performance

A set of rules for managing an AI assistant's context, limiting research attempts, and troubleshooting failed builds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning multi-file work, researching information, or fixing a build: inspect the actual error, change one thing at a time, and verify each fix.
Why use it?
It helps prevent rushed large changes, wasted time on unproductive sources, and guesses that hide the real cause of a build error.

Cursor rule

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 rules/mckruz/claude-code-mastery/performance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MCKRUZ/claude-code-mastery
Per session 169 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 169 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00169 $0.00169
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.00084
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00017

Measured 2d ago against content hash fe33ea166599, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance 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-export/project-rules/performance.mdc · 20 lines

What it actually says

Performance

Context Window

  • Avoid last 20% for large refactoring or multi-file features. Single-file edits and docs are fine near the limit.
  • When context is getting long, finish current work cleanly rather than starting new complex tasks.

Research Time Limits

  • If a single site or source takes more than 5 minutes to fetch or return useful results, abandon that source and move on.
  • One or two attempts per source max, then pivot to the next.

Build Troubleshooting

  • Build fails → analyze the actual error message first, don't guess.
  • Fix incrementally — one error at a time, verify between fixes.
  • Don't suppress warnings to make a build pass. Fix the underlying issue.
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 · 20 lines · 169 tokens per session scan A fe33ea166599

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository MCKRUZ/claude-code-mastery (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 169 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 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.