Agent skill

Cpu Pipelines And Hazards

by mohitmishra786 in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills

CPU pipeline skill for hazards, forwarding, and stalls. An agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.

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Install Cpu Pipelines And Hazards

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill cpu-pipelines-and-hazards -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills cpu-pipelines-and-hazards --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/computer-architecture/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards .claude/skills/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
cpu-pipelines-and-hazards
GitHub stars
252
Token cost
~808 tokens
SKILL.md length
213 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
138
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

CPU pipeline skill for hazards, forwarding, and stalls. An agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.

  • Works in 7 steps: Five-stage classic pipeline (MIPS-style… → Data hazards → Control hazards (branches) → …
  • Explaining pipeline stages
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, When to Use, Workflow and Common Problems, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Cpu Pipelines And Hazards is an agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills. CPU pipeline skill for hazards, forwarding, and stalls. Use when explaining pipeline stages, data/control hazards, forwarding paths, or branch stalls in performance analysis. Activates on queries about pipeline hazard, data hazard, control hazard, forwarding, pipeline stall, or superscalar basics.

Its SKILL.md is about 810 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: A curated suite of AI agent skills for systems and low-level programming with C/C++, Rust, and Zig toolchains, covering compilers, debuggers, profilers, build systems…. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Explaining pipeline stages
  • Data/control hazards
  • Forwarding paths
  • Branch stalls in performance analysis

Example prompts

  • “/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Five-stage classic pipeline (MIPS-style mental model)
  2. Data hazards
  3. Control hazards (branches)
  4. Structural hazards
  5. Practical optimization hints
  6. Reading uops / ports (x86)
  7. Agent usage

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bdc5847. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are c and bash).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Cpu Pipelines And Hazards loads about 808 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 213 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~81
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~808

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills at commit bdc5847, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitmishra786). 213 words, ~808 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
cpu-pipelines-and-hazards
description
CPU pipeline skill for hazards, forwarding, and stalls. Use when explaining pipeline stages, data/control hazards, forwarding paths, or branch stalls in performance analysis. Activates on queries about pipeline hazard, data hazard, control hazard, forwarding, pipeline stall, or superscalar basics.

CPU Pipelines and Hazards

Purpose

Explain classic and modern CPU pipeline concepts: stages, data and control hazards, forwarding/bypassing, stalls, and branch handling — foundational for optimization and understanding microarchitecture counters.

When to Use

  • Interpreting pipeline stall metrics from skills/profilers/intel-vtune-amd-uprof
  • Teaching why instruction order affects throughput
  • Relating assembly scheduling to hardware behavior
  • Debugging unexpected performance cliffs in hot loops

Workflow

1. Five-stage classic pipeline (MIPS-style mental model)
IF → ID → EX → MEM → WB

Overlapped execution: instruction N in EX while N+1 in ID.

2. Data hazards
TypeExampleMitigation
RAW (true)add r1,r2,r3 then sub r4,r1,r5Forwarding from EX/MEM/WB
WAR / WAWRare in in-order; relevant in OoO renameRegister renaming

Without forwarding:

stall until writeback completes
3. Control hazards (branches)
Branch in ID → target unknown until EX
├── Predict taken/not-taken (static or dynamic)
├── Flush wrong-path instructions on mispredict
└── Penalty = pipeline depth (varies by CPU)

See skills/computer-architecture/branch-prediction-and-speculation.

4. Structural hazards

Limited functional units (single memory port) cause stalls even without dependencies.

5. Practical optimization hints
c
/* Bad — tight dependency chain */
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    acc = acc + data[i];   /* each iter waits on acc */

/* Better — multiple accumulators (ILP) */
acc0 = acc1 = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i += 2) {
    acc0 += data[i];
    acc1 += data[i+1];
}
acc = acc0 + acc1;

Pair with skills/low-level-programming/cpu-cache-opt — memory often dominates.

6. Reading uops / ports (x86)
bash
perf stat -e instructions,cycles,stalls-frontend,stalls-backend ./app

VTune "Microarchitecture Exploration" maps to pipeline slots.

7. Agent usage
/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards Explain RAW hazard in this ARM assembly loop and how to break it

Common Problems

SymptomCauseFix
High stalls-frontendI-cache misses / branch mispredictAlign hot loop; see branch skill
No speedup from unrollMemory boundProfile loads; prefetch
Wrong cycle modelIgnored OoO executionUse perf hardware counters
"NOP fixes it"Timing-sensitive MMIONever tune device delays by NOP
  • skills/computer-architecture/branch-prediction-and-speculation — mispredict cost
  • skills/computer-architecture/memory-hierarchy-and-caches — load latency
  • skills/low-level-programming/cpu-cache-opt — cache-line effects
  • skills/profilers/intel-vtune-amd-uprof — pipeline analysis
  • skills/low-level-programming/assembly-arm — instruction scheduling

© mohitmishra786, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/computer-architecture/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards of mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bdc5847

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Questions about Cpu Pipelines And Hazards

What does Cpu Pipelines And Hazards do?

CPU pipeline skill for hazards, forwarding, and stalls. An agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills. Cpu Pipelines And Hazards is an agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills. CPU pipeline skill for hazards, forwarding, and stalls.

When should I use Cpu Pipelines And Hazards?

Cpu Pipelines And Hazards fits situations like: explaining pipeline stages; data/control hazards; forwarding paths; branch stalls in performance analysis.

How do I install Cpu Pipelines And Hazards in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill cpu-pipelines-and-hazards -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/computer-architecture/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills) into .claude/skills/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Cpu Pipelines And Hazards in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill cpu-pipelines-and-hazards -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/computer-architecture/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills) into .agents/skills/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Cpu Pipelines And Hazards in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill cpu-pipelines-and-hazards -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards, .gemini/skills/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards, .github/skills/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards and .opencode/skills/cpu-pipelines-and-hazards in your project.

What does Cpu Pipelines And Hazards need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Cpu Pipelines And Hazards is instructions for the agent only.

Does Cpu Pipelines And Hazards access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Cpu Pipelines And Hazards safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Cpu Pipelines And Hazards use?

Cpu Pipelines And Hazards is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Cpu Pipelines And Hazards use?

About 808 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Cpu Pipelines And Hazards?

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Who maintains Cpu Pipelines And Hazards?

mohitmishra786 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills, which has 252 GitHub stars. The repository holds 138 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 27, 2026.

Source: mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.