profile

A command for measuring and improving Java application performance. Profiling means collecting evidence about where a program spends time or resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record a workload, find Java hotspots, rank suspected problems, coordinate an approved code change, and compare the result with the baseline.
Why use it?
It gives performance changes a reproducible baseline and checks whether an optimization actually improved the result.

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/profile
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 411 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 $0.00411
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00205
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00041

Measured yesterday against content hash 00ce8c3a4329, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

profile 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.

.cursor/commands/profile.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

profile

Coordinate a Java profiling lifecycle from reproducible baseline through evidence-backed optimization verification.

Usage

/profile <application-or-module> [issue|plan|openspec-change|suspected-problem] [runtime-command] [workload]

Accepted inputs

  • Application, module, or repository path
  • Optional issue, implementation plan, OpenSpec change, or suspected performance problem
  • Runtime command and representative workload
  • Optional existing baseline or profiling artifacts

Owner and skills

  • Owner: @plinth-java-performance
  • Associated skills: @161-java-profiling-detect, @162-java-profiling-analyze, @163-java-profiling-refactor, and @164-java-profiling-verify

Workflow

  1. Record runtime, environment, workload, and baseline metadata.
  2. Use profiling detection to collect reproducible evidence.
  3. Analyze hotspots and rank findings by impact, confidence, and risk.
  4. Ask for user approval before selecting an optimization target.
  5. Delegate application-code changes to the appropriate Java/framework coder agent.
  6. Repeat an equivalent measurement and compare against the baseline.
  7. Report the outcome as verified, inconclusive, or regressed with evidence.

Output

  • Baseline metadata
  • Profiling artifacts and findings
  • Prioritized optimization recommendation
  • Delegation record
  • Before/after comparison
  • Verified, inconclusive, or regressed outcome

Safeguards

  • Do not optimize without user approval.
  • Do not claim improvement from non-equivalent measurements.
  • Do not let @plinth-java-performance implement application-code changes directly.
  • Keep baseline, evidence, delegation, and verification artifacts traceable.
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 · 60 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 00ce8c3a4329

Subscribe to this mod's changes

profile is a command published in the GitHub repository jabrena/plinth (435 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 411 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.