core-web-vitals

core-web-vitals is a skill for Codex from PracticalSwan/agent-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (2,865 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A performance-optimization workflow for Core Web Vitals: LCP measures loading, INP measures responsiveness, and CLS measures unexpected layout movement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Diagnosing and improving loading speed, interaction response, and visual stability, then repeating equivalent measurements after changes.
Why use it?
It connects performance changes to real user data and browser traces, helping avoid guessing which code or resource causes a slow or unstable page.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Diagnosing and improving loading speed, interaction response, and visual stability, then repeating equivalent measurements after changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/core-web-vitals
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 PracticalSwan/agent-skills --skill core-web-vitals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PracticalSwan/agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,865 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 53
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • high Prompt Injection · line 212
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.00065 $0.02865
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01432
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00573
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00286

Measured yesterday against content hash 381d9dea9641, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

core-web-vitals 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.

core-web-vitals/SKILL.md · 280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Core Web Vitals optimization

Targeted optimization for the three Core Web Vitals using field data to identify user impact and browser traces to diagnose causes.

Measure before optimizing

When a runnable URL is available, read the performance measurement workflow. Prefer this sequence:

  1. Check page-level CrUX p75 data, with a clearly labeled origin fallback when page data is unavailable.
  2. Record a browser performance trace under stated conditions. With Chrome DevTools MCP, trace summaries can include CrUX alongside the observed lab metrics.
  3. Analyze only the insights associated with the failing metric, then inspect the implicated code and resources.
  4. Re-run equivalent lab measurements after the fix. Do not claim an immediate field improvement; CrUX and first-party RUM need new user visits.

If only source code is available, identify likely causes but do not claim that LCP, INP, or CLS is failing without runtime evidence.

The three metrics

Metric Measures Good Needs work Poor
LCP Loading ≤ 2.5s 2.5s – 4s > 4s
INP Interactivity ≤ 200ms 200ms – 500ms > 500ms
CLS Visual Stability ≤ 0.1 0.1 – 0.25 > 0.25

Google measures at the 75th percentile — 75% of page visits must meet "Good" thresholds.


LCP: Largest Contentful Paint

LCP measures when the largest visible content element renders. Usually this is:

  • Hero image or video
  • Large text block
  • Background image
  • <svg> element

Common LCP issues

1. Slow server response (TTFB > 800ms)

Fix: CDN, caching, optimized backend, edge rendering

2. Render-blocking resources

<!-- ❌ Blocks rendering -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/all-styles.css">

<!-- ✅ Critical CSS inlined, rest deferred -->
<style>/* Critical above-fold CSS */</style>
<link rel="preload" href="/styles.css" as="style" 
      onload="this.onload=null;this.rel='stylesheet'">

Read the full file on GitHub · 280 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. yesterday Changed · +2 lines 381d9dea9641
  2. 3d ago Changed 3b7ef6c435df
  3. 6d ago Changed 5ef7b030ff04
  4. 9d ago First seen · 278 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 00b2ff7e50b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

core-web-vitals is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (13 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,865 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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