speculative-decoding

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

A guide to speculative decoding, a way to generate text faster by having a smaller draft model suggest tokens for a larger model to check. It also covers Medusa and lookahead decoding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to optimize language-model inference for real-time applications or deployments with limited computing resources.
Why use it?
It targets lower response latency and faster generation without replacing the main model.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to optimize language-model inference for real-time applications or deployments with limited computing resources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openlair/dr-claw/speculative-decoding
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 OpenLAIR/dr-claw --skill speculative-decoding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenLAIR/dr-claw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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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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. 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 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 5.1 $0.00077 $0.03753
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.01501
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00751
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00375

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d818b841ffe3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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.

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

Subscribe to this mod's changes

speculative-decoding is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenLAIR/dr-claw (1,200 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 3,753 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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