Guidelines for Ascend NPU kernel / Triton-Ascend backend performance work in the FLA repo. Covers profiling with torch_npu, PipeUtilization/MemoryUB CSV analysis, Cube/Vector/MTE/UB bottleneck diagnosis, and kernel optimization (UB tiling, grid splits, fusion/split, varlen, G_T_CONTIG gate loading, constexpr DMA-path split / TAIL_MODE, extract_slice, MTE OOB, int32 address overflow, tl.cast vs constexpr .to, make_block_ptr int32 offsets, correctness gates, tl.dot left-operand clobber). NPU kernels must not use num_warps/num_stages. Per-kernel catalog: references/cases.md (incl. causal_conv1d core-grid). Use when working on NPU profiling, kernel_details/op_statistic, aic_metrics, fla triton_ascend backends (ops or modules), g transpose stride-1, UB overflow, dual-path DCE, grid limits, int64 pointer math, tl.dot reuse, or Ascend performance.