# android-benchmark-comparison

Enforces a reproducible procedure for comparing physical Android benchmark configurations. Helps resolve reversed rankings and pick measured defaults safely.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 329 installs · ★ 1120
- Author: chrisbanes
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/chrisbanes/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/android-benchmark-comparison/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/android-benchmark-comparison

## What it does

Treats physical Android benchmark comparisons as reproducible experiments. The skill requires recording exact build IDs, thermal states, brightness levels, and background loads before analyzing results. Missing or failed runs must be tracked explicitly. Slower iterations cannot be discarded after seeing the numbers, and run orders must be balanced or reversed across repetitions.

When rankings reverse between runs, any default decision is put on hold. Resolving these reversals requires inspecting hardware traces for thread contention, thermal changes, and CPU placement during overlapping timestamps. Fixed-performance mode does not prove CPU placement. If CPU affinity was adjusted, the original topology must be verified, restored, and checked again before the next benchmark run.

This skill does not diagnose Compose code issues without a configuration comparison. CPU frame duration does not measure GPU shader execution. Hardware parameters like CPU masks or screen brightness belong in a project runbook, not as hardcoded repository defaults.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add chrisbanes/skills --skill android-benchmark-comparison -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/android-benchmark-comparison/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/android-benchmark-comparison/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add chrisbanes/skills --skill android-benchmark-comparison -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/android-benchmark-comparison/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add chrisbanes/skills --skill android-benchmark-comparison -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/android-benchmark-comparison/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install chrisbanes/skills android-benchmark-comparison
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/android-benchmark-comparison/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add chrisbanes/skills --skill android-benchmark-comparison -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/chrisbanes/skills --path skills/android-benchmark-comparison
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/android-benchmark-comparison/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add chrisbanes/skills --skill android-benchmark-comparison -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/chrisbanes/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/android-benchmark-comparison/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- compare physical Android benchmark configurations using reproducible experiments
- investigate reversed configuration rankings across benchmark repetitions
- verify CPU affinity and fixed-performance modes against trace timestamps
- aggregate unrounded observations without discarding slower iterations

## Example prompts
- "Help me compare benchmark results between two configurations on a physical Android device."
- "Investigate why configuration rankings reversed between our initial and repeat benchmark runs."
- "Check overlapping trace timestamps to verify CPU placement and confirm affinity restoration."

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: android-benchmark-comparison
description: Use when comparing physical Android benchmark configurations, investigating inconsistent rankings, or selecting an Android default from measured results. Do not use for code-level Compose performance diagnosis without a configuration comparison.
---

# Android benchmark comparison

## Core principle

Treat a physical Android configuration comparison as a reproducible experiment:
verify comparable workloads and device conditions before interpreting a ranking
or choosing a default.

## Procedure

1. State the decision, configurations, workloads, metric definitions, and
   repetitions. Preserve exact build identity, configuration, raw results, and
   traces; then verify every intended case and iteration ran. Distinguish
   missing, failed, and excluded runs; do not compare only the fastest
   survivors.
2. Control and record relevant device conditions, including device model and
   state, thermal and power mode, display brightness, background load, and
   network or input conditions. Keep device-specific commands and CPU masks in
   the project's runbook.
3. Balance or reverse run order and repeat the comparison. Report the spread
   and whether the ordering holds; do not discard slow iterations after seeing
   the result.
4. When rankings reverse or variability is material, defer a firm default
   decision until the reversal is resolved. Give the complete next comparison,
   not just its first blocker: confirm the same named cases and iterations,
   repeat with balanced or reversed run order, and inspect trace data whose
   timestamps overlap each measured interval for placement, contention, or
   thermal changes. Fixed-performance mode does not
   prove CPU placement. If an affinity experiment was attempted, discover the
   device topology and verify placement during the measured interval. Restore
   the recorded original affinity settings after the experiment and verify that
   restoration before another run; do not merely note that restoration needs
   checking. Label verified affinity runs as controlled comparisons. If the
   original settings or any other check are unavailable, state the gap and keep
   any default choice explicitly provisional.
5. Calculate summaries from unrounded observations, then round only for
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