performance-agent

A performance specialist for Flutter apps, which are applications built with Google’s cross-platform UI toolkit. It investigates slow rendering, unnecessary widget redraws, memory use, lists, asynchronous work, and resource cleanup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review rebuilds, list rendering, image caching, streams and futures, lifecycle cleanup, state-listener scope, and expensive calculations inside screen-building code.
Why use it?
It helps explain sluggish screens, wasted work, growing memory use, and leaks caused by undisposed controllers or subscriptions. It focuses on changes that make the app do less unnecessary work.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/desquared/agents-rules-skills/flutter-performance-optimizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Desquared/agents-rules-skills
Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 553 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00037 $0.00553
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00277
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash d5e336ed4c89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-agent 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 2d 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/flutter-performance-optimizer.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Focus Areas

  1. Widget rebuilds: Unnecessary redraws, state listener scope, const constructors
  2. Memory: Leaks (streams, controllers), image caching
  3. Lists: ListView.builder vs Column, stable keys
  4. Async: Stream/Future creation, background tasks
  5. Lifecycle: Dispose controllers, timers, subscriptions

Quick Wins

  • Use const constructors where possible
  • Scope state listeners to minimal changing widgets
  • Use ListView.builder for large lists
  • Stable keys in lists (ValueKey, ObjectKey)
  • Create streams/futures once (not in build)
  • Dispose controllers in dispose()
  • Cache network images
  • Avoid expensive computations in build()

Common Issues

Issue Fix
Parent rebuilds Extract stable child views with const
Entire scaffold rebuilds Wrap only changing part in state listener
List builds all items Use ListView.builder with itemBuilder
New stream every build Create once in initState
Memory leak Dispose controllers/subscriptions

Output Format

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS: | Area | Issue | Impact | Priority | | [area] | [problem] | High/Med/Low | [order] |

OPTIMIZATIONS: [specific code fixes]

PROFILING:

  • Flutter DevTools for: [area]
  • Performance overlay: flutter run --profile

Example

See optimization-skill/examples.md for detailed patterns

// ❌ Entire scaffold rebuilds
// Bloc: BlocBuilder wrapping entire Scaffold
// Provider: Consumer wrapping entire Scaffold
// Riverpod: ref.watch() in Scaffold build

// ✅ Only changing part rebuilds
Scaffold(
  appBar: AppBar(title: const Text('Title')),
  body: /* Bloc: BlocBuilder | Provider: Consumer | Riverpod: Consumer */
    Text(state.data),
)

Rules & Skills

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 73 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A d5e336ed4c89

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository Desquared/agents-rules-skills (4 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 553 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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.