react-compiler

A reference for understanding what React Compiler 1.0 automatically optimizes and what still needs manual handling. React Compiler is a build tool that can add memoization to reduce repeated work in React applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding whether to add memoization, interpreting profiler results, investigating React performance, or checking limitations involving React.memo, captured props, and DOM references.
Why use it?
It helps developers avoid unnecessary useMemo and useCallback calls while identifying cases the compiler cannot solve automatically. Its guidance is based on observed compiler output rather than assumptions.

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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/recca0120/code-quest/react-compiler
Any agent
npx skills add recca0120/code-quest --skill react-compiler
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/recca0120/code-quest

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,429 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00107 $0.02429
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01215
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00243

Measured 2d ago against content hash 59d36fa8a75a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

react-compiler 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.

.claude/skills/react-compiler/SKILL.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

React Compiler 1.0 — 實際行為與邊界

This project uses React Compiler. 不亂加 useMemo / useCallback 才對,但也不是全部自動。

本 skill 的結論以 babel-plugin-react-compiler 實際編譯輸出為準,不依賴推論。有疑問時用下面的 probe script 跑看。

What Compiler DOES auto-memoize(不要再加 useMemo)

以下所有情境 Compiler 都會插入 cache slots(if ($[0] !== dep) 形式)自動 memo。手動 useMemo 是純冗餘:

1. Component 內部的 JSX / callback / 物件字面值

function Counter() {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0);
  const increment = () => setCount((n) => n + 1);  // auto-memo
  const meta = { count, isZero: count === 0 };     // auto-memo on [count]
  return <Button onClick={increment}>{count}</Button>;  // JSX auto-memo
}

2. Hook 回傳值的 spread

export function useSession() {
  const state = useContext(StateCtx);
  const actions = useContext(ActionsCtx);
  if (!state || !actions) throw new Error('...');
  return { ...state, ...actions };  // auto-memo on [state, actions]
}

3. Hook 內的 filter / map / reduce / sort

export function useVisibleItems() {
  const { items, filter } = useContext(ListContext);
  return items.filter((item) => item.status === filter);  // auto-memo on [items, filter]
}

4. 合併預設值

export function useConfig(overrides?: Partial<Config>) {
  return { ...DEFAULT_CONFIG, ...overrides };  // auto-memo on [overrides]
}

5. Provider value inline object

return <Ctx.Provider value={{ socket }}>{children}</Ctx.Provider>;  // auto-memo on [socket]
// 跟以下寫法編譯後完全一樣:
const value = useMemo(() => ({ socket }), [socket]);
return <Ctx.Provider value={value}>{children}</Ctx.Provider>;

What Compiler does NOT do(這 3 件必須手動)

這是架構限制,Compiler 沒辦法替你處理:

邊界 1:Component boundary memoization

Compiler 不會自動把 child component 包成 React.memo。Parent render → child 被呼叫,即使 child 自己 context 沒變。

手動處理時機:

  • 渲染成本高的 leaf component(Markdown / syntax highlight / 大型表格 row)
  • 深 provider tree 的邊界(memo 一次 short-circuit 整片 subtree)
  • 吃 props 但 props 多半穩定的 container

不值得 memo:

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 lines

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 · 243 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 59d36fa8a75a

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react-compiler is a skill published in the GitHub repository recca0120/code-quest (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 2,429 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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