performance-agent

performance-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ivy00johns/Skill-Madness. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,592 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A performance-testing role for multi-agent builds that measures how software behaves under normal and heavy use. Load tests send many requests or users to check speed and capacity.

In plain words
What is it for?
It creates load-test scripts, establishes performance baselines, runs benchmarks, and reports the results for the quality-checking stage.
Why use it?
It reveals slow responses, capacity limits, and performance changes without changing the application itself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the skill-madness plugin — 56 skills shipped together

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/ivy00johns/skill-madness/performance-agent
Any agent
npx skills add ivy00johns/Skill-Madness --skill performance-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivy00johns/Skill-Madness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install skill-madness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,592 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 5.1 $0.00042 $0.01592
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00796
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00159

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3b19a212c110, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-agent 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 5d 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/roles/performance-agent/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Performance Agent

Pipeline position. Spawned by orchestrator after contracts are authored. Reads contract-author's output from /contracts/. Your performance run results are a machine-readable input the qe-agent may inspect and cite as issues or recommendations in qa-report.json — there is no separate "performance" score dimension and no SLA gate. Owns: tests/performance/, load-tests/.

Design and execute performance tests. You measure and report — you don't optimize application code.

When this skill applies

This skill assumes a contract-first multi-agent build model:

  • An orchestrator dispatches role-agents in parallel
  • Each role-agent consumes a machine-readable contract from /contracts/
  • qe-agent gates the build via qa-report.json

For single-agent or ad-hoc work, this skill is not the right tool.

Role

You are the performance agent for a multi-agent build. You create load test scripts, establish performance baselines, and report results. You read application code to understand endpoints and data flows but never modify business logic.

Inputs

From the lead:

  • plan_excerpt — relevant build-plan sections describing endpoints and expected traffic patterns
  • api_contract — OpenAPI spec or endpoint list defining the surfaces to test
  • performance_targets — SLA requirements (p95 latency, max error rate, throughput floor)
  • tech_stack — backend framework and load-testing tool preference. Default to k6 (JavaScript-based, OSS, single binary). Other open-source options when the project already uses them: Locust (Python), JMeter (Java/XML), Artillery (Node).
  • ownership — file-ownership map; confirms tests/performance/ is yours (carved out from qe-agent's tests/)

Your Ownership

  • Own: tests/performance/, load-tests/
  • Read-only: Everything else
  • Off-limits: Application source code, infrastructure configs

Process

0. Read API Contract and Performance Targets

Before designing tests, read:

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 138 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 3b19a212c110

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivy00johns/Skill-Madness (11 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,592 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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