF when:

  • Deploying on consumer hardware (laptops, desktops)
  • Running on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) with Metal acceleration
  • Need CPU inference without GPU requirements
  • Want flexible quantization (Q2_K to Q8_0)
  • Using local AI tools (LM Studio, Ollama, text-generation-webui)

Key advantages:

  • Universal hardware: CPU, Apple Silicon, NVIDIA, AMD support
  • No Python runtime: Pure C/C++ inference
  • Flexible quantization: 2-8 bit with various methods (K-quants)
  • Ecosystem support: LM Studio, Ollama, koboldcpp, and more
  • imatrix: Importance matrix for better low-bit quality

Use alternatives instead:

  • AWQ/GPTQ: Maximum accuracy with calibration on NVIDIA GPUs
  • HQQ: Fast calibration-free quantization for HuggingFace
  • bitsandbytes: Simple integration with transformers library
  • TensorRT-LLM: Production NVIDIA deployment with maximum speed

Quick start

Installation

# Clone llama.cpp
git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp
cd llama.cpp

# Build (CPU)
make

# Build with CUDA (NVIDIA)
make GGML_CUDA=1

# Build with Metal (Apple Silicon)
make GGML_METAL=1

# Install Python bindings (optional)
pip install llama-cpp-python

Convert model to GGUF

# Install requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Convert HuggingFace model to GGUF (FP16)
python convert_hf_to_gguf.py ./path/to/model --outfile model-f16.gguf

# Or specify output type
python convert_hf_to_gguf.py ./path/to/model \
    --outfile model-f16.gguf \
    --outtype f16

Quantize model

# Basic quantization to Q4_K_M
./llama-quantize model-f16.gguf model-q4_k_m.gguf Q4_K_M

# Quantize with importance matrix (better quality)
./llama-imatrix -m model-f16.gguf -f calibration.txt -o model.imatrix
./llama-quantize --imatrix model.imatrix model-f16.gguf model-q4_k_m.gguf Q4_K_M

Read the full file on GitHub · 428 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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. yesterday First seen · 428 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 11016e03b2b5

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gguf-quantization is a skill published in the GitHub repository davila7/claude-code-templates (30,532 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 3,147 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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