LLVM passes skill for writing compiler optimizations. An agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.

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Install Llvm Passes

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill llvm-passes -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills llvm-passes --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/compiler-internals/llvm-passes .claude/skills/llvm-passes && rm -rf skills-src

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

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Facts

Skill name
llvm-passes
GitHub stars
252
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
261 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
138
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

LLVM passes skill for writing compiler optimizations. An agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.

  • Works in 8 steps: New Pass Manager architecture → Minimal FunctionPass (C++ plugin) → Running with opt → …
  • Writing FunctionPass
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, When to Use, Workflow and Common Problems, plus 1 more section
  • Calls cmake

What it does

Llvm Passes is an agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills. LLVM passes skill for writing compiler optimizations. Use when writing FunctionPass or ModulePass, registering PassPlugins, running with opt, using analysis utilities, or testing with llvm-lit. Activates on queries about LLVM pass, PassPlugin, opt -passes, DominatorTree, llvm-lit, or New Pass Manager.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development. 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

  • Writing FunctionPass
  • Registering PassPlugins
  • Running with opt
  • Using analysis utilities

Example prompts

  • “/llvm-passes”

Workflow steps

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

  1. New Pass Manager architecture
  2. Minimal FunctionPass (C++ plugin)
  3. Running with opt
  4. ModulePass example
  5. Analysis utilities
  6. IR modification patterns
  7. llvm-lit testing
  8. Debugging passes

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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • cmake

    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

Llvm Passes loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 79 tokens; SKILL.md has 261 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~79
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

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). 261 words, ~1,772 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/llvm-passes/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
llvm-passes
description
LLVM passes skill for writing compiler optimizations. Use when writing FunctionPass or ModulePass, registering PassPlugins, running with opt, using analysis utilities, or testing with llvm-lit. Activates on queries about LLVM pass, PassPlugin, opt -passes, DominatorTree, llvm-lit, or New Pass Manager.

LLVM Passes

Purpose

Guide agents through writing LLVM optimization passes with the New Pass Manager: FunctionPass and ModulePass structure, PassPluginLibraryInfo registration, running via opt -load-pass-plugin, common analysis utilities (DominatorTree, LoopInfo, AliasAnalysis), IR modification patterns, llvm-lit testing, and debugging with opt -print-after-all.

When to Use

  • Adding a custom optimization to an LLVM-based compiler
  • Writing an IR transformation pass (inlining, DCE, custom lowering)
  • Analyzing control flow with dominator trees or loop info
  • Testing passes with FileCheck and llvm-lit
  • Debugging pass ordering and IR corruption
  • Integrating passes into Clang via plugin

Workflow

1. New Pass Manager architecture
opt / clang
├── ModulePassManager
│   └── FunctionPassManager (per function)
│       └── FunctionPass instances
└── AnalysisManager (cached analyses)

Passes declare analysis usage; analyses are invalidated on IR mutation.

2. Minimal FunctionPass (C++ plugin)
cpp
// MyPass.cpp
#include "llvm/IR/PassManager.h"
#include "llvm/Passes/PassBuilder.h"
#include "llvm/Passes/PassPlugin.h"
#include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"

using namespace llvm;

namespace {

struct MyPass : PassInfoMixin<MyPass> {
    PreservedAnalyses run(Function &F, FunctionAnalysisManager &AM) {
        bool changed = false;
        for (BasicBlock &BB : F) {
            for (Instruction &I : BB) {
                if (auto *Call = dyn_cast<CallInst>(&I)) {
                    if (Call->getCalledFunction() &&
                        Call->getCalledFunction()->getName() == "dead_func") {
                        Call->eraseFromParent();
                        changed = true;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return changed ? PreservedAnalyses::none() : PreservedAnalyses::all();
    }
};

} // namespace

extern "C" LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_WEAK PassPluginLibraryInfo llvmGetPassPluginInfo() {
    return {
        LLVM_PLUGIN_API_VERSION, "MyPass", "v0.1",
        [](PassBuilder &PB) {
            PB.registerPipelineParsingCallback(
                [](StringRef Name, FunctionPassManager &FPM,
                   ArrayRef<PassBuilder::PipelineElement>) {
                    if (Name == "my-pass") {
                        FPM.addPass(MyPass());
                        return true;
                    }
                    return false;
                });
        }
    };
}
cmake
# CMakeLists.txt
find_package(LLVM REQUIRED CONFIG)
add_library(MyPass MODULE MyPass.cpp)
target_include_directories(MyPass SYSTEM PRIVATE ${LLVM_INCLUDE_DIRS})
target_compile_definitions(MyPass PRIVATE ${LLVM_DEFINITIONS})
llvm_map_components_to_libnames(llvm_libs core passes support)
target_link_libraries(MyPass PRIVATE ${llvm_libs})
bash
cmake -B build -DLLVM_DIR=$(llvm-config --cmakedir)
cmake --build build
3. Running with opt
bash
# Run pass on IR file
opt -load-pass-plugin ./build/MyPass.so -passes=my-pass -S input.ll -o output.ll

# Print IR after each pass
opt -load-pass-plugin ./build/MyPass.so -passes=my-pass -print-after-all input.ll -o /dev/null

# Pass pipeline string
opt -passes="function(instcombine),my-pass,function(dce)" input.ll -S -o out.ll
4. ModulePass example
cpp
struct MyModulePass : PassInfoMixin<MyModulePass> {
    PreservedAnalyses run(Module &M, ModuleAnalysisManager &AM) {
        for (Function &F : M) {
            if (F.isDeclaration()) continue;
            // module-level transformation
        }
        return PreservedAnalyses::none();
    }
};

Register on ModulePassManager in plugin callback.

