optimizing-lazy-layouts

optimizing-lazy-layouts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from skydoves/compose-performance-skills. It costs 147 tokens per session (3,478 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for improving Jetpack Compose lists and grids that display only the items currently needed, such as LazyColumn and LazyVerticalGrid.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add stable item keys, describe different item types, support animateItem(), move repeated work out of item builders, and check whether list items can skip unnecessary updates.
Why use it?
It helps address scrolling stutter, lost item state, and missing insert or removal animations caused by items being reused or created incorrectly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to add stable item keys, describe different item types, support animateItem(), move repeated work out of item builders, and check whether list items can skip unnecessary updates.

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npx agentmods add skills/skydoves/compose-performance-skills/optimizing-lazy-layouts
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Any agent
npx skills add skydoves/compose-performance-skills --skill optimizing-lazy-layouts
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lists/optimizing-lazy-layouts/SKILL.md · 273 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 273 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Optimizing Lazy Layouts — Keys, contentType, and animateItem()

Lazy layouts compose only what's visible, but two things still cost: re-composition of items that should have been reused (missing key), and per-item allocation that compounds with scroll velocity (missing contentType, modifier chains created inside items { }). Both have a one-line fix. This skill teaches Claude how to apply that fix correctly and to validate that item composables are themselves skippable. Prefetch tuning is a separate concern — see ../configuring-lazy-prefetch/SKILL.md.

When to use this skill

  • The developer reports scroll jank, dropped frames, or stutter on a LazyColumn, LazyRow, LazyVerticalGrid, or LazyHorizontalGrid.
  • Items lose scroll position, focus, or composition state on insert, remove, or reorder.
  • A mixed-type feed (cards + headers + ads + carousels) feels sluggish even though each individual row is lightweight.
  • Modifier.animateItem() was added but no animation runs on inserts or removals.
  • The compiler report shows item composables as unstable/non-skippable, or @TraceRecomposition shows item composables recomposing on every scroll tick.

When NOT to use this skill

  • The bottleneck is the prefetch window (heavy items, high-velocity scroll, want a wider ahead/behind window) → use ../configuring-lazy-prefetch/SKILL.md.
  • The item composable itself takes an unstable parameter (List<Foo>, Flow<Foo>, a domain var) → first run ../../stability/diagnosing-compose-stability/SKILL.md and then ../../stability/stabilizing-compose-types/SKILL.md.
  • An animation inside an item reads state.value in Composition phase, recomposing the row every frame → use ../../recomposition/deferring-state-reads/SKILL.md.
  • Scroll position derivation (e.g. firstVisibleItemIndex == 0) is the hot path → use ../../recomposition/choosing-derivedstateof/SKILL.md.

Prerequisites

  • Compose Foundation 1.7+ for Modifier.animateItem() (the GA replacement for the experimental animateItemPlacement).
  • Kotlin 2.0.0+ with org.jetbrains.kotlin.plugin.compose applied. Strong Skipping is on by default; non-skippable item composables become amplified at scroll speed.
  • A real device + release build for measurement. Skydoves hot take #5: debug builds lie (Live Literals, interpreted mode). See ../../measurement/generating-baseline-profiles/SKILL.md when ready to measure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 273 lines

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  1. 8d ago First seen · 273 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A b905f03a2961

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optimizing-lazy-layouts is a skill published in the GitHub repository skydoves/compose-performance-skills (499 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 3,478 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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