NVIDIA Elements is a design system and agent-oriented toolkit for building operational interfaces for AI/ML, robotics, and autonomous-vehicle software. Its CLI and MCP tools provide component APIs, design tokens, examples, imports, validation, and setup guidance across several web frameworks.
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.
npx skills add NVIDIA/elements --skill audit-simplificationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/elementsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nvidia/elements/audit-simplification"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nvidia/elements/audit-simplification.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00126 | $0.01917 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00050 | $0.00767 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00025 | $0.00383 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00192 |
Grade A, and why
audit-simplification 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 16d 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 — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Audit Simplification
Find removable mechanisms while preserving required observable behavior. Favor fewer concepts, allocations, synchronization paths, and lifecycle responsibilities.
Scope and Authorization
- Analyze the project or directory the user names. If they name no target, infer the smallest reasonable scope from the request and repository state.
- Treat an audit as read-only. Edit only when the user explicitly asks for implementation.
- Read the root
AGENTS.md, nearer agent instructions, and the target project'sDEVELOPMENT.mdbefore analyzing.DEVELOPMENT.mdlists the test types the project runs, which shows which observable behavior is already covered. Read additional required guidelines for the files or APIs in scope. - Preserve unrelated working-tree changes.
- Preserve published API unless the user authorizes a breaking change. Treat each project's
package.jsonexportsas its published boundary. Packages also export their/internalentrypoints, and sibling packages depend on them; for example, most other projects import@nvidia-elements/core/internal. Before calling anything unused or unpublished, search every project underprojects/, including starters, site docs,*.examples.tsfiles, andprojects/internals/patterns.
Use audit-consolidation instead when the main question is where duplicate or shared responsibility should live. Use this skill when the earlier question is whether a mechanism or responsibility needs to exist at all. When both apply, run this audit first; removing a mechanism often removes the duplication question with it.
Establish the Observable Contract
Before proposing removal, identify the behavior that must survive:
- public properties, attributes, slots, methods, events, and exports
- CSS selectors, accessibility semantics, external observers, SSR, or serialization that depend on DOM state
- connection, disconnection, host replacement, and resource cleanup behavior
- ordering, isolation, caching, and error-reporting guarantees
- tests that assert externally observable behavior rather than implementation structure
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.
- 16d ago First seen · 164 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A ee178eeea990
audit-simplification is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/elements (102 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 1,917 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-07.
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