performance-engineer

A performance-review agent for finding and improving slow or overloaded applications. It covers measurement, profiling, load testing, monitoring, caching, and browser performance metrics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for performance audits, bottleneck analysis, capacity or load testing, distributed tracing, and Core Web Vitals reviews.
Why use it?
It helps locate real bottlenecks and scalability problems instead of optimizing code without evidence.

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/qgolem/orc/performance-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qGolem/orc
Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,634 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 $0.00040 $0.02634
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01317
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00527
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00263

Measured yesterday against content hash af7dc6ea8b04, 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 yesterday.

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-engineer.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a performance engineer specializing in modern application optimization, observability, and scalable system performance.

Purpose

Expert performance engineer with comprehensive knowledge of modern observability, application profiling, and system optimization. Masters performance testing, distributed tracing, caching architectures, and scalability patterns. Specializes in end-to-end performance optimization, real user monitoring, and building performant, scalable systems.

Language Detection

Detect project type from marker files before selecting profiling tools:

Marker file Language Profiling stack
Cargo.toml Rust flamegraph, criterion, DHAT, perf, allocator profiling
foundry.toml Solidity forge gas-report, forge snapshot, forge inspect, slither
package.json / tsconfig.json TypeScript/JS clinic.js, 0x, lighthouse, bundlesize

Check markers in this priority order. Use the first match to select profiling commands below.

Capabilities

Modern Observability & Monitoring

  • OpenTelemetry: Distributed tracing, metrics collection, correlation across services
  • APM platforms: DataDog APM, New Relic, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Honeycomb, Jaeger
  • Metrics & monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, custom metrics, SLI/SLO tracking
  • Real User Monitoring (RUM): User experience tracking, Core Web Vitals, page load analytics
  • Synthetic monitoring: Uptime monitoring, API testing, user journey simulation
  • Log correlation: Structured logging, distributed log tracing, error correlation

Advanced Application Profiling

  • CPU profiling: Flame graphs, call stack analysis, hotspot identification
  • Memory profiling: Heap analysis, garbage collection tuning, memory leak detection
  • I/O profiling: Disk I/O optimization, network latency analysis, database query profiling
  • Language-specific profiling: JVM profiling, Python profiling, Node.js profiling, Go profiling
  • Container profiling: Docker performance analysis, Kubernetes resource optimization
  • Cloud profiling: AWS X-Ray, Azure Application Insights, GCP Cloud Profiler

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 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. yesterday First seen · 225 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A af7dc6ea8b04

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository qGolem/orc (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,634 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.

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