extreme-software-optimization

A method for speeding up software by measuring where it spends time, then changing one part at a time while checking that its results stay the same.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate slow code, bottlenecks, response-time targets, or low-throughput operations, and to compare possible improvements before implementing them.
Why use it?
It prevents guesswork and helps avoid performance changes that accidentally alter behavior.

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/compozy/kb/extreme-software-optimization
Any agent
npx skills add compozy/kb --skill extreme-software-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/compozy/kb

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,217 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00041 $0.01217
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00609
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00122

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1d1844275501, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

extreme-software-optimization 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to extreme-software-optimization — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/extreme-software-optimization/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Extreme Software Optimization

The One Rule: Profile first. Prove behavior unchanged. One change at a time.

The Loop (Mandatory)

1. BASELINE    → hyperfine --warmup 3 --runs 10 'command'
2. PROFILE     → cargo flamegraph / py-spy / clinic flame
3. PROVE       → Golden outputs + isomorphism proof per change
4. IMPLEMENT   → Score ≥ 2.0 only, one lever per commit
5. VERIFY      → sha256sum -c golden_checksums.txt
6. REPEAT      → Re-profile (bottlenecks shift)

Opportunity Matrix

Hotspot Impact (1-5) Confidence (1-5) Effort (1-5) Score
func:line × × ÷ Impact×Conf/Effort

Rule: Only implement Score ≥ 2.0

Isomorphism Proof Template

For EVERY change, document:

## Change: [description]
- Ordering preserved:     [yes/no + why]
- Tie-breaking unchanged: [yes/no + why]
- Floating-point:         [identical/N/A]
- RNG seeds:              [unchanged/N/A]
- Golden outputs:         sha256sum -c golden_checksums.txt ✓

Pattern Tiers (Quick Reference)

Tier 1: Low-Hanging Fruit

Pattern When Isomorphism
N+1 → Batch Sequential fetches Same results, fewer round-trips
Linear → HashMap Keyed lookups O(n)→O(1), order may change
Lazy eval Maybe-unused values Same final values
Memoization Repeated pure calls Cached = recomputed
Buffer reuse Alloc per iteration Zero-copy in loop

Tier 2: Algorithmic

Pattern Change Check
Binary search O(n)→O(log n) Sorted input
Two-pointer O(n²)→O(n) Structured input
Prefix sums O(n)→O(1) query Static data
Priority queue O(n)→O(log n) Top-k/scheduling

Tier 3: Data Structures

Structure Use Case
HashMap Point lookups
BTreeMap Range queries
SmallVec Usually-small collections
Arena Many allocations, bulk free
Bloom filter Membership pre-filter

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago First seen · 151 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 1d1844275501

Subscribe to this mod's changes

extreme-software-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository compozy/kb (101 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,217 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to extreme-software-optimization, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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