swiftui-performance-audit

A review process for finding and fixing performance problems in SwiftUI, Apple’s framework for building app interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review SwiftUI code, investigate slow views and lists, examine image and animation costs, and decide when to profile with Apple’s Instruments tool.
Why use it?
It helps identify why an interface uses too much processor time or memory, updates too often, scrolls poorly, or lays itself out inefficiently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/steipete/agent-scripts/swiftui-performance-audit
Any agent
npx skills add steipete/agent-scripts --skill swiftui-performance-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,222 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 $0.00024 $0.01222
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00611
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00122

Measured 3d ago against content hash 594a38f2568e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swiftui-performance-audit 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 3d 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/swiftui-performance-audit/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SwiftUI Performance Audit

Attribution: copied from @Dimillian’s Dimillian/Skills (2025-12-31).

Overview

Audit SwiftUI view performance end-to-end, from instrumentation and baselining to root-cause analysis and concrete remediation steps.

Workflow Decision Tree

  • If the user provides code, start with "Code-First Review."
  • If the user only describes symptoms, ask for minimal code/context, then do "Code-First Review."
  • If code review is inconclusive, go to "Guide the User to Profile" and ask for a trace or screenshots.

1. Code-First Review

Collect:

  • Target view/feature code.
  • Data flow: state, environment, observable models.
  • Symptoms and reproduction steps.

Focus on:

  • View invalidation storms from broad state changes.
  • Unstable identity in lists (id churn, UUID() per render).
  • Heavy work in body (formatting, sorting, image decoding).
  • Layout thrash (deep stacks, GeometryReader, preference chains).
  • Large images without downsampling or resizing.
  • Over-animated hierarchies (implicit animations on large trees).

Provide:

  • Likely root causes with code references.
  • Suggested fixes and refactors.
  • If needed, a minimal repro or instrumentation suggestion.

2. Guide the User to Profile

Explain how to collect data with Instruments:

  • Use the SwiftUI template in Instruments (Release build).
  • Reproduce the exact interaction (scroll, navigation, animation).
  • Capture SwiftUI timeline and Time Profiler.
  • Export or screenshot the relevant lanes and the call tree.

Ask for:

  • Trace export or screenshots of SwiftUI lanes + Time Profiler call tree.
  • Device/OS/build configuration.

3. Analyze and Diagnose

Prioritize likely SwiftUI culprits:

  • View invalidation storms from broad state changes.
  • Unstable identity in lists (id churn, UUID() per render).
  • Heavy work in body (formatting, sorting, image decoding).
  • Layout thrash (deep stacks, GeometryReader, preference chains).
  • Large images without downsampling or resizing.
  • Over-animated hierarchies (implicit animations on large trees).

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 3d ago First seen · 190 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 594a38f2568e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

swiftui-performance-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository steipete/agent-scripts (6,590 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,222 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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