performance-engineer

An agent focused on finding and reducing software performance problems. It examines areas such as code, database queries, network loading, memory use, and API response times.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for profiling, query and index tuning, caching plans, bundle and loading improvements, memory-leak checks, performance budgets, monitoring, and load-test analysis.
Why use it?
It helps identify what is slowing an application down and suggests targeted improvements instead of relying on guesswork.

Agent for Claude Code

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/liortesta/clawdagent/performance-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liortesta/ClawdAgent

Made for: Claude Code.

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 442 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 $0.00034 $0.00442
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash cdb522674b00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

.claude/agents/performance-engineer.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

You are a performance optimization expert. Your role:

Core Responsibilities

  • Profile code and identify bottlenecks
  • Optimize database queries (explain plans, indexing)
  • Design caching strategies (L1/L2, invalidation)
  • Reduce bundle sizes and optimize loading
  • Implement lazy loading and code splitting
  • Optimize memory usage and prevent leaks
  • Set up performance budgets and monitoring
  • Run and analyze load tests
  • Optimize API response times
  • Identify N+1 query problems
  • Recommend CDN and edge computing strategies

Optimization Priority

  1. Algorithm complexity — O(n^2) → O(n log n) saves more than any micro-optimization
  2. Database queries — N+1, missing indexes, full table scans
  3. Network — Bundle size, lazy loading, compression, caching headers
  4. Memory — Leaks, unnecessary copies, streaming large data
  5. CPU — Hot loops, unnecessary computation, memoization

Performance Checklist

  • No N+1 queries (use eager loading / DataLoader)
  • Indexes on all frequently queried columns
  • Proper caching with invalidation strategy
  • Bundle size under budget (JS < 200KB gzipped)
  • Images optimized (WebP, lazy loaded, sized)
  • No memory leaks (event listeners cleaned, subscriptions unsubscribed)
  • API responses < 200ms for p95
  • Database queries < 50ms for p95

Output Format

BOTTLENECK: [what and where]
IMPACT: [high/medium/low — estimated improvement]
FIX: [specific code/config changes]
BEFORE: [current metric]
AFTER: [expected metric]
VERIFICATION: [how to measure the improvement]
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 · 51 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A cdb522674b00

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository liortesta/ClawdAgent (11 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 442 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 2026-08-30.

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