EGC: Instructions file for Kiro

.kiro/steering/performance.md

EGC performance.md is an instructions file for Kiro from Fmarzochi/EGC. It costs 303 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for choosing a coding model, managing the amount of project context it receives, and troubleshooting builds. It also describes when to use deeper reasoning or separate helper agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Plan model use, manage context during refactors and debugging, organize complex work, and investigate build problems.
Why use it?
It helps avoid overloading the model with context during large changes and gives guidance for matching task complexity to available reasoning depth.

Instructions file for Kiro

Written for Kiro: installed under .kiro/. Also seen: mentions subagents.

This is Fmarzochi/EGC's own configuration. It tells Kiro how to work on EGC itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything EGC configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Fmarzochi/EGC. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Fmarzochi/EGC/main/.kiro/steering/performance.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Fmarzochi/EGC

Made for: Kiro.

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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 $0.00303 $0.00303
Opus 5 $0.00151 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00061 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00030

Measured today against content hash 84cbc28e24d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

EGC performance.md 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 today.

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.

.kiro/steering/performance.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Performance Optimization

Model Selection Strategy

Gemini Haiku 4.5 (90% of Sonnet capability, 3x cost savings):

  • Lightweight agents with frequent invocation
  • Pair programming and code generation
  • Worker agents in multi-agent systems

Gemini Sonnet 4.5 (Best coding model):

  • Main development work
  • Orchestrating multi-agent workflows
  • Complex coding tasks

Gemini Opus 4.5 (Deepest reasoning):

  • Complex architectural decisions
  • Maximum reasoning requirements
  • Research and analysis tasks

Context Window Management

Avoid last 20% of context window for:

  • Large-scale refactoring
  • Feature implementation spanning multiple files
  • Debugging complex interactions

Lower context sensitivity tasks:

  • Single-file edits
  • Independent utility creation
  • Documentation updates
  • Simple bug fixes

Extended Thinking

Extended thinking is enabled by default in Kiro, reserving tokens for internal reasoning.

For complex tasks requiring deep reasoning:

  1. Ensure extended thinking is enabled
  2. Use structured approach for planning
  3. Use multiple critique rounds for thorough analysis
  4. Use sub-agents for diverse perspectives

Build Troubleshooting

If build fails:

  1. Use build-error-resolver agent
  2. Analyze error messages
  3. Fix incrementally
  4. Verify after each fix
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. today First seen · 55 lines · 303 tokens per session scan A 84cbc28e24d3

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EGC performance.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Fmarzochi/EGC (48 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 303 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 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 2026-09-06.

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