LunarG creates tools to help simplify Vulkan development. We leveraged the new Vulkan Layer Factory to create the Vulkan Assistant Layer, a layer that helps developers identify Vulkan best practices. The Vulkan Assistant Layer — VK_LAYER_LUNARG_assistant_layer — functions as a Vulkan best practices layer and is intended to highlight potential performance issues, questionable usage patterns, common mistakes, and items that may lead to application problems that are not specifically prohibited by the Vulkan specification. The Vulkan Assistant Layer can be found as part of the LunarG Vulkan SDK.