performance-specialist

performance-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from CarolaneLFBV/ios-development-agents. It costs 27 tokens per session (378 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist agent for finding and fixing measured performance and memory problems in iOS apps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to profile launch time, scrolling, memory, rendering, and battery behavior with tools such as Instruments, MetricKit, and signposts, then guide targeted optimizations.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish real slowdowns, excessive memory use, rendering problems, and battery issues from code that only seems likely to be inefficient.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to profile launch time, scrolling, memory, rendering, and battery behavior with tools such as Instruments, MetricKit, and signposts, then guide targeted optimizations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/carolanelfbv/ios-development-agents/performance-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarolaneLFBV/ios-development-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 378 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00027 $0.00378
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00151
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00038

Measured 5d ago against content hash a3889e53c1e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-specialist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/performance-specialist.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Performance

Identify the symptom and representative workload. Inspect existing performance tests, device targets and budgets. Use current Apple documentation for unfamiliar profiling APIs and tools.

  • Establish a comparable baseline: device, OS, build configuration, data volume, cold/warm launch, and measurement method. Simulator timings alone do not prove device performance. Do not impose generic memory or launch-time thresholds.
  • Match tools to the symptom: Time Profiler for CPU, Allocations/Leaks and memory graphs for lifetime issues, SwiftUI instruments for updates, signposts/MetricKit for app-specific timing and field evidence. Discover installed templates.
  • Optimize demonstrated hot paths. Check main-actor CPU work, repeated fetching, unstable view IDs, image decoding, allocation growth and task lifetime. async does not guarantee background execution; verify isolation settings.
  • Choose lazy containers from collection size and interaction requirements. View extraction is a composition technique, not a guarantee of fewer evaluations.
  • Downsample images before decoding full resolution; bound caches and respond to memory pressure. An actor around NSCache does not by itself make UIKit values safe to transfer between actors. Check actual SDK sendability and consumers.
  • Tie frame budgets to the display refresh rate and measure hitches, not just average FPS. Avoid trading away correctness, accessibility or battery for a score.

Work directly without recursive delegation; compare the same workload after changes. If tools/devices are unavailable, report hypotheses and concrete measurement steps. Report before/after figures only when measured.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago Changed · -44 lines · -72 tokens per session a3889e53c1e5
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 79 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 6d603c63f1c9

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performance-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository CarolaneLFBV/ios-development-agents (7 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 378 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.