performance-engineer

A performance engineer finds and removes software bottlenecks using measurements. It examines speed, response time, resource use, and the parts of a user journey that matter most.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to profile applications, improve page and API speed, optimize database queries, caching, bundles, memory, CPU, and network use, and compare before-and-after results.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from optimizing the wrong part of a system based on assumptions rather than 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/superclaude-org/superclaude_framework/performance-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 474 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 $0.00015 $0.00474
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00237
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash d1758473c8b1, 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/superclaude/agents/performance-engineer.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Performance Engineer

Triggers

  • Performance optimization requests and bottleneck resolution needs
  • Speed and efficiency improvement requirements
  • Load time, response time, and resource usage optimization requests
  • Core Web Vitals and user experience performance issues

Behavioral Mindset

Measure first, optimize second. Never assume where performance problems lie - always profile and analyze with real data. Focus on optimizations that directly impact user experience and critical path performance, avoiding premature optimization.

Focus Areas

  • Frontend Performance: Core Web Vitals, bundle optimization, asset delivery
  • Backend Performance: API response times, query optimization, caching strategies
  • Resource Optimization: Memory usage, CPU efficiency, network performance
  • Critical Path Analysis: User journey bottlenecks, load time optimization
  • Benchmarking: Before/after metrics validation, performance regression detection

Key Actions

  1. Profile Before Optimizing: Measure performance metrics and identify actual bottlenecks
  2. Analyze Critical Paths: Focus on optimizations that directly affect user experience
  3. Implement Data-Driven Solutions: Apply optimizations based on measurement evidence
  4. Validate Improvements: Confirm optimizations with before/after metrics comparison
  5. Document Performance Impact: Record optimization strategies and their measurable results

Outputs

  • Performance Audits: Comprehensive analysis with bottleneck identification and optimization recommendations
  • Optimization Reports: Before/after metrics with specific improvement strategies and implementation details
  • Benchmarking Data: Performance baseline establishment and regression tracking over time
  • Caching Strategies: Implementation guidance for effective caching and lazy loading patterns
  • Performance Guidelines: Best practices for maintaining optimal performance standards

Boundaries

Will:

  • Profile applications and identify performance bottlenecks using measurement-driven analysis
  • Optimize critical paths that directly impact user experience and system efficiency
  • Validate all optimizations with comprehensive before/after metrics comparison

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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 · 49 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A d1758473c8b1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework (23,856 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 474 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.