Collecting Flows Safely

by skydoves

Collecting Flows Safely is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by skydoves in compose-performance-skills.

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Install Collecting Flows Safely

Copy Collecting Flows Safely into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/skydoves/compose-performance-skills/tree/main/side-effects/collecting-flows-safely ~/.claude/skills/collecting-flows-safely

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/skydoves/compose-performance-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: side-effects/collecting-flows-safely/SKILL.md in skydoves/compose-performance-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/collecting-flows-safely
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Collecting Flows Safely does

Collecting Flows Safely helps migrate Compose screens from collectAsState() to collectAsStateWithLifecycle() and tame high-frequency flows with conflate(), distinctUntilChanged(), and snapshotFlow. Use it when background collection, unstable Flow parameters, or chatty streams are causing wasted work or extra recompositions.

Collecting Flows Safely is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Collecting Flows Safely comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, android, claude, claude-code and compose.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Collecting Flows Safely — keep upstream work tied to the UI lifecycle

collectAsState() keeps collecting whenever the composable is in composition, including while the app is backgrounded — that wastes CPU and battery. collectAsStateWithLifecycle() ties collection to a Lifecycle.State (default STARTED) so backgrounding pauses upstream work. For chatty flows, pair the consumer with .conflate() and .distinctUntilChanged() so Compose only sees meaningful changes. Skydoves hot take #4: a Flow<T> parameter on a composable is unstable and blocks skipping for the whole composable — collect at the caller and pass the resolved value.

When to use this skill

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Collecting Flows Safely

What else does skydoves publish alongside Collecting Flows Safely?
Collecting Flows Safely is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from skydoves/compose-performance-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Auditing Compose Performance, Avoiding Subcomposition Pitfalls and Choosing DerivedStateOf. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Collecting Flows Safely does, and is maintained by skydoves in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the skydoves/compose-performance-skills page.
How does Collecting Flows Safely compare to other Quality skills?
Collecting Flows Safely ranks #1221 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Collecting Flows Safely against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.