memory-leak-detection

memory-leak-detection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 38 tokens per session (635 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to finding memory leaks, where a program keeps data it no longer needs, using heap snapshots and memory profiling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture heap snapshots, measure memory usage, locate retained objects, and fix leaks.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose growing memory use, out-of-memory crashes, slowdowns, and repeated container restarts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to capture heap snapshots, measure memory usage, locate retained objects, and fix leaks.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/memory-leak-detection
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 aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill memory-leak-detection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 memory-leak-detection

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/memory-leak-detection/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/memory-leak-detection)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/memory-leak-detection"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/memory-leak-detection/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for memory-leak-detection

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/memory-leak-detection"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/memory-leak-detection.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 635 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 5 Mar 2026
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 $0.00038 $0.00635
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00318
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00064

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6f665df6f85b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-leak-detection 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-config.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/memory-leak-detection/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory Leak Detection

Table of Contents

Overview

Identify and fix memory leaks to prevent out-of-memory crashes and optimize application performance.

When to Use

  • Memory usage growing over time
  • Out of memory (OOM) errors
  • Performance degradation
  • Container restarts
  • High memory consumption

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

import v8 from "v8";
import fs from "fs";

class MemoryProfiler {
  takeSnapshot(filename: string): void {
    const snapshot = v8.writeHeapSnapshot(filename);
    console.log(`Heap snapshot saved to ${snapshot}`);
  }

  getMemoryUsage(): NodeJS.MemoryUsage {
    return process.memoryUsage();
  }

  formatMemory(bytes: number): string {
    return `${(bytes / 1024 / 1024).toFixed(2)} MB`;
  }

  printMemoryUsage(): void {
    const usage = this.getMemoryUsage();

    console.log("Memory Usage:");
    console.log(`  RSS: ${this.formatMemory(usage.rss)}`);
    console.log(`  Heap Total: ${this.formatMemory(usage.heapTotal)}`);
    console.log(`  Heap Used: ${this.formatMemory(usage.heapUsed)}`);
    console.log(`  External: ${this.formatMemory(usage.external)}`);
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
Node.js Heap Snapshots Node.js Heap Snapshots
Memory Leak Detection Middleware Memory Leak Detection Middleware
Common Memory Leak Patterns Common Memory Leak Patterns
Python Memory Profiling Python Memory Profiling
WeakMap/WeakRef for Cache WeakMap/WeakRef for Cache
Memory Monitoring in Production Memory Monitoring in Production

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 9d ago First seen · 96 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 6f665df6f85b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

memory-leak-detection is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (338 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 635 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

debug-optimize-lcp

Guides debugging and optimizing Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) using Chrome DevTools MCP tools. Use this skill whenever the user asks about LCP performance, slow page loads, Core Web Vitals optimization, or wants to understand why their page's main content takes too long to appear. Also use when the user mentions…

ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp · 99 tokens

systematic-debugging

Use when debugging a failing test, build error, or runtime issue that isn't immediately obvious. Guides a 4-phase root cause analysis instead of random fix attempts.

open-metadata/OpenMetadata · 37 tokens

diagnose

Trace from a reproduced symptom to the source code that causes it. Pin the specific file and approximate line, rate confidence in the cause and clarity of the fix independently, and always propose a concrete fix.

emdash-cms/emdash · 43 tokens

repro-admin

Reproduce an EmDash admin UI bug. Attach a container, start the demo dev server, drive the admin with agent-browser using the dev-bypass session, and capture the reproduction as screenshots plus a replayable transcript.

emdash-cms/emdash · 48 tokens

log-error-digest

Analyze log files to troubleshoot errors, identify peak error periods, and produce error clustering, frequency statistics, and time distribution reports. Supports JSON, syslog, and Nginx formats with automatic detection. Use when a user uploads a .log file and asks to analyze errors, find patterns, debug issues, or…

zebbern/claude-code-guide · 71 tokens

byted-util-volcengine-detect-retry

An orchestration workflow for Volcengine Cloud Detect, a service that checks websites or network endpoints from test locations.

bytedance/agentkit-samples · 101 tokens