esp32-p4

esp32-p4 is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from iot-forge/m5stack-skills. It costs 270 tokens per session (3,964 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for the ESP32-P4 chip, a dual-core RISC-V microcontroller with a separate low-power core and built-in multimedia hardware. Unlike many ESP32 chips, it has no Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, so wireless requires another chip.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to work with camera input, display output, JPEG or H.264 encoding, 2D graphics and data movement, USB high-speed connections, low-power processing, and external wireless chips.
Why use it?
It clarifies which features belong to the P4 chip and which depend on the board around it. This prevents assuming that the chip includes wireless or choosing unsuitable hardware interfaces.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the esp32-chips plugin — 4 skills shipped together

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/iot-forge/m5stack-skills/esp32-p4
Any agent
npx skills add iot-forge/m5stack-skills --skill esp32-p4
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iot-forge/m5stack-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install esp32-chips, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 270 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,964 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 $0.00270 $0.03964
Opus 5 $0.00135 $0.01982
Sonnet 5 $0.00054 $0.00793
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00396

Measured 5d ago against content hash f6fc072ac996, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

esp32-p4 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 5d 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.

plugins/esp32-chips/skills/esp32-p4/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ESP32-P4 chip capabilities

This skill is the chip layer, not a board layer. A board skill (e.g. m5stack-tab5) tells you what's wired to what on one specific product; this skill tells you what the ESP32-P4 silicon itself can do — the peripherals, multimedia hardware, low-power modes, memory options, and concurrency model that are the same on every ESP32-P4 board regardless of vendor. Read a board's own skill first for pin numbers and I2C addresses, then come here when the user wants to go deeper on a capability than "call the vendor's high-level library and move on" — e.g. driving the MIPI camera pipeline, encoding H.264 in hardware, using the LP core while the main system sleeps, or getting real throughput out of USB HS OTG.

The one thing every ESP32-P4 user needs to know: no radio, ever

Unlike every other current ESP32 variant, the P4 has zero wireless hardware — no WiFi, no Bluetooth, no Thread/Zigbee/802.15.4. This isn't a stripped-down SKU; the chip was designed as a high-performance applications/HMI processor and pairs with a separate radio chip (an ESP32-C6 on M5Stack's Tab5 and Stamp-P4, most commonly) over SDIO or SPI when a project needs wireless. If a user asks "why won't WiFi.begin() compile/link" or "how do I get WiFi on my P4 board," the answer is always "it needs a companion radio chip and a host-side driver (ESP-Hosted or similar) talking to it" — not a missing library or wrong board setting. See that board's own skill (e.g. the m5stack-tab5 skill's "WiFi needs pin setup" section) for the actual wiring/init pattern on a specific product.

Not classic ESP32, not S2/S3, not C3/C6/C5, not H2

M5Stack (and the ESP32 family generally) spans several very different chips that are easy to conflate. Get this wrong and code silently targets the wrong architecture or assumes a peripheral that doesn't exist.

Chip Cores / arch Wireless Native USB Notable extras Not on this chip
ESP32-P4 (this skill) 2× RISC-V HP cores @ up to 400MHz + 1× RISC-V LP core @ up to 40MHz None — always pairs with a companion chip (M5Stack's Tab5/Stamp-P4 use a C6) Yes — USB 2.0 HS OTG and a separate FS OTG, both with integrated PHY MIPI-CSI+ISP, MIPI-DSI, hardware JPEG enc/dec, hardware H.264 encode, PPA + 2D-DMA, Ethernet MAC, PIE AI/DSP instruction extensions, up to 32MB in-package PSRAM Any wireless radio, Xtensa SIMD (esp-dsp/ESP-DL use PIE instead, see below)
ESP32-S3 2× Xtensa LX7 @ up to 240MHz + 1 low-power coprocessor core WiFi 4 + BLE 5 Yes — OTG (full-speed only) + separate USB-Serial-JTAG Xtensa SIMD/vector AI instructions, ULP-RISC-V and ULP-FSM Thread/Zigbee/802.15.4, WiFi 6, MIPI-DSI/CSI, hardware video codecs
ESP32 (classic) 2× Xtensa LX6 @ 240MHz WiFi 4 + Bluetooth Classic + BLE 4.2 No Widest library/example coverage, oldest silicon Native USB, SIMD extensions, ULP-RISC-V
ESP32-S2 1× Xtensa LX7 @ 240MHz WiFi 4 only, no Bluetooth at all Yes — OTG Very low deep-sleep current Second core, Bluetooth
ESP32-C3 1× RISC-V @ 160MHz WiFi 4 + BLE 5 No Cheapest/smallest Second core, native USB, SIMD
ESP32-C6 1× RISC-V @ 160MHz + LP core WiFi 6 (2.4GHz) + BLE 5.3 + Thread/Zigbee (802.15.4) No First ESP32 with WiFi 6 + Matter-ready radio stack — this is the P4's usual wireless companion Second core, native USB, hardware FPU
ESP32-C5 1× RISC-V @ 240MHz + LP core WiFi 6 dual-band (2.4+5GHz) + BLE 5 + 802.15.4 No Only dual-band-WiFi6 ESP32 variant Second core, native USB
ESP32-H2 1× RISC-V @ 96MHz No WiFi — BLE 5 + Thread/Zigbee only No Purpose-built low-power mesh/Matter radio WiFi entirely, second core

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 5d ago First seen · 204 lines · 270 tokens per session scan A f6fc072ac996

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esp32-p4 is a skill published in the GitHub repository iot-forge/m5stack-skills (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 270 tokens to every session and 3,964 once invoked, about $0.0014 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 2026-08-31.

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