bottleneck-patterns

A troubleshooting guide for finding common causes of slow or resource-heavy software. It covers web apps, backend services, databases, memory, processors, networks, and mobile apps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate performance problems such as API delays, database bottlenecks, memory leaks, CPU work, mobile interface stutter, and network inefficiency.
Why use it?
It helps connect a symptom—such as slow queries, high memory use, or dropped frames—to likely causes worth checking.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the perfmind plugin — 4 skills, 2 agents shipped together

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/sembraniteam/claude-plugins/bottleneck-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add sembraniteam/claude-plugins --skill bottleneck-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sembraniteam/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install perfmind, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 2 agents.

Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 786 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 $0.00122 $0.00786
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.00393
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00079

Measured 2d ago against content hash 251f45aa7219, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bottleneck-patterns 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.

perfmind/skills/bottleneck-patterns/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bottleneck Patterns

Performance Bottleneck Patterns

Identify which domain matches the symptom, then apply the corresponding pattern. For the full symptom → pattern → fix lookup tables, see references/bottleneck-lookup.md.

Domain Quick Reference

Response Time: Tail latency (p99 >> p50), throughput ceiling, cold-path slowness, periodic spikes

Web: Render-blocking resources, large JS bundles, layout thrashing, missing CDN, high INP

API/Backend: N+1 queries, missing indexes, connection pool exhaustion, synchronous I/O, over-fetching

Memory: Monotonic heap growth (leak), burst allocation GC churn, premature promotion, unbounded cache

CPU: Busy-wait loops, hot codec (serialization), uncached regex, lock contention

Mobile (Android): ANR on main thread, UI jank, overdraw, WakeLock abuse, battery drain from background work

Mobile (iOS): Main thread I/O, deep autolayout graph, retain cycles, Core Data on main thread

Mobile (Flutter): Expensive build() methods, shader compilation jank, large isolate messages, heavy list cells

Networking: Chatty API, missing compression, no connection reuse, oversized images, sequential loading

Database: Missing indexes (EXPLAIN ANALYZE first — parse PostgreSQL JSON output deterministically with the profiler-analysis skill's scripts/parse-profiler.py --format pg-explain), SELECT *, missing composite index, ORM over-fetching

Diagnostic Approach

  1. Match the symptom to a domain from the quick reference above
  2. Look up the specific pattern and fix in references/bottleneck-lookup.md
  3. Confirm with data before implementing: run EXPLAIN ANALYZE, attach a profiler, or measure with a benchmark — for .cpuprofile/pprof -top/EXPLAIN ANALYZE JSON specifically, use profiler-analysis's parser script rather than reading raw output by eye
  4. Apply the impact-matrix skill to prioritize multiple findings

Cross-Domain Signals

Some symptoms span multiple domains — check these cross-cutting patterns first:

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 2d ago First seen · 56 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 251f45aa7219

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bottleneck-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository sembraniteam/claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 786 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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