audit-performance-efficiency

A code review for performance efficiency, meaning how quickly software responds, how many resources it uses, and how much work it can handle. It checks the code without running it under real traffic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look for repeated database queries, missing indexes, inefficient algorithms, blocking work, unlimited data or caches, and missing limits on incoming work.
Why use it?
It finds code patterns that may become slow, wasteful, or unable to cope with growth before users encounter them in production.

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/tomzx/agents/audit-performance-efficiency
Any agent
npx skills add tomzx/agents --skill audit-performance-efficiency
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,010 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00115 $0.02010
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.01005
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00402
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00201

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8a099b077093, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audit-performance-efficiency scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

rg -n "requests\.(get|post)|urllib\.request|open\(|subprocess\.(run|call|Popen)" -g '*handler*.py' .
skills/audit-performance-efficiency/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TODAY=!date +%Y-%m-%d

Performance Efficiency Audit (ISO/IEC 25010)

Audits the codebase for performance efficiency: response time, resource utilization, and capacity limits. It finds statically detectable performance antipatterns before they show up under load.

This is the Performance efficiency characteristic of the ISO/IEC 25010 quality model. Distinct from observe-production (runtime latency/error measurement), this is static analysis of code that will be slow or wasteful.

Prerequisites

  • Working directory is the root of the repository
  • Read .sdlc/context/architecture.md if present (to identify hot paths and data stores)
  • Language-specific tooling optional (see Useful Commands Reference)

What This Checks

Sub-characteristic What it means Signals scanned
Time behavior response/processing times under load queries in loops (N+1), O(n²) algorithms, blocking I/O in request handlers, time.sleep in hot paths, missing pagination on list endpoints
Resource utilization CPU, memory, file handles, connections unbounded collections/caches, large allocations in loops, unclosed resources, missing connection pooling, full-table loads (SELECT *, .all(), fetchall)
Capacity limits beyond which performance degrades hardcoded single-thread assumptions, missing rate limiting, unbounded queues, no backpressure, missing indexes on queried columns

Steps

1. Identify hot paths and data stores

From architecture.md and route/endpoint discovery, identify request handlers, batch jobs, and data-access layers. These are where performance findings are most severe.

rg -n "@(app|router|api|blueprint)\.(get|post|put|delete|patch|route)" -g '*.py' .
rg -n "(get|post|put|delete|patch|use|all)\(['\"]" -g '*.{ts,js}' .

2. Query and data-access antipatterns (time behavior)

N+1 / queries-in-loops:

rg -n -B3 "for .+ in .+:" -g '*.py' . | rg "\.(get|filter|find|first|all|execute|query|load)\("

Full-table loads without limits:

rg -n "\.all\(\)|\.fetchall\(\)|SELECT \*|objects\.all|\.findAll\(" -g '*.{py,ts,js}' .

Unbatched writes inside loops:

rg -n "(\.save\(|\.insert\(|\.create\(|\.add\(|\.commit\(|db\.)" -g '*.py' .

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 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. 2d ago First seen · 183 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 8a099b077093

Subscribe to this mod's changes

audit-performance-efficiency is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 2,010 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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