performance-optimization

performance-optimization is a skill for Claude Code from KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,140 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for improving software performance by measuring a baseline, locating the actual bottleneck, making one targeted change, and checking the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for slow features, page loads, API responses, database queries, builds, or memory-heavy operations.
Why use it?
It prevents unmeasured optimizations and checks that faster execution did not break correctness.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Part of the engineering plugin — 22 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for slow features, page loads, API responses, database queries, builds, or memory-heavy operations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/performance-optimization
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 KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude --skill performance-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,140 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 $0.00067 $0.01140
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00456
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00114

Measured 28d ago against content hash b2677188c40a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-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 28d 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.

.claude-plugin/plugins/engineering/skills/performance-optimization/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Profile first. Every performance intuition is wrong until the profiler confirms it. The code that looks slow is rarely the bottleneck; the bottleneck is almost always somewhere the code looks unremarkable. An optimization without a measurement is a guess. A guess that happens to speed things up does not mean you found the right thing.

The one rule

No change before you have a baseline measurement and a profiled bottleneck. If you cannot name the specific file, function, and line where the most time or memory is spent - with numbers - you are still in the investigation phase.

Step 1: Establish the baseline

Define what "slow" means in terms the problem must satisfy:

  • What is the current measured value? (response time, frame rate, memory usage, query duration, build time)
  • What is the target? (a budget from a spec, a regression from a previous version, a user-reported threshold)
  • Can the scenario be reproduced reliably? If not, instrument first and gather data before optimizing.

Run the scenario and record the baseline:

# For Node.js / server-side
node --prof app.js           # then: node --prof-process isolate-*.log
# or: clinic flame -- node app.js

# For queries
EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT ...   # PostgreSQL
# or the equivalent for your database

# For browser / frontend
# Use the browser devtools Performance panel; record the scenario end-to-end
# Look at the flame chart, not just the summary

Save the baseline number. The optimization is only valid if the after-measurement is better than this.

Step 2: Find the bottleneck

Read the profiler output - do not guess from the source. Identify:

  • The hot function: the one frame where the most CPU time is spent (not called the most - spent the most)
  • The call chain: how does execution reach the hot function? What is the logical operation that triggers it?
  • The bottleneck class: is this CPU-bound (computation), memory-bound (allocation/GC pressure), I/O-bound (disk or network latency), lock-bound (contention), or rendering-bound (layout/paint)?

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 28d ago Changed · -21 tokens per session b2677188c40a
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 97 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 9cf985851778

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,140 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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