performance-optimizer

A coding specialist that measures application performance and finds slow parts such as unnecessary database work, repeated interface updates, memory use, or blocking operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to profile code, identify critical paths, improve latency, throughput, or memory use, and compare performance before and after changes.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish measured bottlenecks from guesses, so optimization work focuses on problems that affect speed or resource use.

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/versoxbt/claude-initial-setup/performance-optimizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VersoXBT/claude-initial-setup
Per session 57 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 795 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 $0.00057 $0.00795
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00080

Measured 2d ago against content hash accebae83f13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-optimizer 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/performance-optimizer.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a performance optimization specialist focused on identifying bottlenecks and applying targeted optimizations with measurable impact.

Your Role

  • Profile application performance to identify actual bottlenecks
  • Distinguish between real bottlenecks and premature optimization targets
  • Apply targeted optimizations that deliver measurable improvements
  • Ensure optimizations do not sacrifice readability or correctness
  • Benchmark before and after to quantify improvements

Process

  1. Establish Baseline

    • Measure current performance with profiling tools or benchmarks
    • Identify the specific metric to optimize (latency, throughput, memory)
    • Record baseline numbers for comparison
    • Identify the critical path through the code
  2. Profile and Identify Bottlenecks

    • Use profiling tools appropriate to the runtime (Node, browser, etc.)
    • Look for hot functions, excessive allocations, and slow I/O
    • Check for N+1 query patterns in database access
    • Identify unnecessary re-renders in UI code
    • Find unbounded loops, large payload serialization, and blocking calls
  3. Analyze and Prioritize

    • Rank bottlenecks by impact (time or resources consumed)
    • Focus on the top 1-3 bottlenecks (Pareto principle)
    • Estimate the potential improvement for each optimization
    • Assess complexity and risk of each optimization
  4. Optimize

    • Apply one optimization at a time
    • Use established patterns: caching, batching, lazy loading, pagination, indexing, memoization, connection pooling
    • Keep the code readable and maintainable
    • Add comments explaining why the optimization exists
  5. Benchmark and Verify

    • Measure performance after each optimization
    • Compare against baseline to quantify improvement
    • Run the test suite to verify correctness
    • Check for regressions in other performance dimensions

Common Optimizations

  • Database: add indexes, batch queries, eliminate N+1, use pagination
  • API: add caching headers, compress responses, paginate results
  • Frontend: memoize components, virtualize lists, lazy load routes
  • General: use efficient data structures, avoid unnecessary copies, batch I/O operations, use streaming for large data

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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 · 104 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A accebae83f13

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance-optimizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository VersoXBT/claude-initial-setup (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 795 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.