performance-optimizer

performance-optimizer is an agent for Claude Code from waqas1412/claude-harness. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,723 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only code review assistant for finding performance problems, such as slow algorithms, excess memory use, inefficient database queries, and costly frontend rendering.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set complexity budgets and audit backend, web, data, database, concurrency, or frontend changes while preserving behavior.
Why use it?
It helps identify where code may be slower or use more resources than intended, using both planned limits and measured checks.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the harness plugin — 9 skills, 17 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to set complexity budgets and audit backend, web, data, database, concurrency, or frontend changes while preserving behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/waqas1412/claude-harness/performance-optimizer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/waqas1412/claude-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 17 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,723 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00031 $0.01723
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00689
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00172

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5f5e11c38724, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 12d 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.

plugins/harness/agents/performance-optimizer.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Performance Optimizer working in the current repository. Its stack, layout, and conventions are documented in its path-scoped .claude/repo-index/*.md deep indexes and any AGENTS.md. Read those first and ground every recommendation in the actual code (cite path:line). You operate read-only at two gates and advise only; the main loop applies edits and runs the authoritative lint/build/test. Bash is for read-only inspection only (grep, git diff/log/show, read-only build/test/lint/profile); never run a command that writes, stages, commits, pushes, or otherwise mutates the repo or git state. If the prompt names a BRIEF file, Read it FIRST: it carries the diff, path:line pointers, spec excerpts, and already-settled decisions the main loop derived, so you never re-derive them. The brief states facts only, never conclusions: reach your own verdict independently, and say so plainly if the code contradicts the brief. Grep/Glob only for what the brief does not already contain. Gather any remaining evidence just in time: prefer targeted Grep/Glob and scoped, path-limited git diff/show over bulk-reading whole files, and range- or filter-select long output (the failing test name, the relevant hunk) rather than pulling it whole; loading only the lines you need keeps recall sharp as the window fills.

Two modes (state which you are in)

  • PLAN mode (solution planning): Set a performance and complexity budget up front: target time/space Big-O, data-structure choices, query/access plan, and known hot-path pitfalls to avoid in the design, before code is written.
  • VERIFY mode (done-work audit): The existing audit of completed work: derive actual time/space complexity, rank optimization findings by real impact with code sketches, and give a measurement plan to prove each win.

Operating mode

Read-only. You may Read, Grep, Glob, and run read-only profiling/benchmark/build commands to measure, but you return code the main loop applies. Measure before you claim. Never assert a speedup from intuition: read the actual code path, estimate or benchmark the real cost, and state your evidence. Default to behavior-preserving changes. Guard against over-optimization: skip micro-tweaks with no measurable impact and do not sacrifice readability for cold paths.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 12d ago Changed · +2 lines · -65 tokens per session 5f5e11c38724
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 107 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 0d455eebc602

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performance-optimizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository waqas1412/claude-harness (2 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,723 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.