swe:performance-hunt

swe:performance-hunt is a skill for Claude Code from ckorhonen/swe-skills. It costs 115 tokens per session (1,435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An evidence-based search for performance bottlenecks in a scoped codebase, service, job, page, query path, or other system area.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate slow behavior, review performance regressions, rank hot paths, and choose the smallest useful experiment or fix.
Why use it?
It distinguishes measured slow points from guesses that do not yet justify optimization work.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the swe-skills plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate slow behavior, review performance regressions, rank hot paths, and choose the smallest useful experiment or fix.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ckorhonen/swe-skills/performance-hunt
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 ckorhonen/swe-skills --skill performance-hunt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ckorhonen/swe-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install swe-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,435 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.
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 $0.00115 $0.01435
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00718
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00144

Measured 9d ago against content hash dc6c8dba2884, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swe:performance-hunt 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.

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-hunt/SKILL.md · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SWE Performance Hunt

What This Skill Does

Use this skill to identify performance bottlenecks conservatively and turn them into a small, reviewable backlog.

The goal is to separate:

  • measured bottlenecks
  • high-confidence hotspots supported by repo evidence
  • weak suspicions that do not yet justify optimization work

The output should be a ranked set of bottlenecks plus the smallest next experiment or fix for each item that clears the evidence bar.

When To Use

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • find performance bottlenecks in a service, job, page, query path, or repo
  • understand why a specific flow is slow
  • audit recent performance regressions with concrete evidence
  • rank hot paths before starting optimization work
  • run a recurring performance review over time

Do Not Use

Do not use this skill for:

  • live incident response or active outage triage
  • generic observability coverage audits
  • broad cleanup or refactor planning with no performance target
  • speculative micro-optimization with no measured user or system impact
  • architecture rewrites that are not justified by bottleneck evidence

Inputs To Confirm

Confirm or infer:

  • repository, service, or package scope
  • target flow, workload, or endpoint
  • primary metric of interest, such as latency, throughput, memory, startup, or bundle size
  • available evidence sources such as profiles, traces, benchmarks, or query plans
  • whether the user wants a report-only pass or a small optimization backlog
  • any guardrails around risky changes or expensive tests

If the request is too broad, narrow it to one flow and one metric before doing deep analysis.

Evidence Sources

Strong evidence includes:

  • profiler output or flamegraphs
  • targeted benchmarks
  • load-test results
  • query plans or database timing data
  • frontend bundle analysis or render timing output
  • traces or metrics tied to the scoped flow
  • recent regression data from CI or performance tests

Useful repo evidence includes:

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 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 · 232 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A dc6c8dba2884

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swe:performance-hunt is a skill published in the GitHub repository ckorhonen/swe-skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 1,435 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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