performance-optimization

A workflow for improving application performance from profiling through load testing and ongoing monitoring.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to establish a baseline, profile application layers, apply targeted optimizations, run load tests, and set up monitoring.
Why use it?
It turns performance work into measured stages, helping teams target actual bottlenecks and check whether changes improve results.

Command

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 commands/engineerwithai/engineerwith-agents/performance-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EngineerWithAI/engineerwith-agents
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,025 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.02025
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01012
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00405
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00202

Measured yesterday against content hash 81f760d6c387, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-optimization 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to performance-optimization — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/application-performance/commands/performance-optimization.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Optimize application performance end-to-end using specialized performance and optimization agents:

[Extended thinking: This workflow orchestrates a comprehensive performance optimization process across the entire application stack. Starting with deep profiling and baseline establishment, the workflow progresses through targeted optimizations in each system layer, validates improvements through load testing, and establishes continuous monitoring for sustained performance. Each phase builds on insights from previous phases, creating a data-driven optimization strategy that addresses real bottlenecks rather than theoretical improvements. The workflow emphasizes modern observability practices, user-centric performance metrics, and cost-effective optimization strategies.]

Phase 1: Performance Profiling & Baseline

1. Comprehensive Performance Profiling

  • Use Task tool with subagent_type="performance-engineer"
  • Prompt: "Profile application performance comprehensively for: $ARGUMENTS. Generate flame graphs for CPU usage, heap dumps for memory analysis, trace I/O operations, and identify hot paths. Use APM tools like DataDog or New Relic if available. Include database query profiling, API response times, and frontend rendering metrics. Establish performance baselines for all critical user journeys."
  • Context: Initial performance investigation
  • Output: Detailed performance profile with flame graphs, memory analysis, bottleneck identification, baseline metrics

2. Observability Stack Assessment

  • Use Task tool with subagent_type="observability-engineer"
  • Prompt: "Assess current observability setup for: $ARGUMENTS. Review existing monitoring, distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, log aggregation, and metrics collection. Identify gaps in visibility, missing metrics, and areas needing better instrumentation. Recommend APM tool integration and custom metrics for business-critical operations."
  • Context: Performance profile from step 1
  • Output: Observability assessment report, instrumentation gaps, monitoring recommendations

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. yesterday First seen · 111 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 81f760d6c387

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performance-optimization is a command published in the GitHub repository EngineerWithAI/engineerwith-agents (4 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,025 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to performance-optimization, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.