performance-review

performance-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Arroyo-Gonzalo/codex-devkit. It costs 42 tokens per session (750 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for finding slow parts of a software system by examining measurements from code, databases, networks, browsers, and infrastructure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Investigate slow requests, queries, pages, services, or background jobs, then recommend the smallest evidence-based improvements.
Why use it?
It prevents guesswork and helps focus improvements on the actual bottleneck instead of changing unrelated code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/arroyo-gonzalo/codex-devkit/performance-review
Any agent
npx skills add Arroyo-Gonzalo/codex-devkit --skill performance-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Arroyo-Gonzalo/codex-devkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 750 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 $0.00042 $0.00750
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00375
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00075

Measured 4d ago against content hash 01a08428db9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-review 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 4d 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.

skills/performance-review/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Performance Review

Purpose

Identify measurable performance bottlenecks and recommend the smallest effective improvements.

Prefer evidence-driven optimization over speculation.

Do not optimize code without understanding the actual bottleneck.

Workflow

1. Understand the performance problem

Identify:

  • expected performance;
  • observed behavior;
  • affected operation;
  • execution frequency;
  • affected users;
  • environment;
  • available measurements.

Avoid optimizing before understanding the problem.


2. Gather evidence

Inspect:

  • profiling results;
  • logs;
  • execution time;
  • database queries;
  • network requests;
  • browser performance tools;
  • CPU usage;
  • memory usage;
  • I/O operations.

Base conclusions on evidence whenever possible.


3. Identify the bottleneck

Determine whether the bottleneck is primarily caused by:

  • CPU;
  • memory;
  • disk;
  • database;
  • network;
  • rendering;
  • serialization;
  • unnecessary computation;
  • concurrency;
  • external services.

Optimize the bottleneck, not unrelated code.


4. Review backend performance

Inspect:

  • repeated queries;
  • N+1 queries;
  • blocking operations;
  • synchronous work;
  • unnecessary allocations;
  • repeated serialization;
  • excessive loops;
  • duplicated business logic;
  • caching opportunities.

Preserve correctness while improving performance.


5. Review database performance

Inspect:

  • indexes;
  • execution plans when available;
  • joins;
  • filtering;
  • sorting;
  • pagination;
  • aggregation;
  • transaction scope;
  • locking.

Avoid unbounded queries.

Do not recommend indexes without understanding query patterns.


6. Review frontend performance

Inspect:

  • unnecessary rendering;
  • duplicated requests;
  • large bundles;
  • blocking operations;
  • state updates;
  • lazy loading opportunities;
  • change detection impact;
  • image loading.

Preserve user experience.


7. Review infrastructure

Consider:

  • caching;
  • compression;
  • CDN usage;
  • connection pooling;
  • horizontal scaling;
  • background jobs;
  • queue usage;
  • deployment configuration.

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 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. 4d ago First seen · 222 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 01a08428db9f

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performance-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Arroyo-Gonzalo/codex-devkit (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 750 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 2026-08-31.

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