performance

performance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MadAppGang/magus. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,000 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for finding and fixing performance problems in Bun and TypeScript programs. It focuses on measuring real behavior, handling blocked event loops, streaming data, caching, workers, and memory use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate slow file operations or JavaScript execution, design honest benchmarks, improve data processing, and reduce event-loop blocking or excessive memory use.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish actual slow paths from common assumptions, so changes are based on measurements rather than guesses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the bunjs plugin — 9 skills, 9 commands 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/madappgang/magus/performance
Any agent
npx skills add MadAppGang/magus --skill performance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadAppGang/magus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install bunjs, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 9 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for performance

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/madappgang/magus/performance.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/madappgang/magus/performance)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/madappgang/magus/performance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/madappgang/magus/performance.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,000 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 $0.00041 $0.02000
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01000
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00200

Measured 5d ago against content hash e3dddb0287b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (assets/perf/bench.test.ts, assets/perf/bench.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/bunjs/skills/performance/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Performance

The first rule is unglamorous and skipping it is why most optimisation work is wasted: measure before you change anything. Intuition about JavaScript performance is unreliable, and this skill opens with a measurement that proves it.

The folklore this skill disproves

"Always use Bun.file(), it's faster than node:fs." MEASURED on Bun 1.3.10, 1 MiB whole-file read, 50 iterations, two independent runs (ms/op):

Operation run A run B
Bun.file(p).text() 0.124 0.133
node:fs/promises readFile(p,"utf8") 0.112 0.097
Bun.file(p).bytes() 0.084 0.093

1 MiB write: Bun.write 0.188 / 0.244 vs node:fs writeFile 0.151 / 0.132.

Bun.file() was not faster for whole-file reads or writes, in either run. The ordering was stable across runs, so this is not noise. The repeatable win is smaller and more specific: .bytes() beat .text() both times, because it skips UTF-8 decoding.

The lesson is not "use node:fs". It is that a plausible, widely-repeated claim did not survive contact with a stopwatch — on this machine, at this size. Measure yours.

Where Bun's natives genuinely win, measured here: Bun.hash (wyhash) is ~10x faster than Bun.CryptoHasher("sha256") (0.033 vs 0.376 ms/MiB). Use it for cache keys and change detection — never for anything security-bearing.

Copy the harness in

18 tests ship with this code and pass (bun test, tsc --noEmit clean, Bun 1.3.10).

SKILL="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:+$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/skills/performance}"; SKILL="${SKILL:-PASTE_THE_DIR_THIS_SKILL_MD_WAS_READ_FROM}"  # that var is UNSET in a Bash tool (MEASURED) — so paste it. `:?` would ABORT the block and copy nothing
mkdir -p bench; if [ -d "$SKILL/assets" ]; then cp -r "$SKILL/assets/perf" bench/support   # bench harness + tests
else echo "SKILL is still the placeholder — paste the real dir above and re-run"; fi

It corrects the three ways hand-rolled benchmarks lie:

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 5d ago First seen · 147 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A e3dddb0287b3

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performance is a skill published in the GitHub repository MadAppGang/magus (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,000 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 2026-08-31.

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