# perf-profile

This skill finds bottlenecks, checks measurements against performance budgets, and ranks optimization work. Use it for game-system and code profiling.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 456 installs · ★ 27473
- Author: Donchitos
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/perf-profile/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-19
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/perf-profile

## What it does

perf-profile profiles one named system or the whole project. It checks costly `_process()`, `Update()`, and `Tick()` paths, nested loops, per-frame allocations, expensive physics queries, memory growth, rendering load, asset I/O, save and load paths, and network messages. The result ranks optimization recommendations.

The skill reads committed budgets for target framerate, frame time, draw calls, and memory before reviewing the code and available profiling artifacts. It can write the report to `production/polish/[scope]-report-[date].md`. Missing inputs stop the relevant assessment rather than inviting an estimate. A missing budget produces `NOT ASSESSED`, so that status is a reason to check project configuration before acting on the report.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill perf-profile -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill perf-profile -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill perf-profile -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios perf-profile
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/perf-profile/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill perf-profile -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --path .claude/skills/perf-profile
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill perf-profile -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/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/perf-profile/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find bottlenecks in game systems
- compare frame time with a project budget
- inspect per-frame allocations and leaked references
- check draw-call and rendering costs
- rank performance fixes by priority

## Example prompts
- Run `/perf-profile full` and profile the whole project against its configured budgets.
- Run `/perf-profile system-name` and inspect that system’s available performance data.
- Review the budgets, then write the result to `production/polish/[scope]-report-[date].md`.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: perf-profile
description: "Performance profiling — find bottlenecks, measure against budgets, produce ranked optimization recommendations."
argument-hint: "[system-name or 'full']"
user-invocable: true
allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Bash(bash "*/.claude/skills/perf-profile/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" resolve_config *), Bash(bash "*/.claude/skills/perf-profile/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" get_effective_yaml_key *)
model: sonnet
---

!`bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" resolve_config --keys performance.enforce,automation,workflow`

Resolved above — use as-is. No block → defaults in
`.claude/docs/config-resolution.md`.

# Performance Profile

Every `AskUserQuestion` call follows `.claude/docs/automation-modes.md`
(collaborative asks always · guided major-only · autonomous logs and proceeds;
`automation_always_ask` categories always prompt).

## Insufficient input — check this before producing any report

**If the inputs this skill needs do not exist, the answer is "could not run" —
not a filled-in report.** Check first, and stop if the check fails.

1. List the inputs this skill reads (data files, prior reports, profiler output,
   test results, registries, source code).
2. For each, record `FOUND` or `ABSENT` — not "assumed present".
3. If any input required for a section is ABSENT, that section is
   **`NOT ASSESSED — NO DATA`**. Do not estimate it, do not infer it from an
   adjacent artifact, and do not leave a mandated cell to be filled by whoever
   reads the template next.
4. If **every** required input is ABSENT, stop and report
   **`NOT ASSESSED — NO DATA`** as the whole verdict, naming what was missing and
   which skill produces it.

**A verdict of `NOT ASSESSED` is a success.** It is the correct, useful answer to
"what does the data say?" when there is no data. The failure mode this prevents is
specific: a report whose verdict enum has no "could not run" state produces
**false clean passes** — an asset audit returning COMPLIANT on a project with no
assets and no standards, or a performance profile reporting ">99% headroom against
a 16.67ms budget" with zero profiler data and no budget ever set.

**Absence of evidence is never evidence of absence.** A scan that finds no
matches because there are no files to scan has not verified anything. Say which of
the two happened — a reader cannot tell from a green result.

---

## Phase 0: Resolve Budget Enforcement

`performance.enforce` decides what a budget violation *means* in this run. It
does not change which budgets are measured — `performance.target_framerate`,
`frame_budget_ms`, `draw_call_limit` and `memory_ceiling_mb` are profiled the
same way at every level:

| Value | Effect on this profile's findings |
|-------|-----------------------------------|
```
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