Getting it into your agent
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npx agentmods add skills/itswendell/palot/react-best-practicesnpx skills add ItsWendell/palot --skill react-best-practicesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ItsWendell/palotWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00050 | $0.01301 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00025 | $0.00651 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00260 |
| 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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
React Best Practices
Comprehensive performance optimization guide for React applications. Contains 47 rules across 7 categories, prioritized by impact to guide automated refactoring and code generation. Next.js-specific rules have been removed for this project (Electron + Vite + React 19). Originally from vercel-labs/agent-skills (MIT).
When to Apply
Reference these guidelines when:
- Writing new React components
- Implementing data fetching (client-side)
- Reviewing code for performance issues
- Refactoring existing React code
- Optimizing bundle size or load times
Rule Categories by Priority
| Priority | Category | Impact | Prefix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eliminating Waterfalls | CRITICAL | async- |
| 2 | Bundle Size Optimization | CRITICAL | bundle- |
| 3 | Client-Side Data Fetching | MEDIUM-HIGH | client- |
| 4 | Re-render Optimization | MEDIUM | rerender- |
| 5 | Rendering Performance | MEDIUM | rendering- |
| 6 | JavaScript Performance | LOW-MEDIUM | js- |
| 7 | 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 routes
2. Bundle Size Optimization (CRITICAL)
bundle-barrel-imports- Import directly, avoid barrel filesbundle-conditional- Load modules only when feature is activatedbundle-preload- Preload on hover/focus for perceived speed
3. Client-Side Data Fetching (MEDIUM-HIGH)
client-swr-dedup- Use SWR for automatic request deduplicationclient-event-listeners- Deduplicate global event listenersclient-passive-event-listeners- Use passive listeners for scrollclient-localstorage-schema- Version and minimize localStorage data
4. Re-render Optimization (MEDIUM)
What ships with it
48 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.
- AGENTS.md 63 KB
- rules/advanced-event-handler-refs.md 1.4 KB
- rules/advanced-init-once.md 958 B
- rules/advanced-use-latest.md 1.0 KB
- rules/async-api-routes.md 1.1 KB
- rules/async-defer-await.md 2.0 KB
- rules/async-dependencies.md 1.3 KB
- rules/async-parallel.md 654 B
- rules/bundle-barrel-imports.md 2.3 KB
- rules/bundle-conditional.md 949 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 3.2 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 2.2 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 2.3 KB
- rules/rendering-hydration-suppress-warning.md 872 B
- rules/rendering-svg-precision.md 588 B
- rules/rendering-usetransition-loading.md 2.0 KB
- rules/rerender-defer-reads.md 973 B
- rules/rerender-dependencies.md 824 B
- rules/rerender-derived-state-no-effect.md 1.2 KB
- rules/rerender-derived-state.md 728 B
- rules/rerender-functional-setstate.md 2.9 KB
- rules/rerender-lazy-state-init.md 2.0 KB
- rules/rerender-memo-with-default-value.md 1.1 KB
- rules/rerender-memo.md 1.1 KB
- rules/rerender-move-effect-to-event.md 1.2 KB
- rules/rerender-simple-expression-in-memo.md 1018 B
- rules/rerender-transitions.md 1.0 KB
- rules/rerender-use-ref-transient-values.md 1.7 KB
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 123 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A a713eb98244b
react-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository ItsWendell/palot (178 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,301 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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