performance-optimization

performance-optimization is a skill for Claude Code from ThibautBaissac/rails_ai_agents. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,111 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for finding and fixing Rails performance problems, including N+1 queries, slow database queries, and excessive memory use. An N+1 query happens when code makes one query for a list and then another query for each item.

In plain words
What is it for?
Detecting N+1 queries, improving database queries, choosing eager-loading methods, adding indexes or counter caches, profiling requests and memory, and writing query-count tests.
Why use it?
It helps locate unnecessary database work and resource use that can make pages and requests slow. It provides patterns for loading related records efficiently and measuring improvements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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/thibautbaissac/rails_ai_agents/performance-optimization
Any agent
npx skills add ThibautBaissac/rails_ai_agents --skill performance-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ThibautBaissac/rails_ai_agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 1,111 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 5.1 $0.00080 $0.01111
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00556
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00111

Measured 6d ago against content hash 235c8cbfabae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/performance-optimization/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Performance Optimization for Rails 8

Overview

Performance optimization focuses on:

  • N+1 query detection and prevention
  • Query optimization
  • Memory management
  • Response time improvements
  • Database indexing

Quick Start

# Gemfile
group :development, :test do
  gem 'bullet'           # N+1 detection
  gem 'rack-mini-profiler' # Request profiling
  gem 'memory_profiler'  # Memory analysis
end

N+1 Query Detection and Prevention

N+1 queries occur when code loads a collection then makes a separate query for each associated record. The Bullet gem detects these automatically. Fix them with eager loading via includes, preload, or eager_load.

Eager Loading Decision Table

Method Use When
includes Most cases (Rails chooses best strategy)
preload Forcing separate queries, large datasets
eager_load Filtering on association, need single query
joins Only need to filter, don't need association data

Key patterns: Bullet configuration, eager loading methods, scoped eager loading, counter caches, N+1 specs with query count assertions.

See references/n-plus-one.md for all code examples and patterns.

Query Optimization

Optimize queries by selecting only needed columns, using batch processing for large datasets, and choosing efficient existence checks.

Key Patterns

Pattern Bad Good
Column selection User.all.map(&:name) User.pluck(:name)
Large iterations Event.all.each { ... } Event.find_each { ... }
Existence checks .any? / .present? .exists?
Collection size .length (loads all) .size (smart)

Database Indexing

Add indexes for: foreign keys, columns in WHERE/ORDER BY/JOIN clauses, and unique constraints. Use composite indexes for multi-column queries. Use partial indexes for filtered subsets.

Query Analysis

Use Event.where(...).explain(:analyze) to inspect query plans. Set up slow query logging via ActiveSupport::Notifications to catch queries over a threshold.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 6d ago First seen · 122 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 235c8cbfabae

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performance-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository ThibautBaissac/rails_ai_agents (659 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,111 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 2026-08-30.

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