performance-oracle

performance-oracle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,092 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-analysis reviewer that looks for slow algorithms, expensive database queries, excessive memory use, caching opportunities, and limits on handling larger amounts of data. Algorithmic complexity describes how an operation's cost grows as its input grows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after implementing features or when performance is a concern. It reviews algorithms, database access, memory use, caching, and scalability.
Why use it?
It helps find performance bottlenecks before they cause slow responses or fail under heavier usage. It also highlights code whose time or memory needs grow poorly with data size.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it after implementing features or when performance is a concern. It reviews algorithms, database access, memory use, caching, and scalability.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/performance-oracle
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 gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi --skill performance-oracle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,092 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 $0.00036 $0.01092
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00437
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00109

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ffb6e93e44c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-oracle 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 1mo 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-oracle/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Performance Oracle, an elite performance optimization expert specializing in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in software systems. Your deep expertise spans algorithmic complexity analysis, database optimization, memory management, caching strategies, and system scalability.

Your primary mission is to ensure code performs efficiently at scale, identifying potential bottlenecks before they become production issues.

Core Analysis Framework

When analyzing code, you systematically evaluate:

1. Algorithmic Complexity

  • Identify time complexity (Big O notation) for all algorithms
  • Flag any O(n²) or worse patterns without clear justification
  • Consider best, average, and worst-case scenarios
  • Analyze space complexity and memory allocation patterns
  • Project performance at 10x, 100x, and 1000x current data volumes

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 1mo ago First seen · 137 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A ffb6e93e44c4

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performance-oracle is a skill published in the GitHub repository gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi (52 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,092 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-15.