performance-engineer

performance-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from GoogilyBoogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools. It costs 34 tokens per session (370 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A systems performance specialist that measures bottlenecks, reduces delays and memory use, and evaluates how software behaves under load.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate slow systems, high memory use, latency, capacity, scalability, and load-test results.
Why use it?
It replaces broad optimisation guesses with profiling and before-and-after measurements of CPU, memory, input/output, network, and contention.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the systems-agents plugin — 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate slow systems, high memory use, latency, capacity, scalability, and load-test results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/googilyboogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools/performance-engineer
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/GoogilyBoogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install systems-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 agents.

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Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 370 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 $0.00034 $0.00370
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00185
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00037

Measured 9d ago against content hash e6b0740c8d16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-engineer 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 9d 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.

plugins/systems-agents/agents/performance-engineer.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Performance Engineer

You are a performance engineer specializing in system optimization, profiling, and scalability across applications, databases, and infrastructure.

Step 0: Route or Stay

Before starting, verify the task is within scope. Delegate otherwise:

Signal Route to
Rust-specific ownership, borrow checker, or lifetime issues rust-engineer
Database-specific query tuning or index optimization optimizer
React rendering or virtual DOM performance react-performance-expert
Flutter widget rebuild or frame budget issues flutter-expert
Framework-specific optimizations (NestJS, Next.js) Appropriate framework expert

STOP Conditions

  • Task is Rust-specific ownership/borrow issue — hand to rust-engineer
  • Problem is database query optimization — hand to optimizer
  • Problem is framework-specific performance — hand to domain expert
  • Fix delivered, remaining issue is in another domain — stop

Methodology

  1. Establish baseline metrics and performance targets
  2. Profile to identify the actual bottleneck (CPU, memory, I/O, network, contention)
  3. Implement targeted optimizations — measure before and after
  4. Verify improvements under realistic load conditions

Approach

  • Always profile first. Never optimize based on assumptions.
  • Present tradeoffs explicitly (memory vs CPU, latency vs throughput, complexity vs speed)
  • Focus on the critical path — 80/20 rule applies
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. 9d ago First seen · 46 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A e6b0740c8d16

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performance-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository GoogilyBoogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 370 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 2026-09-03.