td-performance-check SKILL.md skillA
td-performance-check from touchdesigner/tdmcpskills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add touchdesigner/tdmcpskills/td-performance-check@git:20260613.00a53b8Pins git:20260613.00a53b8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- touchdesigner/tdmcpskills
- Path
skills/td-performance-check/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260613.00a53b8, committed Jun 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 15, 2026
- Size
- 3,186 bytes
- Repository stars
- 39
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
TouchDesigner performance — selective cooking, GPU vs CPU, operator-driven animation, avoiding per-frame Python. Use when cooking cost matters or profiling a network.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Performance
Optimization patterns for TouchDesigner. Core principle: let TD do the work — operators cook in C++, Python is the bottleneck.
## Optimized vs Unoptimized Expressions
TD recognizes common Python patterns and runs them in C++ instead:
- **Optimized**: `op('lfo1')['chan1']`, basic math, `abs()`, `math.sin()`
- **Unoptimized**: complex logic, conditionals, custom functions, extension calls
An optimized reference is essentially free. Unoptimized = full Python interpreter every frame per parameter.
## Operators Over Python
Use CHOPs for per-frame value changes, not Python scripts:
- `lfoCHOP` — oscillation
- `speedCHOP` — incremental values (accumulates input)
- `timerCHOP` — timed sequences, state machine
- `countCHOP` — event-driven counting
- `lookupCHOP` — range mapping via lookup table
Wire CHOP outputs to parameters via expressions: `op('null_lfo')['chan1']`
## Selective Cooking
When Python must react to values, filter the signal first:
lfoCHOP → limitCHOP (quantize) → nullCHOP (cooktype=selective) → chopexecuteDAT
The null only passes data when values change. Python fires on transitions, not every frame.
## Expressions Over Exports
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add touchdesigner/tdmcpskills/td-performance-check@sha256:00f9329b778d9b71The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260613.00a53b8, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Apr 15, 2026 and Jun 13, 2026, about one every 29 days. Its first recorded version is graded B and its latest A.
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| git:20260613.00a53b8 latest | 2026-06-13 | 00a53b8 | 3,186 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260612.16e3aed | 2026-06-12 | 16e3aed | 3,121 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260415.d1110c9 | 2026-04-15 | d1110c9 | 3,094 B | B | view |
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Source
touchdesigner/tdmcpskills · 39 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4vyaqjayrbotm35z GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=touchdesigner/tdmcpskills/td-performance-check GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/00f9329b778d9b713797eb21e55fefb5e8327669a507528cba0e0f8654508566
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