unity-performance

A review guide for spotting likely performance problems in Unity projects. It focuses on issues that can cause slow frames, stuttering, or unnecessary memory use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing update loops, repeated lookups, frequent object creation and destruction, per-frame allocations, runtime reflection, physics, animation, and UI timing, or planning object pooling.
Why use it?
It helps identify common sources of frame drops and allocations before spending time on speculative small optimizations.

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/besty0728/unity-skills/performance
Any agent
npx skills add Besty0728/Unity-Skills --skill performance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Besty0728/Unity-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 963 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 $0.00010 $0.00963
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00481
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00096

Measured 2d ago against content hash 305286cc9c44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unity-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.

SkillsForUnity/unity-skills~/skills/performance/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Before calling any skill in this module: if you are about to call a skill with parameters guessed from its name or description, STOP — read this file (or fetch its schema via GET /skills/recommend?includeSchema=true) first. If you already have the parameter definitions from recommend/schema, you may proceed straight to dryRun.

Triggers

  • Reviewing performance
  • Diagnosing frame drops
  • Reducing allocations
  • Planning pooling/optimization
  • 做性能审查、诊断掉帧或卡顿、减少内存分配、规划对象池/优化

Unity Performance Red Flags

Use this skill for a high-signal review of likely Unity performance issues. Focus on red flags, not speculative micro-optimizations.

Check For

  • Too many unrelated Update / LateUpdate / FixedUpdate loops
  • Repeated Find, GetComponent, Camera.main, or tag lookups in hot paths
  • Frequent Instantiate / Destroy suitable for pooling
  • Avoidable per-frame allocations:
    • LINQ
    • string formatting
    • closures
    • boxing
  • Reflection in runtime hot paths
  • Expensive editor-only helpers leaking into runtime code
  • Physics, animation, or UI updates happening at the wrong cadence

Hidden Costs: Possibility ≠ Actuality

Three counter-intuitive traps where what seems "free" is actually expensive. Each cost is paid for possibility of work, not for work actually performed — which is why profilers rarely catch them directly.

Write permission costs, even without writing

A component whose Update can mutate transform.position pays the cost whether the branch runs or not: dirty-flag and serialization systems treat write permission as a reason to poll every frame. Similarly, a [SerializeField] field that is never modified at runtime still sits on the serialization path. The fix is to remove the permission, not tighten the branch — split the rarely-needed writer into its own component and AddComponent only when needed. Source: NetcodeSamples/HelloNetcode/2_Intermediate/07_Optimization/Optimization.md — "a system with the possibility of writing to a component, regardless of whether it writes to it or not, will always have to be serialized".

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 2d ago First seen · 77 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 305286cc9c44

Subscribe to this mod's changes

unity-performance is a skill published in the GitHub repository Besty0728/Unity-Skills (1,695 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 963 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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