performance

performance is a skill for Claude Code from addyosmani/web-quality-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (3,291 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for improving website speed and responsiveness through measurements from real users and browser performance traces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate slow pages, prioritize Core Web Vitals, inspect browser traces, optimize related code or assets, and report before-and-after results.
Why use it?
It helps identify measured bottlenecks before changing code, then checks whether the changes actually improved loading or interaction speed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the web-quality-skills plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate slow pages, prioritize Core Web Vitals, inspect browser traces, optimize related code or assets, and report before-and-after results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/addyosmani/web-quality-skills/performance
About the project

Web Quality Skills is a collection of agent skills for measuring and improving website performance, accessibility, search optimization, and browser usability. Developers use it with any web framework to run Lighthouse and Chrome DevTools checks, analyze Core Web Vitals and CrUX data, and apply WCAG and SEO guidance. The catalogue entries are the project's own skills, instructions, and plugin for agent-assisted web-quality work.

addyosmani/web-quality-skills · 2,758 stars · on GitHub

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.

Any agent
npx skills add addyosmani/web-quality-skills --skill performance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/addyosmani/web-quality-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install web-quality-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for performance

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/addyosmani/web-quality-skills/performance.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/addyosmani/web-quality-skills/performance)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/addyosmani/web-quality-skills/performance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/addyosmani/web-quality-skills/performance.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,291 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 7 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 7 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 60
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 352
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 355
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00049 $0.03291
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01646
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00658
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00329

Measured 8d ago against content hash b0c220185d88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance scanned grade A 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 8d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

return cached || fetch(event.request).then((response) => {
skills/performance/SKILL.md · 400 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 400 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Performance optimization

Evidence-led performance optimization using real-user signals for prioritization and browser traces for diagnosis. Focuses on loading speed, runtime responsiveness, and resource delivery.

How it works

  1. If a page can run, read the measurement workflow and establish a field-plus-lab baseline before editing.
  2. Prioritize poor real-user Core Web Vitals. Use a DevTools performance trace and its focused insights to find the cause.
  3. Inspect and change only the code or assets connected to measured bottlenecks.
  4. Re-run equivalent lab measurements and report before/after values, conditions, and uncertainty. Field verification remains pending until enough new user data arrives.

When no runnable page exists, perform static inspection but call findings hypotheses, not measured regressions. Include the command or browser workflow that can verify each high-impact hypothesis.

Prefer a browser tool that records a performance trace and exposes focused insights. With Chrome DevTools MCP, use performance_start_trace and performance_analyze_insight; do not route performance through lighthouse_audit, which covers non-performance Lighthouse categories.

Starting performance budget

Budgets must reflect the product's target devices, networks, page types, and user journeys. The values below are initial guardrails for a typical content or commerce page, not universal pass/fail criteria. Preserve an existing project budget when one is already defined.

Resource Budget Rationale
Total page weight < 1.5 MB Bounds transfer time and data cost on constrained target networks; calibrate with representative pages
JavaScript (compressed) < 300 KB Protect parse and execution cost
CSS (compressed) < 100 KB Limit render-blocking work
Images (above-fold) < 500 KB Protect likely LCP resources
Fonts < 100 KB Limit critical font transfer
Third-party < 200 KB Bound code outside product control

Read the full file on GitHub · 400 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 400 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A b0c220185d88

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance is a skill published in the GitHub repository addyosmani/web-quality-skills (2,758 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 3,291 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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