guidance-webgpu-performance

guidance-webgpu-performance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NVIDIA/elements. It costs 98 tokens per session (1,836 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for diagnosing and improving WebGPU rendering performance in browsers. WebGPU is a browser API that lets applications use the computer's graphics processor to draw interactive content.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate rendering regressions, frame stutter, buffer uploads, shader work, draw overhead, and other tasks on the rendering path.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether slow or uneven rendering comes from JavaScript, browser API work, data transfers, shaders, or the GPU before code is changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

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

Good fit It helps investigate rendering regressions, frame stutter, buffer uploads, shader work, draw overhead, and other tasks on the rendering path.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia/elements/guidance-webgpu-performance
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 · 102 stars · on GitHub · nvidia.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA/elements --skill guidance-webgpu-performance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/elements

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,836 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00098 $0.01836
Opus 5.5 $0.00039 $0.00734
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00184

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3f00e7939df8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guidance-webgpu-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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/guidance-webgpu-performance/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Optimize WebGPU Performance

Find the limiting resource before changing the renderer. Produce a reproducible diagnosis that separates JavaScript preparation, browser/API submission, data transfer, and GPU execution, then make only changes supported by measurements.

Required context

  1. Read the repository AGENTS.md and the affected project's DEVELOPMENT.md.
  2. Inspect the render loop, update path, buffer and texture ownership, shader code, and resource lifecycle involved in the representative workload.
  3. Before adding or changing a benchmark, inspect the affected package's package.json, local Vitest benchmark configuration, existing *.test.bench.ts files, and any shared configuration they import. Do not assume another project's harness applies unchanged.
  4. Read the performance diagnostic playbook when classifying a bottleneck, selecting instrumentation, or proposing an optimization.
  5. Read the reusable WebGPU test suite guide when adding or reviewing a *.test.webgpu.ts suite, choosing a test mode, or deciding whether a performance task belongs in CI.

Establish the performance question

Define the workload and target before measuring:

  • Separate initialization, steady rendering, interactive updates, streaming updates, picking/readback, and cleanup. Do not combine them into one unexplained metric.
  • Record object and primitive counts, update frequency and size, draw/pass counts, canvas pixel dimensions, device-pixel ratio, transparency, anti-aliasing, and relevant renderer settings.
  • Choose the user-visible metric: frame budget and tail latency, update latency, throughput, startup time, or memory. FPS alone can hide missed frames behind the display's refresh-rate ceiling.
  • Preserve correctness and representative visual output. A faster result that omits required work is not an optimization.
  • Inspect git status --short and preserve unrelated changes. Record when measurements include a dirty worktree.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 1mo ago Changed · +14 lines · +15 tokens per session 3f00e7939df8
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 89 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A d6d9f4e3a599

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guidance-webgpu-performance is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/elements (102 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,836 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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