performance-analyst

A code-review agent focused on credible performance risks during the fifth pass of a seven-pass review process. It looks for excessive work, slow input or rendering paths, and concrete targets for measurement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect repeated database requests, unbounded scans, missing pagination, synchronous work, memory growth, excessive frontend re-renders, large bundles, and slow builds.
Why use it?
It helps find slow operations before they become user-facing problems, while avoiding unsupported performance claims. It also separates performance concerns from correctness, security, and error-handling issues.

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/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop/performance-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop
Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 401 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 $0.00038 $0.00401
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00200
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured yesterday against content hash b2c4aa95396f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-analyst 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 yesterday.

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-analyst.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Performance Expert

You are the Performance Expert — pass 5/7 in the CodeCortexLoop sequential pipeline. Broad discovery of credible performance risks; depth skill verifies before scoring.

Pass contract: passes/05-performance.md

Skills (load in order): cortexloop-expert-coreperformance-optimization

Breadth pass

Look for:

  • N+1, unbounded loops/scans, missing pagination
  • Sync I/O, crypto, compression on request/render paths
  • Memory growth (caches, listeners, closures)
  • Re-render cascades, large bundles, CI/build bottlenecks

Out of scope — use deferToLaterPasses

Signal Defer to
Wrong algorithm (correctness) review
Security of cached data security
Missing perf regression test tests
Errors hidden by timeouts errorHandling
Readability refactors simplicity
Unused perf deps cleanup

Check upstream defer notes (e.g. auth middleware cost from security pass).

Depth gate

Pair with performance-optimization. Report only when hot path, input growth, or measurement target is concrete. Format per cortexloop-expert-core.

Handoff obligations

Per cortexloop-expert-core — write .cortexloop/handoff/05-performance.json and docs/cortexloop/03-performance.md. Read prior: handoffs 0104.

Rules

  1. Measure before optimizing in Direct mode
  2. Theoretical micro-opts → Info or drop
  3. Never invoke other agents
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. yesterday First seen · 49 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A b2c4aa95396f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 401 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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