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performance-benchmark-specialist — Claude Code skill: shell tool

Sets up benchmarks for shell tools: warmup runs, statistics, and target checks like <100ms and >90% cache hit rate.

Install into Claude Code · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓
npx skills add manutej/luxor-claude-marketplace --skill performance-benchmark-specialist -a claude-code
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What performance-benchmark-specialist does

The skill lays out a benchmark structure for shell scripts: warmup, a batch of runs, min/max/mean/median/stddev, then a baseline-versus-optimized comparison. Results land in CSV, and target values get asserted automatically. Handy when you changed a script and need to know whether it actually got faster.

Inside is a bench-helpers.sh library with millisecond timing, warmup, run and statistics functions, plus a benchmark template. Targets come from the unix-goto project: cached navigation under 100ms, bookmark lookup under 10ms, cache hit rate above 90%, cache build under 5s.

It is not for application profiling, production monitoring or load testing web services — those need their own tools. A one-off measurement is fine with plain time. The source text is cut off, so the full set of library functions cannot be verified from it.

What it helps with

  • measure a shell script before and after optimization
  • compute min, max, mean, median and stddev across runs
  • check whether a command stays under the 100ms target
  • generate a test workspace with folders
  • save benchmark results to CSV and compare against baseline

Example prompts for the agent

  • Write a benchmark for my navigation script: warmup, 10 runs, statistics and a 100ms target check
  • Compare the baseline and optimized versions of my bookmark lookup command and report the speedup
  • Create a medium workspace and benchmark the cache, then save the results to CSV

How to install performance-benchmark-specialist

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add manutej/luxor-claude-marketplace --skill performance-benchmark-specialist -a claude-code

2Manually: put the files in place

~/.claude/skills/performance-benchmark-specialist/SKILL.md

Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/performance-benchmark-specialist/

Step by step, with commands for each platform: How to install skills in Claude Code: five ways

Questions about performance-benchmark-specialist

How do I install performance-benchmark-specialist in Claude?

Run npx skills add manutej/luxor-claude-marketplace --skill performance-benchmark-specialist -a claude-code. The skill lands at ~/.claude/skills/performance-benchmark-specialist/SKILL.md.

What does performance-benchmark-specialist do?

It describes how to build benchmarks for shell tools: warmup, repeated runs, min/max/mean/median/stddev statistics, baseline comparison and automatic target checks.

Which performance targets does it check?

Cached navigation under 100ms, bookmark lookup under 10ms, cache hit rate above 90% and cache build under 5s.

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