Agent skill

List Virtualization

by thedaviddias in thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist

A skill your agent uses when reviewing dashboards, admin tables, search results, or feeds with many repeated items.

MITAuto-check passed

Install List Virtualization

skills CLI
$ npx skills add thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist --skill list-virtualization -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist list-virtualization --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/thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/list-virtualization .claude/skills/list-virtualization && 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
list-virtualization
GitHub stars
74k
Token cost
~553 tokens
SKILL.md length
233 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
390
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when reviewing dashboards, admin tables, search results, or feeds with many repeated items.

  • Reviewing dashboards
  • SKILL.md covers Quick Reference, Check, Fix and Explain, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Feeds with many repeated items

What it does

List Virtualization is an agent skill from thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist. Use when reviewing dashboards, admin tables, search results, or feeds with many repeated items. Confirm the bottleneck is DOM or rendering cost before introducing virtualization because small lists usually do not need the added complexity.

Its SKILL.md is about 550 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/rule.md`).

The repository describes itself as: 🗂 The essential checklist for modern web development, for humans and AI agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Reviewing dashboards
  • Feeds with many repeated items

Example prompts

  • “/list-virtualization”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e8d14d0. 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.

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • frontendchecklist.io

    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

List Virtualization loads about 553 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 65 tokens; SKILL.md has 233 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~65
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~553
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.4k

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 thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist at commit e8d14d0, republished under its MIT licence (© thedaviddias). 233 words, ~553 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/list-virtualization/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
list-virtualization
description
Use when reviewing dashboards, admin tables, search results, or feeds with many repeated items. Confirm the bottleneck is DOM or rendering cost before introducing virtualization because small lists usually do not need the added complexity.
metadata.category
performance
metadata.priority
high
metadata.difficulty
intermediate
metadata.estimatedTime
25
metadata.source
frontendchecklist.io
metadata.url
https://frontendchecklist.io/rules/performance/list-virtualization

Virtualize long lists and tables

Rendering hundreds or thousands of rows at once wastes memory and makes style calculation, layout, and painting more expensive. Virtualization keeps large collections responsive by limiting the number of mounted nodes.

Quick Reference

  • Render only what is visible plus a small overscan buffer instead of the entire list
  • Use virtualization when repeated rows or cards push DOM size and layout cost too high
  • Preserve item sizing, keyboard access, and screen-reader semantics when windowing content
  • Measure scroll smoothness, memory use, and DOM node count before and after the change

Check

Inspect long lists, tables, grids, and feeds for places where the UI renders every item at once. Flag views where the number of mounted rows or cards is large enough to create DOM, memory, or scroll-performance issues.

Fix

Introduce list or table virtualization so only the visible rows plus overscan render, while preserving sizing, keyboard navigation, and any required sticky headers or selection behavior.

Explain

Explain list virtualization, why it improves performance for large collections, and the tradeoffs engineers need to watch for around measurement and accessibility.

Code Review

Inspect collection components, data tables, infinite feeds, and dashboards. Flag places where rendering the full dataset creates excessive DOM nodes or scroll jank, and verify the virtualization strategy still preserves item identity, semantics, and expected interactions.


For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance, see references/rule.md.

Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/rules/performance/list-virtualization

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

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/list-virtualization of thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/rule.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e8d14d0

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Live DashboardNousResearch/hermes-agent252k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Table Fitasgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks69k—~772Automated safety check: PassCC0-1.0
Live Dashboardnexu-io/open-design100k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Questions about List Virtualization

What does List Virtualization do?

A skill your agent uses when reviewing dashboards, admin tables, search results, or feeds with many repeated items. List Virtualization is an agent skill from thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist. Use when reviewing dashboards, admin tables, search results, or feeds with many repeated items.

When should I use List Virtualization?

List Virtualization fits situations like: reviewing dashboards; feeds with many repeated items.

How do I install List Virtualization in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist --skill list-virtualization -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/list-virtualization in thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist) into .claude/skills/list-virtualization in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install List Virtualization in Codex?

Run `npx skills add thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist --skill list-virtualization -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/list-virtualization in thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist) into .agents/skills/list-virtualization in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use List Virtualization 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 thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist --skill list-virtualization -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/list-virtualization, .gemini/skills/list-virtualization, .github/skills/list-virtualization and .opencode/skills/list-virtualization in your project.

What does List Virtualization need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: List Virtualization is instructions for the agent only.

Does List Virtualization access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: frontendchecklist.io. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is List Virtualization 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 List Virtualization use?

List Virtualization 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 List Virtualization use?

About 553 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 804 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to List Virtualization?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with List Virtualization: Admin (yc-software/qm, 15k stars), Dashboard (InsForge/InsForge, 13k stars), Live Dashboard (NousResearch/hermes-agent, 252k stars) and Table Fit (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains List Virtualization?

thedaviddias (a GitHub user) maintains it in thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, which has 74,398 GitHub stars. The repository holds 390 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.