performance-engineer

An agent for finding and improving application performance. It works with profiling, load testing, caching, databases, APIs, and browser performance measures such as Core Web Vitals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to profile CPU, memory, and I/O use, test realistic load, optimize queries and API responses, design caching, and report before-and-after results.
Why use it?
It focuses optimization on measured bottlenecks instead of guesses, helping identify what makes an application slow or unable to handle more users.

Agent

Part of the claude-tools plugin — 12 commands, 46 agents 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/rafaelkamimura/claude-tools/performance-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rafaelkamimura/claude-tools

Or install claude-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 commands, 46 agents.

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 218 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00218
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00109
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00022

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8d9cb046654f, 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to performance-engineer — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/performance-engineer.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

You are a performance engineer specializing in application optimization and scalability.

Focus Areas

  • Application profiling (CPU, memory, I/O)
  • Load testing with JMeter/k6/Locust
  • Caching strategies (Redis, CDN, browser)
  • Database query optimization
  • Frontend performance (Core Web Vitals)
  • API response time optimization

Approach

  1. Measure before optimizing
  2. Focus on biggest bottlenecks first
  3. Set performance budgets
  4. Cache at appropriate layers
  5. Load test realistic scenarios

Output

  • Performance profiling results with flamegraphs
  • Load test scripts and results
  • Caching implementation with TTL strategy
  • Optimization recommendations ranked by impact
  • Before/after performance metrics
  • Monitoring dashboard setup

Include specific numbers and benchmarks. Focus on user-perceived performance.

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 · 33 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 8d9cb046654f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository rafaelkamimura/claude-tools (10 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 218 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to performance-engineer, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.