optimize-performance

optimize-performance is a skill for Claude Code, Cursor from emaraschio/cursor-commands. It costs 11 tokens per session (379 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for finding and improving slow parts of an application, such as inefficient algorithms, database queries, API calls, memory use, or repeated computation. It also considers techniques such as caching, pagination, and lazy loading.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect application performance, identify bottlenecks and memory problems, improve database queries, and suggest ways to measure the effect of changes.
Why use it?
It helps locate the actual causes of slow behavior instead of relying on guesses. It keeps code readability and maintenance costs in view while proposing improvements.

Skill for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to inspect application performance, identify bottlenecks and memory problems, improve database queries, and suggest ways to measure the effect of changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emaraschio/cursor-commands/optimize-performance
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 emaraschio/cursor-commands --skill optimize-performance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emaraschio/cursor-commands

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

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README.md
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Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 379 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 $0.00011 $0.00379
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00189
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00038

Measured 4d ago against content hash 710b420af636, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

optimize-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 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.

.cursor/skill-contracts/optimize-performance/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Overview

Analyze the current code for performance bottlenecks and provide optimization recommendations, focusing on measurable improvements while maintaining code quality and readability.

Steps

  1. Performance Analysis
    • Identify slow algorithms and inefficient data structures
    • Find memory leaks and excessive allocations
    • Identify slow queries and improve them specifically for Solid Queue and n+1 queries
    • Detect unnecessary computations and redundant operations
    • Analyze database queries and API calls
  2. Optimization Strategies
    • Suggest algorithm improvements and better data structures
    • Recommend caching strategies where appropriate
    • Propose lazy loading and pagination solutions
    • Identify opportunities for parallel processing
  3. Implementation
    • Provide optimized code with explanations
    • Include performance impact estimates
    • Suggest profiling and monitoring approaches
    • Consider trade-offs between performance and maintainability

Optimize Performance Checklist

  • Identified slow algorithms and inefficient data structures
  • Found memory leaks and excessive allocations
  • Detected unnecessary computations and redundant operations
  • Analyzed database queries and API calls
  • Suggested algorithm improvements and better data structures
  • Recommended caching strategies where appropriate
  • Provided optimized code with explanations
  • Included performance impact estimates
  • Considered trade-offs between performance and maintainability

Guardrails

  • Measure first: profile to find the real bottleneck before changing code.
  • Do not trade readability for unmeasured micro-gains.
  • Do not commit, push, merge, or run production scripts without consent; wait for an explicit request before any destructive git action.
  • Do not print, log, or commit secrets or credentials encountered while profiling or optimizing; flag any exposed secret instead.
Files

What ships with it

3 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. 4d ago First seen · 46 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 710b420af636

Subscribe to this mod's changes

optimize-performance is a skill published in the GitHub repository emaraschio/cursor-commands (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 379 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 2026-09-03.