performance-profiling

A measurement-based process for finding and reducing the parts of a program that use too much time or memory. Profiling measures where the program actually spends its resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define targets, measure a repeatable baseline, find bottlenecks, test one improvement at a time, compare results, and add performance checks.
Why use it?
It prevents wasted effort on code that only seems slow and confirms whether a change improves the chosen performance target.

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/new1direction/korgex/performance-profiling
Any agent
npx skills add New1Direction/korgex --skill performance-profiling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/New1Direction/korgex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 314 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 $0.00017 $0.00314
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00157
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5f0d9170d732, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-profiling 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.

src/skills_builtin/performance-profiling/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

The cardinal rule: measure before you optimize, and measure again after. Intuition about what's slow is usually wrong.

  1. Define "fast enough". What's the target (latency, throughput, memory) and on what input? Without a target you can't know when to stop.
  2. Reproduce + measure the baseline. Get a repeatable workload and time it. Record the number — it's what you'll compare against.
  3. Profile to find the real hotspot. Use a profiler / timing instrumentation, not eyeballing. Find where the time/allocations actually go. The bottleneck is often not where you'd guess (it's frequently I/O, N+1 queries, or an accidental O(n²), not "slow code").
  4. Fix the biggest cost first. Often algorithmic (data structure, caching, batching) beats micro-optimization. Change one thing.
  5. Re-measure. Confirm the change actually helped against the baseline. Keep it only if it did; revert if it didn't.
  6. Guard it. For a critical path, add a benchmark/regression check so it can't silently regress later.

Red flags: optimizing without a measurement, micro-tuning a cold path, trading readability for speed that doesn't move the target number.

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 · 28 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 5f0d9170d732

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performance-profiling is a skill published in the GitHub repository New1Direction/korgex (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 314 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.