# wasm-compatibility

Checks whether a marimo notebook can run in the browser through WebAssembly, and reports what breaks.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 3000 installs · ★ 175
- Author: marimo-team
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/marimo-team/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/wasm-compatibility/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-08-19
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/wasm-compatibility

## What it does

The skill reads a marimo notebook and runs three built-in lint rules: `marimo check <notebook> --select MW --format json`. MW001 catches imports missing or broken in Pyodide, MW002 flags calls like `os.system()` and `signal.signal()`, MW003 resolves the PEP 723 dependency tree and looks for a WASM-compatible wheel on PyPI.

Static lint leaves gaps, so the skill also checks by hand. It looks for a `# /// script` block and whether every imported package is listed in `dependencies`, then scans for environment variable reads, absolute paths and large in-memory datasets. Concurrency gets its own warning: `threading.Thread` and `multiprocessing.Process` run through cooperative adapters in WASM, so the code executes but one task at a time. If a notebook depends on real parallel speedup, that is worth rewriting.

The output is a PASS, WARN or FAIL verdict, the lint diagnostics verbatim, manual findings and fix suggestions. When a package has no WASM build, two escape hatches exist. Precompute and cache the result with `cache_cells = true` plus `marimo export html-wasm ... --execute`, or use a compatibility layer that runs the real computation in the browser. The first one will not cover an input space you cannot enumerate ahead of time.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add marimo-team/skills --skill wasm-compatibility -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add marimo-team/skills --skill wasm-compatibility -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add marimo-team/skills --skill wasm-compatibility -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install marimo-team/skills wasm-compatibility
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/wasm-compatibility/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add marimo-team/skills --skill wasm-compatibility -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/marimo-team/skills --path skills/wasm-compatibility
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add marimo-team/skills --skill wasm-compatibility -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/marimo-team/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/wasm-compatibility/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find out if a marimo notebook runs in the playground or an exported WASM HTML file
- catch Pyodide-incompatible imports before publishing a notebook
- check a PEP 723 dependency tree for a WASM-compatible wheel
- tell sequential WASM execution apart from real parallelism
- choose between precomputed caching and a browser-side compatibility layer

## Example prompts
- check `analysis.py` for WASM compatibility
- run wasm-compatibility on `notebook.py` and show me the report
- my notebook fails in the marimo playground — check it for WASM issues

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

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---
name: wasm-compatibility
description: Check if a marimo notebook is compatible with WebAssembly (WASM) and report any issues.
---

# WASM Compatibility Checker for marimo Notebooks

Check whether a marimo notebook can run in a WebAssembly (WASM) environment — the marimo playground, community cloud, or exported WASM HTML.

## Instructions

### 1. Read the notebook

Read the target notebook file. If the user doesn't specify one, ask which notebook to check.

### 2. Run marimo's WASM lint rules

marimo ships three lint rules that catch most WASM incompatibilities automatically. Run them first, and build the report from their output instead of re-deriving these checks by hand:

```bash
marimo check <notebook> --select MW --format json
```

- **MW001** `incompatible-import` — stdlib modules missing or non-functional in Pyodide (`subprocess`, `pdb`, `dbm`, `resource`, `fcntl`, `termios`, `readline`, `curses`, `tkinter`, `pydecimal`, `test`), plus multiprocessing exports and submodules that need native synchronization, shared memory, pipes, or process forking (`Lock`, `Condition`, `Semaphore`, `Barrier`, `Manager`, `Pipe`, `RLock`, `shared_memory`, `ForkContext`/`ForkProcess`, `ThreadPool`, and others). `Process`, `Queue`, `SimpleQueue`, `Pool`, and `ProcessPoolExecutor` stay allowed — they run on WASM-compatible cooperative adapters (see step 3).
- **MW002** `unsafe-system-call` — calls such as `os.system()`, `os.fork()`, `signal.signal()`, `breakpoint()` that fail in Pyodide even when the import itself succeeds.
- **MW003** `incompatible-package` — resolves the notebook's PEP 723 dependency tree (skipping anything excluded by a `sys_platform != 'emscripten'` marker) and checks PyPI for a WASM-compatible wheel, catching cases like `jaxlib` pulled in transitively through `jax`.

**Caveat:** MW001 flags import statements (`from multiprocessing import Lock`, `import multiprocessing.synchronize`), not later attribute access. A bare `import multiprocessing` followed by `multiprocessing.Lock()` deeper in the code can slip through. For notebooks with concurrency code, skim for this by hand too.
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