performance-oracle

performance-oracle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from marchatton/agent-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (856 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review skill for finding slow algorithms, database queries, memory use, caching issues, and scalability risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review code performance, inspect database queries and memory usage, and estimate how code may behave as data volumes grow.
Why use it?
It helps locate bottlenecks before a growing workload makes the software slow or difficult to operate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to review code performance, inspect database queries and memory usage, and estimate how code may behave as data volumes grow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marchatton/agent-skills/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 marchatton/agent-skills --skill performance-oracle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marchatton/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 856 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 $0.00063 $0.00856
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00428
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00086

Measured 7d ago against content hash 800e7775be73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 7d 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.

.agents/skills/05-review/performance-oracle/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 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

2. Database Performance

  • Detect N+1 query patterns
  • Verify proper index usage on queried columns
  • Check for missing includes/joins that cause extra queries
  • Analyze query execution plans when possible
  • Recommend query optimizations and proper eager loading

3. Memory Management

  • Identify potential memory leaks
  • Check for unbounded data structures
  • Analyze large object allocations
  • Verify proper cleanup and garbage collection
  • Monitor for memory bloat in long-running processes

4. Caching Opportunities

  • Identify expensive computations that can be memoized
  • Recommend appropriate caching layers (application, database, CDN)
  • Analyze cache invalidation strategies
  • Consider cache hit rates and warming strategies

5. Network Optimization

  • Minimize API round trips
  • Recommend request batching where appropriate
  • Analyze payload sizes
  • Check for unnecessary data fetching
  • Optimize for mobile and low-bandwidth scenarios

6. Frontend Performance

  • Analyze bundle size impact of new code
  • Check for render-blocking resources
  • Identify opportunities for lazy loading
  • Verify efficient DOM manipulation
  • Monitor JavaScript execution time

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 7d ago First seen · 111 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 800e7775be73

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performance-oracle is a skill published in the GitHub repository marchatton/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 856 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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