r3f-best-practices

r3f-best-practices is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zebbern/claude-code-guide. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,144 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A best-practice guide for React Three Fiber, a way to build Three.js 3D scenes with React, and related tools for state, effects, debugging, and physics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing, reviewing, or optimizing React Three Fiber code and its related libraries.
Why use it?
It helps prevent common rendering, animation, component, and performance problems in interactive 3D interfaces.

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

About the project

Claude Code Guide is a reference collection for configuring and using Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent. Developers use it to learn commands, skills, agents, MCP, automation, security, integrations, and troubleshooting. Its catalogue add-ons provide many of the documented skills and agents.

zebbern/claude-code-guide · 4,600 stars · on GitHub

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/zebbern/claude-code-guide/r3f-best-practices
Any agent
npx skills add zebbern/claude-code-guide --skill r3f-best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,144 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 5.1 $0.00074 $0.02144
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01072
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00429
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00214

Measured 6d ago against content hash 07ef389848b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

r3f-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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/r3f-best-practices/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

React Three Fiber Best Practices

Comprehensive guide for React Three Fiber and the Poimandres ecosystem. Contains 70+ rules across 12 categories, prioritized by impact.

Sources & Credits

Additional tips from 100 Three.js Tips by Utsubo

When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:

  • Writing new R3F components
  • Optimizing R3F performance (re-renders are the #1 issue)
  • Using Drei helpers correctly
  • Managing state with Zustand
  • Implementing post-processing or physics

Ecosystem Coverage

  • @react-three/fiber - React renderer for Three.js
  • @react-three/drei - Useful helpers and abstractions
  • @react-three/postprocessing - Post-processing effects
  • @react-three/rapier - Physics engine
  • zustand - State management
  • leva - Debug GUI

Rule Categories by Priority

Priority Category Impact Prefix
1 Performance & Re-renders CRITICAL perf-
2 useFrame & Animation CRITICAL frame-
3 Component Patterns HIGH component-
4 Canvas & Setup HIGH canvas-
5 Drei Helpers MEDIUM-HIGH drei-
6 Loading & Suspense MEDIUM-HIGH loading-
7 State Management MEDIUM state-
8 Events & Interaction MEDIUM events-
9 Post-processing MEDIUM postpro-
10 Physics (Rapier) LOW-MEDIUM physics-
11 Leva (Debug GUI) LOW leva-

Quick Reference

1. Performance & Re-renders (CRITICAL)

  • perf-never-set-state-in-useframe - NEVER call setState in useFrame
  • perf-isolate-state - Isolate components that need React state
  • perf-zustand-selectors - Use Zustand selectors, not entire store
  • perf-transient-subscriptions - Use transient subscriptions for continuous values
  • perf-memo-components - Memoize expensive components
  • perf-keys-for-lists - Use stable keys for dynamic lists
  • perf-avoid-inline-objects - Avoid creating objects/arrays in JSX
  • perf-dispose-auto - Understand R3F auto-dispose behavior
  • perf-visibility-toggle - Toggle visibility instead of remounting
  • perf-r3f-perf - Use r3f-perf for performance monitoring

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 6d ago First seen · 262 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 07ef389848b0

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r3f-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/claude-code-guide (4,600 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,144 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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