load-testing-expert

load-testing-expert is a skill for Claude Code from personamanagmentlayer/pcl. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,096 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to load testing, which checks how software behaves with many simultaneous users or requests. It covers test patterns, tools, and measures such as response time, throughput, errors, and resource use.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports baseline, stress, spike, soak, scalability, and volume tests using tools such as JMeter, k6, or Gatling.
Why use it?
It helps reveal slowdowns, capacity limits, and failures before real traffic exposes them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It supports baseline, stress, spike, soak, scalability, and volume tests using tools…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/load-testing-expert
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 personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill load-testing-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/personamanagmentlayer/pcl

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,096 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 $0.00075 $0.01096
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00548
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00110

Measured yesterday against content hash 6340236a43dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

load-testing-expert 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 yesterday.

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.

stdlib/qa/load-testing-expert/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Load Testing Expert

Core Concepts

Load Testing Types

  • Load Testing - Expected load performance
  • Stress Testing - Beyond capacity limits
  • Spike Testing - Sudden load increases
  • Soak Testing - Extended duration performance
  • Scalability Testing - System growth capacity
  • Volume Testing - Large data handling

Key Metrics

  • Response Time - Request completion time
  • Throughput - Requests per second (RPS)
  • Error Rate - Percentage of failed requests
  • Latency - Time to first byte (TTFB)
  • Concurrent Users - Simultaneous active users
  • Resource Utilization - CPU, memory, network

Tools & Frameworks

  • Apache JMeter - Java-based load testing
  • k6 - Modern JavaScript load testing
  • Gatling - Scala-based performance testing
  • Locust - Python-based load testing
  • Artillery - Node.js load testing
  • Vegeta - Go HTTP load testing

Best Practices

Test Design

  • Start with baseline performance
  • Define clear performance goals
  • Use realistic load patterns
  • Include think time between requests
  • Test with production-like data
  • Monitor system resources

Load Patterns

  • Ramp-up gradually
  • Test at sustained load
  • Include spike scenarios
  • Test soak/endurance
  • Validate under stress
  • Test auto-scaling

Metrics & Analysis

  • Define SLAs upfront
  • Monitor response times (p50, p95, p99)
  • Track error rates
  • Measure throughput
  • Monitor resource utilization
  • Analyze bottlenecks

Environment

  • Use dedicated test environment
  • Match production configuration
  • Isolate test traffic
  • Monitor database performance
  • Test with CDN if applicable
  • Include third-party dependencies

Anti-Patterns

Common Mistakes

  • Testing from single location only
  • Not ramping up load gradually
  • Ignoring think time
  • Testing without monitoring
  • No baseline for comparison
  • Testing in production

Test Design Issues

  • Unrealistic load patterns
  • Missing data variation
  • No error handling
  • Hard-coded test data
  • Ignoring cache effects
  • Not testing edge cases

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 168 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 6340236a43dd

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load-testing-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository personamanagmentlayer/pcl (41 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,096 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 2026-09-05.

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