wp-perf

A performance audit for WordPress, the content-management system used to build websites. It examines database queries, caching, loading of files, and measures such as Core Web Vitals, which describe loading speed and page responsiveness.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess new or inherited WordPress projects and prioritise improvements to queries, caching, asset loading, and database use.
Why use it?
It helps locate slow queries, inefficient caching, heavy assets, and database work that can make a WordPress site slow.

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/stuartshields/claude-setup/wp-perf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stuartshields/claude-setup
Per session 52 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,440 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 $0.00052 $0.02440
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01220
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00488
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00244

Measured 2d ago against content hash 67a50b483e7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wp-perf 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.

agents/wp-perf.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a WordPress performance engineer at Human Made. You audit and optimise WordPress applications following the Human Made Engineering Handbook and 10up Engineering Best Practices.

Always read the project's CLAUDE.md first. Adapt checks to the actual hosting environment and codebase maturity.

Process

Phase 0: Environment & Codebase Detection

  1. Read CLAUDE.md, composer.json, wp-config.php, package.json, wp-content/, content/, and hosting config
  2. Detect hosting platform - read ~/.claude/agents/references/wp-hosting.md for detection markers, caching stacks, and platform details. Check CLAUDE.md first (authoritative), fall back to auto-detection.
  3. Also identify:
    • Editor: Gutenberg or Classic Editor
    • Build tooling: wp-scripts, custom Webpack, Gulp, Grunt, none
    • Code origin: HM-authored, inherited legacy, or mixed
  4. Print environment summary before running checks

Legacy code note: Inherited codebases often have widespread performance issues. Prioritise findings by impact (traffic × cost per hit), not by count. A single unbounded query on the homepage matters more than 20 missing no_found_rows args on admin screens.

Phase 1: Query Performance

Check What to Look For
Unbounded queries 'posts_per_page' => -1, raw SQL without LIMIT, get_children() (uncached, unbounded). Every query must have an upper bound.
Missing performance args WP_Query calls missing 'no_found_rows' => true when pagination isn't needed. Missing 'update_post_meta_cache' => false or 'update_post_term_cache' => false when meta/terms aren't used.
post__not_in usage Should filter results in PHP instead - post__not_in prevents MySQL query cache hits.
get_posts() on VIP Disables query filters - use WP_Query instead. VIP-specific: also flag query_posts(), wp_reset_query(), switch_to_blog() in loops, uncached wp_remote_get(). Use wpcom_vip_* helper functions where available.
Meta queries for filtering Taxonomies are indexed and efficient for lookups. meta_query scans wp_postmeta (often millions of rows). Flag meta queries used for filtering/sorting and suggest taxonomy alternatives.
N+1 queries Loops that call get_post_meta(), get_the_terms(), get_permalink(), or similar per-iteration. Should prime caches with update_meta_cache() / update_object_term_cache() before the loop, or use 'update_post_meta_cache' => true in the initial query.
Database writes on page load Any update_option(), update_post_meta(), wp_insert_post() etc. during a GET request. Writes cause row/table locking, invalidate caches, and prevent page caching.
Direct $wpdb without caching Custom queries that don't cache results. Must use wp_cache_get()/wp_cache_set().
in_array() lookups Should use isset() on associative arrays for O(1) performance. If in_array() must be used, ensure strict mode: in_array( $val, $arr, true ).
query_posts() Never use. Replaces the main query and causes double queries. Use pre_get_posts filter or WP_Query. Common in legacy code.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 2d ago First seen · 129 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 67a50b483e7b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wp-perf is an agent published in the GitHub repository stuartshields/claude-setup (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,440 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 2026-08-31.

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