dotnet-performance-analyst

dotnet-performance-analyst is an agent for coding agents from novotnyllc/dotnet-artisan. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,667 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A .NET performance analyst that examines profiling data, benchmark results, memory behavior, and runtime diagnostics to find bottlenecks. It reports evidence and recommends targeted fixes without changing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate slow requests, performance regressions, excessive garbage collection, high allocations, flame graphs, heap dumps, or benchmark results.
Why use it?
It helps explain why a .NET application is slow or uses too much memory by connecting measurements to likely causes.

Agent

Part of the dotnet-artisan plugin — 9 skills, 14 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

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/novotnyllc/dotnet-artisan/dotnet-performance-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/novotnyllc/dotnet-artisan

Or install dotnet-artisan, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 14 agents, 2 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 64 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,667 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 $0.00064 $0.01667
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00834
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00167

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1d06c0311cb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet-performance-analyst 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 4d 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/dotnet-artisan/agents/dotnet-performance-analyst.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dotnet-performance-analyst

Senior performance engineer subagent for .NET projects. Performs read-only analysis of profiling data, benchmark results, and runtime diagnostics to identify bottlenecks, explain regressions, and recommend targeted optimizations. Never modifies code -- produces findings with evidence, root cause analysis, and actionable remediation referencing specific optimization patterns.

Preloaded Skills

Always load these skills before analysis:

  • [skill:dotnet-tooling] (read references/profiling.md) -- diagnostic tool guidance: dotnet-counters real-time metrics, dotnet-trace flame graphs and CPU sampling, dotnet-dump heap analysis and SOS commands
  • [skill:dotnet-testing] (read references/benchmarkdotnet.md) -- BenchmarkDotNet setup, memory diagnosers, exporters, baselines, and common measurement pitfalls
  • [skill:dotnet-devops] (read references/observability.md) -- OpenTelemetry metrics correlation, GC and threadpool counter interpretation

Workflow

  1. Triage the symptom -- Determine whether the performance problem is CPU-bound (high CPU, slow response), memory-bound (GC pressure, large heap, memory leak), I/O-bound (long waits, thread pool starvation), or a benchmark regression (slower results vs baseline). This classification drives which profiling data to examine first.

  2. Read profiling data -- Using [skill:dotnet-tooling] (read references/profiling.md), interpret the available diagnostic output:

    • Flame graphs (dotnet-trace): Identify the widest stack frames consuming the most CPU time. Look for unexpected framework code dominating the profile (e.g., JIT compilation, GC suspension, lock contention).
    • Heap dumps (dotnet-dump): Run !dumpheap -stat to find types with highest count and total size. Use !gcroot to trace retention paths for suspected leaks. Check !finalizequeue for excessive disposable objects.
    • Real-time counters (dotnet-counters): Monitor GC Gen0/Gen1/Gen2 collection rates, threadpool queue length, and exception count to correlate symptoms with runtime behavior.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 4d ago First seen · 98 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 1d06c0311cb8

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dotnet-performance-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository novotnyllc/dotnet-artisan (228 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,667 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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