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.
npx skills add PracticalSwan/agent-skills --skill react-best-practicesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PracticalSwan/agent-skillsWrote 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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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00065 | $0.02409 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00032 | $0.01205 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00482 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00241 |
Grade A, and why
react-best-practices 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 4d 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.
This is a copy
84% identical to vercel-react-best-practices — 97 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Vercel React Best Practices
Comprehensive performance optimization guide for React and Next.js applications, maintained by Vercel. Contains 70 rules across 8 categories, prioritized by impact to guide automated refactoring and code generation.
When to Apply
Reference these guidelines when:
- Writing new React components or Next.js pages
- Implementing data fetching (client or server-side)
- Reviewing code for performance issues
- Refactoring existing React/Next.js code
- Optimizing bundle size or load times
Rule Categories by Priority
| Priority | Category | Impact | Prefix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eliminating Waterfalls | CRITICAL | async- |
| 2 | Bundle Size Optimization | CRITICAL | bundle- |
| 3 | Server-Side Performance | HIGH | server- |
| 4 | Client-Side Data Fetching | MEDIUM-HIGH | client- |
| 5 | Re-render Optimization | MEDIUM | rerender- |
| 6 | Rendering Performance | MEDIUM | rendering- |
| 7 | JavaScript Performance | LOW-MEDIUM | js- |
| 8 | Advanced Patterns | LOW | advanced- |
Quick Reference
1. Eliminating Waterfalls (CRITICAL)
async-cheap-condition-before-await- Check cheap sync conditions before awaiting flags or remote valuesasync-defer-await- Move await into branches where actually usedasync-parallel- Use Promise.all() for independent operationsasync-dependencies- Use better-all for partial dependenciesasync-api-routes- Start promises early, await late in API routesasync-suspense-boundaries- Use Suspense to stream content
2. Bundle Size Optimization (CRITICAL)
bundle-barrel-imports- Import directly, avoid barrel filesbundle-analyzable-paths- Prefer statically analyzable import and file-system paths to avoid broad bundles and tracesbundle-dynamic-imports- Use next/dynamic for heavy componentsbundle-defer-third-party- Load analytics/logging after hydrationbundle-conditional- Load modules only when feature is activatedbundle-preload- Preload on hover/focus for perceived speed
What ships with it
60 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.
- AGENTS.md 106 KB
- CHANGELOG.md 3.4 KB
- metadata.json 921 B
- README.md 3.3 KB
- rules/_sections.md 1.5 KB
- rules/_template.md 631 B
- rules/advanced-effect-event-deps.md 1.8 KB
- rules/advanced-event-handler-refs.md 1.4 KB
- rules/advanced-init-once.md 958 B
- rules/advanced-use-latest.md 1.0 KB
- rules/async-api-routes.md 1.1 KB
- rules/async-cheap-condition-before-await.md 1.2 KB
- rules/async-defer-await.md 2.2 KB
- rules/async-dependencies.md 1.3 KB
- rules/async-parallel.md 654 B
- rules/async-suspense-boundaries.md 2.5 KB
- rules/bundle-analyzable-paths.md 2.3 KB
- rules/bundle-barrel-imports.md 2.7 KB
- rules/bundle-conditional.md 949 B
- rules/bundle-defer-third-party.md 920 B
- rules/bundle-dynamic-imports.md 791 B
- rules/bundle-preload.md 1.1 KB
- rules/client-event-listeners.md 1.9 KB
- rules/client-localstorage-schema.md 1.9 KB
- rules/client-passive-event-listeners.md 1.6 KB
- rules/client-swr-dedup.md 1.1 KB
- rules/js-batch-dom-css.md 3.2 KB
- rules/js-cache-function-results.md 1.9 KB
- rules/js-cache-property-access.md 532 B
- rules/js-cache-storage.md 1.6 KB
- rules/js-combine-iterations.md 753 B
- rules/js-early-exit.md 1.1 KB
- rules/js-flatmap-filter.md 1.4 KB
- rules/js-hoist-regexp.md 1.0 KB
- rules/js-index-maps.md 837 B
- rules/js-length-check-first.md 1.7 KB
- rules/js-min-max-loop.md 2.2 KB
- rules/js-request-idle-callback.md 2.6 KB
- rules/js-set-map-lookups.md 532 B
- rules/js-tosorted-immutable.md 1.7 KB
- rules/rendering-activity.md 564 B
- rules/rendering-animate-svg-wrapper.md 1.2 KB
- rules/rendering-conditional-render.md 980 B
- rules/rendering-content-visibility.md 815 B
- rules/rendering-hoist-jsx.md 1.0 KB
- rules/rendering-hydration-no-flicker.md 2.3 KB
- rules/rendering-hydration-suppress-warning.md 872 B
- rules/rendering-resource-hints.md 2.5 KB
- rules/rendering-script-defer-async.md 1.8 KB
- rules/rendering-svg-precision.md 588 B
- rules/rendering-usetransition-loading.md 2.0 KB
- rules/rerender-defer-reads.md 973 B
- rules/rerender-dependencies.md 824 B
- rules/rerender-derived-state-no-effect.md 1.2 KB
- rules/rerender-derived-state.md 728 B
- rules/rerender-functional-setstate.md 2.9 KB
- rules/rerender-lazy-state-init.md 2.0 KB
- rules/rerender-memo-with-default-value.md 1.1 KB
- rules/rerender-memo.md 1.1 KB
- rules/rerender-move-effect-to-event.md 1.2 KB
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.
- 4d ago Changed 022cb0fcd763
- 6d ago Changed b50652d39cd1
- 8d ago First seen · 206 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 6e75e7a3213b
react-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,409 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to vercel-react-best-practices, differing in 97 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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