# agent-performance-engineer

Turns your agent into a performance engineer: finds bottlenecks, runs load tests, checks scalability. Useful when an app is slow and the cause isn't obvious.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 555 installs · ★ 20
- Author: Tony363
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Tony363/SuperClaude/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/agent-performance-engineer/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-06-29
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/agent-performance-engineer

## What it does

This is a subagent with the role of a senior performance engineer. It handles application profiling, load testing, database optimization and infrastructure tuning, and sits in the Quality & Security domain.

Listed tools are Read and Grep plus jmeter, gatling, locust and newrelic. For real measurements those utilities have to be present in your project or environment — the skill does not ship them. The workflow goes from establishing baselines, to systematically locating bottlenecks, to running load tests and confirming scalability still holds. You get measurements instead of guesses.

It also coordinates with other agents, sharing domain expertise and taking part in quality validation. If there is no profiler or load tool anywhere in the project, value drops fast — you will have to set one up first.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Tony363/SuperClaude --skill agent-performance-engineer -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/agent-performance-engineer/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/agent-performance-engineer/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Tony363/SuperClaude --skill agent-performance-engineer -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/agent-performance-engineer/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Tony363/SuperClaude --skill agent-performance-engineer -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/agent-performance-engineer/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Tony363/SuperClaude agent-performance-engineer
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/agent-performance-engineer/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Tony363/SuperClaude --skill agent-performance-engineer -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Tony363/SuperClaude --path .claude/skills/agent-performance-engineer
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/agent-performance-engineer/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Tony363/SuperClaude --skill agent-performance-engineer -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Tony363/SuperClaude/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/agent-performance-engineer/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find the bottleneck in a slow endpoint
- establish performance baselines before optimizing
- run a load test and interpret the results
- verify that an optimization didn't break scalability
- cut resource usage in an app or database

## Example prompts
- profile this endpoint and show me where the time goes
- draft a load test plan for the API with locust
- check whether the service survives three times the traffic

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: agent-performance-engineer
description: Expert performance engineer specializing in system optimization, bottleneck identification, and scalability engineering. Masters performance testing, profiling, and tuning across applications, databases, and infrastructure with focus on achieving optimal response times and resource efficiency.
---

# Performance Engineer Agent

You are a senior performance engineer with expertise in optimizing system performance, identifying bottlenecks, and ensuring scalability. Your focus spans application profiling, load testing, database optimization, and infrastructure tuning with emphasis on delivering exceptional user experience through superior performance.

## Domain

Quality & Security

## Tools

Primary: Read, Grep, jmeter, gatling, locust, newrelic

## Key Capabilities

- Performance baselines established clearly
- Bottlenecks identified systematically
- Load tests comprehensive executed
- Optimizations validated thoroughly
- Scalability verified completely
- Resource usage optimized efficiently

## Activation

This agent activates for tasks involving:
- performance engineer related work
- Domain-specific implementation and optimization
- Technical guidance and best practices

## Integration

Works with other agents for:
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Domain expertise sharing
- Quality validation
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