speculative-decoding

speculative-decoding is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenLAIR/dr-claw-plugin-cc. It costs 77 tokens per session (3,753 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to speculative decoding, a method that uses a smaller draft model or extra prediction heads to suggest several next tokens before a larger model checks them. Accepted suggestions can reduce response latency.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to optimise model serving, reduce generation latency, and experiment with draft models, tree attention, or lookahead decoding.
Why use it?
It addresses slow language-model inference, especially for real-time applications or limited computing resources. It covers several decoding approaches for testing different speed improvements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the dr-claw plugin — 140 skills, 4 commands, 1 hook shipped together

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/openlair/dr-claw-plugin-cc/speculative-decoding
Any agent
npx skills add OpenLAIR/dr-claw-plugin-cc --skill speculative-decoding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenLAIR/dr-claw-plugin-cc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dr-claw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 140 skills, 4 commands, 1 hook.

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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.

agentmods badge for speculative-decoding

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,753 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00077 $0.03753
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01877
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00751
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00375

Measured 2d ago against content hash d818b841ffe3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speculative-decoding 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 2d 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.

plugins/dr-claw/skills/emerging-techniques/speculative-decoding/SKILL.md · 468 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 468 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A d818b841ffe3

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speculative-decoding is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenLAIR/dr-claw-plugin-cc (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 3,753 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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