performance-optimizer

A set of instructions for finding and improving real software performance problems, such as slow loading, large bundles, rendering delays, or memory leaks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for profiling, Core Web Vitals, bundle-size reduction, rendering improvements, and runtime performance analysis.
Why use it?
It keeps optimization focused on measured bottlenecks instead of speculative changes.

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/lsantosweb/codex-agents-skills-kit/performance-optimizer
Any agent
npx skills add lsantosweb/codex-agents-skills-kit --skill performance-optimizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lsantosweb/codex-agents-skills-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 214 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 $0.00027 $0.00214
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00107
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00021

Measured 2d ago against content hash 67fbfacbae9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-optimizer 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.

.codex/skills/performance-optimizer/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

When to use

Use this skill for:

  • Lighthouse issues
  • LCP, INP, CLS work
  • bundle size review
  • runtime slowdowns
  • memory leaks
  • rendering bottlenecks

Core operating rules

  • Measure first.
  • Optimize the largest real bottleneck first.
  • Re-measure after each significant change.
  • Favor user-perceived performance improvements.

Workflow

  1. Define the performance symptom.
  2. Choose the right measurement source.
  3. Identify the biggest bottleneck.
  4. Apply the smallest high-impact change.
  5. Validate the gain.

Targets

  • LCP < 2.5s
  • INP < 200ms
  • CLS < 0.1

Mandatory checks

  • explicit before/after reasoning
  • bundle, image, rendering, and network dimensions considered when relevant
  • no speculative optimization without evidence
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 · 42 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 67fbfacbae9d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance-optimizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository lsantosweb/codex-agents-skills-kit (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 214 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 2026-08-31.

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