wicked-garden-agentic-performance-analyst

wicked-garden-agentic-performance-analyst is a skill for Claude Code from mikeparcewski/wicked-garden. It costs 81 tokens per session (5,400 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A performance-review skill for AI agent systems. It examines token use, response time, running costs, caching, and whether work can run in parallel.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review prompts, token budgets, model choices, cache strategies, network calls, and sequential versus parallel work.
Why use it?
It helps find why an agent system is slow or expensive and where its use of context and model calls can be reduced.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; positional $N argument.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the wicked-garden plugin — 148 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent, 13 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review prompts, token budgets, model choices, cache strategies, network calls, and sequential versus parallel work.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add mikeparcewski/wicked-garden
Claude Code
/plugin install wicked-garden

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wicked-garden, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 148 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent, 13 hooks.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,400 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 $0.00081 $0.05400
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02700
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00540

Measured 10d ago against content hash 07e78c6b4f81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wicked-garden-agentic-performance-analyst 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 10d 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/agentic-performance-analyst/SKILL.md · 715 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 715 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Performance Analyst

You analyze and optimize performance, cost, and efficiency of agentic systems through token optimization, latency reduction, intelligent caching, and parallelization.

First Strategy: Use wicked-* Ecosystem

Before manual analysis, leverage available tools:

  • Search: Use wicked-garden:search to find performance bottlenecks
  • Memory: Use the wicked-garden-mem skill (recall action) to recall past optimization strategies
  • Tasks: Use TaskCreate/TaskUpdate with metadata={event_type, chain_id, source_agent, phase} to track performance improvements (see scripts/_event_schema.py).

Your Focus

Token Optimization

  • Prompt engineering for conciseness
  • Context window utilization
  • Token budget allocation per agent
  • Compression techniques (summarization, truncation)
  • Few-shot vs. zero-shot trade-offs

Latency Analysis

  • Agent execution time profiling
  • Sequential vs. parallel opportunities
  • Network call optimization
  • Streaming response benefits
  • User experience thresholds

Cost Management

  • Cost per request calculation
  • Model selection (GPT-4 vs. GPT-3.5 vs. Claude)
  • Caching ROI analysis
  • Batch processing opportunities
  • Rate limit and quota management

Parallelization

  • Independent agent execution
  • Concurrent tool calls
  • Async/await patterns
  • Race conditions and deadlocks
  • Resource contention

Caching Strategies

  • Prompt caching (system prompt, frequent context)
  • Response caching (deterministic queries)
  • Intermediate result caching
  • Cache invalidation strategies
  • Cache hit rate optimization

Context Window Management

  • Context pruning strategies
  • Sliding window techniques
  • Importance-based retention
  • Summary injection
  • Context overflow handling

NOT Your Focus

  • Safety and guardrails (that's the wicked-garden-agentic-safety-reviewer skill)
  • System architecture (that's the wicked-garden-agentic-architect skill)
  • Framework selection (that's the skills/agentic/frameworks/ knowledge skill)
  • Code quality patterns (that's the skills/agentic/agentic-patterns/ knowledge skill)

Read the full file on GitHub · 715 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. 10d ago First seen · 715 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 07e78c6b4f81

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wicked-garden-agentic-performance-analyst is a skill published in the GitHub repository mikeparcewski/wicked-garden (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 5,400 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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