authoring-benchmarks

authoring-benchmarks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NVIDIA/elements. It costs 105 tokens per session (2,322 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for creating browser performance benchmarks for Elements components and utilities. It helps choose between browser benchmarks, Lighthouse tests, visual tests, and CI timing checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create or update benchmark files, compare runtime results, investigate browser performance regressions, and measure build or test timing.
Why use it?
It avoids measuring the wrong kind of performance or using an unsuitable test environment. It gives developers a consistent way to investigate browser performance changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

About the project

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.

NVIDIA/elements · 85 stars · on GitHub · nvidia.github.io

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/nvidia/elements/authoring-benchmarks
Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA/elements --skill authoring-benchmarks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/elements

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,322 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 5.1 $0.00105 $0.02322
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01161
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00232

Measured yesterday against content hash 3ff39d519e05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

authoring-benchmarks 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.

.agents/skills/authoring-benchmarks/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Authoring Benchmarks

Create browser benchmarks that answer a specific performance question. Browser behavior is the product behavior, so Chromium is the default runtime for component and utility benchmarks.

Required Context

Before changing benchmarks:

  1. Read the testing overview.
  2. Read the Bench section of the Vite internals documentation.
  3. Read the target project's DEVELOPMENT.md.
  4. Inspect the implementation, its unit tests, and the closest existing benchmark.

Use the guidance-build skill as well when adding or changing Wireit tasks. Use the audit-ci skill instead when measuring pnpm run ci, build orchestration, or the CI completion path.

Choose the Correct Performance Test

Question Tool
How fast is a repeatable function, DOM traversal, state synchronization, filter, or component update? Browser benchmark (*.test.bench.ts)
How does a page load, score in Lighthouse, or consume network resources? Lighthouse test (*.test.lighthouse.ts)
Did a visual rendering result change? Visual test (*.test.visual.ts)
Which build or test task controls CI wall-clock time? audit-ci workflow
Is behavior correct? Unit, accessibility, SSR, or integration test

Do not use an SSR benchmark as a substitute for browser lifecycle performance. SSR serialization and browser DOM work are different workloads.

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 lines

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 · 215 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 3ff39d519e05

Subscribe to this mod's changes

authoring-benchmarks is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/elements (85 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 2,322 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 2026-09-03.

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