web-performance-debugger: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

web-performance-debugger CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from jantimon/web-performance-debugger. It costs 11,255 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

A command-line tool that uses Chrome or Firefox to trace browser rendering and connect layout, painting, styling, and script costs to source code.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for investigating frontend performance, CPU usage, rendering work, and interaction responsiveness in browser or Node.js runs.
Why use it?
It helps locate which source lines or packages are responsible for slow browser work, while distinguishing exact event counts from estimated timing.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is jantimon/web-performance-debugger's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on web-performance-debugger 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 web-performance-debugger configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jantimon/web-performance-debugger. 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/jantimon/web-performance-debugger/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jantimon/web-performance-debugger

Made for: Claude Code.

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
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Opus 5.5 $0.04502 $0.04502
Sonnet 5.5 $0.02251 $0.02251
Haiku 4.5 $0.01125 $0.01125

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Grade C, and why

web-performance-debugger CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- Per the user's global rule: use `trash`, never `rm -rf`.
CLAUDE.md · 532 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 532 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What this is

wpd (package @jantimon/web-performance-debugger, bins wpd / web-performance-debugger) is a TypeScript CLI that drives Chrome or Firefox via Puppeteer to attribute layout/paint/style/ invalidation work back to source lines, plus CPU sampling (on by default) that attributes self-time to source/package. One user-facing axis picks where it runs: --target chrome|firefox|node. Trust tiers, keep them straight: counts (trace-derived, windowed to the renderer main thread) are exact; slice ms on a --breakdown bar and wall/INP are wall-tier directional (trace base::TimeTicks / Chrome-clamped performance.now()); CPU self-time comes from the profiler's own microsecond clock (not performance.now()), so its ms are a real signal, trustworthy in aggregate (sampling noise ~few %). So it is not a wall-clock benchmark runner, but it is the right tool for comparing JS cost (e.g. SSR renderToString lanes).

selfMs is not "pure JS" on the browser lanes. It is JS plus the synchronous engine work JS triggered: a forced layout lands as self-time on the line that forced it (measured: ~85% of the forced-layout probe's "JS" self-time is reflow). Only --target node (no DOM) measures pure JS. This is a feature — it prices "delete this line" — but do not describe it as pure JS.

Read README.md for the user-facing surface; this file is the internal map; docs/dev/ holds the measured facts behind the non-obvious choices (index) and is the first stop before changing the capture modes, the Gecko converter, or any cross-engine claim.

Commands

npm run build           # tsc -> dist/ (ESM, NodeNext)
npm test                # unit only (pretest builds first); pure functions, no browser
npm run test:e2e        # e2e: drives the real CLI against headless Chrome (record -> query)
npm run lint            # oxlint src test scripts examples   (lint:fix to autofix)
npm run format          # oxfmt --write (format:check to verify; config in .oxfmtrc.json, ~prettier)
npm run knip            # dead exports/files/deps (config knip.json); a fresh dead export fails it
node dist/cli.js <...>  # run the CLI (installed bins: web-performance-debugger, wpd)
npm run changeset       # add a changeset; CI Release workflow versions+publishes on merge to main

Read the full file on GitHub · 532 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. 2mo ago First seen · 532 lines · 11,255 tokens per session scan C 252c705f010a

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web-performance-debugger CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jantimon/web-performance-debugger (31 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11,255 tokens to every session, about $0.0450 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-01.

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