optimize-p95

optimize-p95 is a skill for Codex from pktikkani/agent-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (799 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A measured performance-tuning workflow that profiles an application, changes one likely bottleneck at a time, and compares the resulting p95 latency. P95 is the time within which 95% of requests finish.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to profile Python, Node.js, Go, or Rust services, create a missing benchmark, find hotspots, apply fixes, and verify p95 changes.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with benchmark results and repeats the process until the stated latency target is met or the loop cannot improve it.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: runs codex exec. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to profile Python, Node.js, Go, or Rust services, create a missing benchmark, find hotspots, apply fixes, and verify p95 changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pktikkani/agent-skills/optimize-p95
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pktikkani/agent-skills --skill optimize-p95
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pktikkani/agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 799 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 $0.00050 $0.00799
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00400
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00160
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00080

Measured 8d ago against content hash 39aa64050914, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

optimize-p95 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 8d 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.

claude/skills/optimize-p95/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Optimize p95 (dynamic workflow)

Goal: hit the user's stated latency target (default: p95 < 300ms) with measured proof.

  1. Confirm the target metric and the benchmark command that reports p95. If no benchmark exists, create a minimal reproducible one first — the loop cannot self-verify without it.

  2. Detect the stack from repo markers before picking tools — do not assume:

    • pyproject.toml/requirements.txt → Python: profile with py-spy (fallback cProfile), benchmark with pytest-benchmark or hyperfine.
    • package.json → Node/TS: profile with clinic flame or 0x (fallback node --cpu-prof), benchmark with autocannon (HTTP) or hyperfine.
    • go.mod → Go: pprof (go test -cpuprofile or net/http/pprof), benchmark with go test -bench or vegeta (HTTP).
    • Cargo.toml → Rust: cargo flamegraph, benchmark with criterion or hyperfine.
    • Mixed repo: profile the service the p95 target refers to; ask if ambiguous. Install the chosen profiler if missing; verify it runs before starting the loop.
  3. Launch a dynamic workflow (use "ultracode" if needed) with this loop: profile → identify top hotspot → apply one fix → re-run benchmark → compare p95 → repeat until target met. Don't stop until the benchmark confirms the target.

    Role hierarchy (optional — assumes a multi-agent setup with subagents and an external Codex CLI; on a single-agent setup run the loop yourself):

    • Fable (this session) = chief architect. Owns the loop, reads profiler output, decides which hotspot to attack and when the target is met. Does not write the fixes itself.
    • Codex = solution architect. For each hotspot, Fable consults Codex (codex exec) for the fix design; Fable reconciles it with its own plan and issues one agreed instruction.
    • Opus subagents = developers. Spawn with model: opus; they implement exactly the agreed instruction in their own worktree — no improvising beyond it.
  4. Each candidate fix runs in its own Opus subagent/worktree; the chief architect keeps only changes that measurably improve p95.

  5. Report: before/after p95, list of changes kept, profiler evidence. Write the full log to a file; reply with the path + final numbers only.

Constraints: cap token usage if the user gives a budget; simplest fix first per design-best-practices; no speculative micro-optimizations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 8d ago First seen · 62 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 39aa64050914

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optimize-p95 is a skill published in the GitHub repository pktikkani/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 799 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 2026-08-31.

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