5. Analysis utilities
cpp
#include "llvm/Analysis/DominatorTree.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/LoopInfo.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/AliasAnalysis.h"

PreservedAnalyses run(Function &F, FunctionAnalysisManager &AM) {
    auto &DT = AM.getResult<DominatorTreeAnalysis>(F);
    auto &LI = AM.getResult<LoopAnalysis>(F);
    auto &AA = AM.getResult<AAManager>(F);

    for (Loop *L : LI) {
        BasicBlock *Header = L->getHeader();
        // Loop invariant code motion, etc.
    }

    DominatorTreeNode *IDom = DT.getNode(&F.getEntryBlock());
    (void)IDom;
    return PreservedAnalyses::all();
}

Declare analyses used:

cpp
AnalysisUsage MyLegacyPass::getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const {
    AU.addRequired<DominatorTreeWrapperPass>();
    AU.addRequired<LoopInfoWrapperPass>();
    return AU;
}

(New PM: analyses requested via AM.getResult<> — dependency auto-tracked.)

6. IR modification patterns
cpp
// Insert instruction before iterator
IRBuilder<> Builder(&*I.getIterator());
Value *NewVal = Builder.CreateAdd(I.getOperand(0), ConstantInt::get(I.getType(), 1));
I.replaceAllUsesWith(NewVal);
I.eraseFromParent();

// Clone basic block
BasicBlock *Clone = CloneBasicBlock(OrigBB, VMap, ".clone", &F);

// Create function
FunctionCallee Fn = M.getOrInsertFunction("my_fn",
    FunctionType::get(Builder.getVoidTy(), false));

Always update SSA and invalidate analyses after structural changes.

7. llvm-lit testing
test/
├── lit.cfg.py
└── my-pass.test
# my-pass.test
# RUN: opt -load-pass-plugin %shlibdir/MyPass.so -passes=my-pass -S %s | FileCheck %s

define void @test() {
  call void @dead_func()
  ret void
}

; CHECK-NOT: dead_func
bash
llvm-lit test/my-pass.test -v
8. Debugging passes
bash
# Verify IR after pass
opt -load-pass-plugin ./MyPass.so -passes=my-pass input.ll -o out.ll
opt -verify-each out.ll

# Time passes
opt -passes=my-pass -time-passes input.ll -o /dev/null

# Debug pass manager
OPT_DEBUG=1 opt -passes=my-pass input.ll -o /dev/null

Common Problems

SymptomCauseFix
Pass not found: my-passPlugin not loaded or name mismatchCheck registerPipelineParsingCallback name
Verify module failedBroken SSA after transformRun -verify-each; check use-def chains
Analysis staleModified IR without invalidationReturn PreservedAnalyses::none()
Plugin load errorLLVM version mismatchBuild against same LLVM as opt
Empty opt outputForgot -SAdd -S for textual IR
lit test FAILCHECK line mismatchopt -S and compare manually
  • skills/compilers/llvm — LLVM IR inspection and opt pipeline as user
  • skills/compiler-internals/compiler-frontend — IR generation feeding passes
  • skills/compiler-internals/jit-compilation — ORC JIT running optimized IR
  • skills/compiler-internals/mlir — MLIR passes (similar concepts)
  • skills/compilers/clang — Clang optimization flags
  • skills/build-systems/cmake — building pass plugins

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/compiler-internals/llvm-passes of mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bdc5847

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Questions about Llvm Passes

What does Llvm Passes do?

LLVM passes skill for writing compiler optimizations. An agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills. Llvm Passes is an agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills. LLVM passes skill for writing compiler optimizations.

When should I use Llvm Passes?

Llvm Passes fits situations like: writing FunctionPass; registering PassPlugins; running with opt; using analysis utilities.

How do I install Llvm Passes in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill llvm-passes -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/compiler-internals/llvm-passes in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills) into .claude/skills/llvm-passes in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Llvm Passes in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill llvm-passes -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/compiler-internals/llvm-passes in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills) into .agents/skills/llvm-passes in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Llvm Passes 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 llvm-passes -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/llvm-passes, .gemini/skills/llvm-passes, .github/skills/llvm-passes and .opencode/skills/llvm-passes in your project.

What does Llvm Passes need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Llvm Passes needs the command-line tools its instructions call (cmake).

Does Llvm Passes 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 Llvm Passes 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 Llvm Passes use?

Llvm Passes 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 Llvm Passes use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Llvm Passes?

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.

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