AgentDB Performance Optimization

AgentDB Performance Optimization is a skill for Claude Code from ruvnet/RuView. It costs 53 tokens per session (3,268 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to making AgentDB vector searches and storage use fewer resources and run faster. It covers compressed vector data, HNSW indexes, caching, and processing records in batches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to benchmark AgentDB, reduce memory usage, speed up similarity searches, and improve bulk inserts for large vector collections.
Why use it?
It addresses slow searches and high memory use when a vector database grows large. The techniques are intended for applications handling very large numbers of vectors.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to benchmark AgentDB, reduce memory usage, speed up similarity searches, and improve bulk inserts for large vector collections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ruvnet/ruview/agentdb-optimization
About the project

RuView is a WiFi sensing platform that uses disturbances in radio signals, captured by low-cost ESP32 sensors, to detect presence, movement, breathing, and heart rate without cameras or wearables. It is intended for spatial monitoring and smart-home integrations. The catalogue add-ons support workflows for operating and integrating RuView.

ruvnet/RuView · 98,528 stars · on GitHub · cognitum.one

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ruvnet/RuView --skill agentdb-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,268 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

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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 $0.00053 $0.03268
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.01307
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00654
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00327

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0438ee74207a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

AgentDB Performance Optimization 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/agentdb-optimization/SKILL.md · 510 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 510 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AgentDB Performance Optimization

What This Skill Does

Provides comprehensive performance optimization techniques for AgentDB vector databases. Achieve 150x-12,500x performance improvements through quantization, HNSW indexing, caching strategies, and batch operations. Reduce memory usage by 4-32x while maintaining accuracy.

Performance: <100µs vector search, <1ms pattern retrieval, 2ms batch insert for 100 vectors.

Prerequisites

  • Node.js 18+
  • AgentDB v1.0.7+ (via agentic-flow)
  • Existing AgentDB database or application

Quick Start

Run Performance Benchmarks

# Comprehensive performance benchmarking
npx agentdb@latest benchmark

# Results show:
# ✅ Pattern Search: 150x faster (100µs vs 15ms)
# ✅ Batch Insert: 500x faster (2ms vs 1s for 100 vectors)
# ✅ Large-scale Query: 12,500x faster (8ms vs 100s at 1M vectors)
# ✅ Memory Efficiency: 4-32x reduction with quantization

Enable Optimizations

import { createAgentDBAdapter } from 'agentic-flow/reasoningbank';

// Optimized configuration
const adapter = await createAgentDBAdapter({
  dbPath: '.agentdb/optimized.db',
  quantizationType: 'binary',   // 32x memory reduction
  cacheSize: 1000,               // In-memory cache
  enableLearning: true,
  enableReasoning: true,
});

Quantization Strategies

1. Binary Quantization (32x Reduction)

Best For: Large-scale deployments (1M+ vectors), memory-constrained environments Trade-off: ~2-5% accuracy loss, 32x memory reduction, 10x faster

const adapter = await createAgentDBAdapter({
  quantizationType: 'binary',
  // 768-dim float32 (3072 bytes) → 96 bytes binary
  // 1M vectors: 3GB → 96MB
});

Use Cases:

  • Mobile/edge deployment
  • Large-scale vector storage (millions of vectors)
  • Real-time search with memory constraints

Performance:

  • Memory: 32x smaller
  • Search Speed: 10x faster (bit operations)
  • Accuracy: 95-98% of original

2. Scalar Quantization (4x Reduction)

Read the full file on GitHub · 510 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. 1mo ago First seen · 510 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 0438ee74207a

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AgentDB Performance Optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository ruvnet/RuView (98,528 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 3,268 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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