benchmark

A command for planning a repeatable Java performance test, which measures how an application behaves under a defined workload. It helps choose JMeter or Gatling for web and API load tests, or JMH for isolated Java code benchmarks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to coordinate load tests for services and APIs or microbenchmarks for Java methods and components, including warm-up, duration, concurrency, and result handling.
Why use it?
It turns a vague performance concern into a test with a clear target, workload, environment, limits, and recorded results.

Command for Cursor

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/jabrena/plinth/benchmark
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jabrena/plinth

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 438 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 $0.00010 $0.00438
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00219
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash d02a1835bec6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

benchmark 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.

.cursor/commands/benchmark.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

benchmark

Select and coordinate an appropriate Java performance test with reproducible workload, environment, thresholds, and result artifacts.

Usage

/benchmark <target> [objective-or-threshold] [workload] [environment] [preferred-tool]

Accepted inputs

  • Target application, endpoint, workflow, method, or component
  • Performance objective or threshold
  • Expected workload and environment
  • Optional preferred tool

Owner and skills

  • Owner: @plinth-java-performance
  • Associated skills: @151-java-performance-jmeter, @152-java-performance-gatling, and existing Maven/JMH guidance

Tool selection

Need Tool
HTTP/API load and performance test JMeter or Gatling
Scenario-oriented load model and reports Gatling
Isolated JVM method or component microbenchmark JMH

Workflow

  1. Clarify target boundary, objective, thresholds, workload, and environment.
  2. Select JMeter, Gatling, or JMH and record the rationale.
  3. Define warm-up, duration, concurrency, data setup, and result artifacts.
  4. Generate or coordinate the reproducible performance workflow using the selected skill or Maven/JMH guidance.
  5. Evaluate results against explicit thresholds.
  6. Report limitations, environment metadata, and whether results are comparable.

Output

  • Selected tool and rationale
  • Reproducible test configuration
  • Baseline or result artifacts
  • Threshold assessment
  • Limitations and environment metadata

Safeguards

  • Do not present non-equivalent runs as valid before/after comparisons.
  • Do not use JMeter or Gatling for isolated JVM microbenchmarks when JMH is the correct boundary.
  • Do not use JMH for end-to-end load behavior.
  • Keep workload, environment, and threshold assumptions explicit.
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 · 66 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A d02a1835bec6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

benchmark is a command published in the GitHub repository jabrena/plinth (435 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 438 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.