web-performance

web-performance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TheDecipherist/claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit. It costs 114 tokens per session (2,106 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for designing website performance from the beginning. It separates resources needed for the first screen from content and scripts that can load later, and covers browser techniques for each group.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing user-facing pages and components. It helps decide what to include immediately, what to defer or lazy-load, and when to preload images or fonts.
Why use it?
It helps prevent slow first loads and delays caused by loading everything at once. It also addresses page stability and responsiveness, including Core Web Vitals, which are Google's measures of loading, visual stability, and interaction speed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/thedecipherist/claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit/web-performance
Any agent
npx skills add TheDecipherist/claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit --skill web-performance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheDecipherist/claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,106 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 $0.00114 $0.02106
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.01053
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00421
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00211

Measured 4d ago against content hash babd48da3ff4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-performance 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.

.claude/skills/web-performance/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Performance: Decide It Up Front

Performance is an architecture decision made at the start, not a cleanup pass at the end. The first question for anything user-facing is: what does the user need to see and interact with first, and what can wait. Build to that split. Loading everything eagerly and optimizing later is the expensive path, and it's the one Claude defaults to.

Split first paint from later, and load each accordingly

Sort every resource into two buckets and treat them differently:

  • Critical, needed for first paint (above the fold, the main content and its styles): put it in the initial HTML, inline the critical CSS (see css-structure), preload the largest image and the one critical font.
  • Later (below the fold, interactions, secondary features, third-party): defer it. Lazy-load below-fold images and iframes natively with loading="lazy", no JavaScript library or IntersectionObserver needed, the browser handles it, and on an iframe it defers heavy third-party embeds like maps and video players too. Then defer or async non-critical scripts, dynamic-import offscreen components and routes, and load analytics and third-party tags late and async.

Don't let CSS or JS block first paint

CSS is render-blocking: a single large stylesheet delays the first paint until it's downloaded and parsed. Inline the above-the-fold slice and load the rest without blocking (<link rel="preload" as="style" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'">, or a media swap). A <script> in <head> without defer blocks HTML parsing; use defer (runs after parse, in order) or async (independent scripts), or put scripts at the end of <body>. Keep the number of render-blocking requests small.

The LCP element gets priority and is never lazy-loaded

The Largest Contentful Paint is usually the hero image or headline above the fold, and it's the metric users feel as "has it loaded yet." Preload it, mark it fetchpriority="high", and serve it correctly sized and compressed. Do NOT put loading="lazy" on it, that's a common mistake that delays the very thing LCP measures. Lazy-loading is for everything below the fold, not the first thing on screen.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 4d ago First seen · 104 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A babd48da3ff4

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web-performance is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheDecipherist/claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit (337 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 2,106 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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