performance-testing

performance-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,539 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to testing how a system behaves under different amounts of traffic. It covers realistic workloads, gradual and sudden traffic increases, and finding where the system stops coping.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan load, stress, spike, smoke, or soak tests before a launch, migration, or expected traffic surge. It helps measure latency, errors, saturation, breaking points, and future capacity.
Why use it?
It prevents misleading capacity claims based only on request counts. It helps separate a real system bottleneck from a test that was configured incorrectly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan load, stress, spike, smoke, or soak tests before a launch, migration, or expected traffic surge. It helps measure latency, errors, saturation, breaking points, and future capacity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nimadorostkar/claude-skills-collection/performance-testing
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 nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection --skill performance-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,539 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00038 $0.01539
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00770
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00154

Measured 9d ago against content hash d09606364f7d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performance-testing 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 9d 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/testing/performance-testing/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Performance Testing

Purpose

Find out where a system breaks, and why, before production finds out for you. A load test that reports "we handled 1,000 requests per second" without stating the latency, the error rate, and where the bottleneck was tells you nothing useful.

When to Use

  • Before a known traffic event: a launch, a campaign, a migration.
  • Establishing a capacity baseline.
  • Verifying that a performance fix worked.
  • Finding the breaking point of a new service.

Capabilities

  • Workload modeling from real traffic patterns.
  • Load profiles: smoke, load, stress, spike, soak.
  • Measuring the right things: latency percentiles, error rate, saturation.
  • Bottleneck identification across the stack.
  • Result interpretation and capacity projection.

Inputs

  • Real traffic patterns: the mix of endpoints, the shape of the day, the payload sizes.
  • The target: expected load, and the load you must survive.
  • A production-like environment. A test against a laptop measures the laptop.

Outputs

  • The breaking point, and the component that broke.
  • Latency percentiles at each load level, not an average.
  • A capacity conclusion: what this system can serve, and where it needs work.

Workflow

  1. Model the workload from reality — Take the endpoint mix from production access logs. A test that hammers one endpoint measures that endpoint, not your system.
  2. Ramp, do not slam — Start below expected load and increase gradually. The point at which latency starts climbing is more informative than the point at which it falls over.
  3. Measure percentiles, never averages — An average latency of 200ms is consistent with half the users waiting 400ms. Report p50, p95, p99, and the maximum.
  4. Watch the system, not just the client — CPU, memory, connection pools, database locks, queue depth. The load generator tells you what happened; the system tells you why.
  5. Find the first bottleneck, fix it, repeat — There is always another one behind it. Performance testing is iterative.
  6. Soak test separately — Run at moderate load for hours. Memory leaks, connection leaks, and disk-filling logs only appear over time.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 9d ago First seen · 131 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A d09606364f7d

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performance-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection (26 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,539 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 2026-09-03.

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