performance-optimization-rules

Rules for making Chrome extensions use fewer resources and remain responsive. They cover background scripts, deferred loading, and code that runs inside web pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when optimizing background work, loading non-critical features later, and keeping content scripts small and efficient.
Why use it?
They help limit battery, memory, and processing use while reducing the extension's effect on page performance.

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/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules/performance-optimization-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 75 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 $0.00000 $0.00075
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00037
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00007

Measured 2d ago against content hash e9b582174c52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-optimization-rules 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

1/framework_rules/rules/chrome-extension-dev-js-typescript-cursorrules-pro/performance-optimization-rules.mdc · 8 lines

What it actually says

  • Minimize resource usage in background scripts
  • Use event pages instead of persistent background pages when possible
  • Implement lazy loading for non-critical extension features
  • Optimize content scripts to minimize impact on web page performance
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 · 8 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A e9b582174c52

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance-optimization-rules is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules (27 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 75 tokens. 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.