low-end-device-performance

low-end-device-performance is a skill for Claude Code from Kaguara/emerging-market-skills. It costs 94 tokens per session (2,164 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A performance guide for apps running on entry-level phones with limited memory, slower processors, nearly full storage, and worn batteries. It treats the app as likely to be interrupted or stopped by the operating system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing memory use, long-running work, large lists, images, animations, background tasks, and restoring state after the app is stopped.
Why use it?
It helps prevent crashes, freezes, excessive battery use, lost progress, and poor interaction on older or cheaper devices.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the emerging-market-skills plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when building or reviewing memory use, long-running work, large lists, images, animations, background tasks, and restoring state after the app is stopped.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kaguara/emerging-market-skills/low-end-device-performance
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Kaguara/emerging-market-skills --skill low-end-device-performance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kaguara/emerging-market-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install emerging-market-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,164 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00094 $0.02164
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.01082
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00433
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00216

Measured 12d ago against content hash c015fe0f8fd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

low-end-device-performance 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/audit_perf.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/low-end-device-performance/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.

Low-end device performance

The constraint

The reference device has 1–2GB of RAM shared with the operating system, a CPU roughly a quarter as fast as the phone in your pocket, storage that is almost full, and a four-year-old battery holding perhaps 60% of its original charge. It is running a browser with eleven tabs and three chat apps that all hold wake locks. Your process is a candidate for termination from the moment it is backgrounded.

Performance work here is not about being fast. It is about surviving: not being killed, not running out of memory, not freezing the one thread that handles touch.

Hard rules

ID Rule Severity
PERF-001 Name a reference device at tier C and make it the definition of "works". critical
PERF-002 Assume the process will be killed at any moment and restore state on return. critical
PERF-003 Bound every in-memory cache, especially image caches. critical
PERF-004 Keep long tasks off the main thread; never block input for more than 200ms. warning
PERF-005 Recycle or virtualise any list that can exceed one screen. warning
PERF-006 Precompute on the server what the device would otherwise compute. warning
PERF-007 Cap background work, wake locks, and polling. warning
PERF-008 Animate only compositor-friendly properties, and honour reduced motion. advisory
PERF-009 Give any on-device inference or heavy computation a server or static fallback. advisory

Full detection criteria and remedies in rules.yml.

Judgment

Your test device is the problem. Every other rule here follows from PERF-001. A team whose acceptance criteria run on flagship hardware will ship something that works, by their own honest measurement, and is unusable for the people they built it for. The fix is unglamorous and cheap: buy the entry-level device, put it on the desk, and make it the gate. No profiling technique substitutes for the moment someone feels the app stutter in their own hand.

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 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. 12d ago First seen · 204 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A c015fe0f8fd5

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low-end-device-performance is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kaguara/emerging-market-skills (7 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 2,164 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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