benchmark-checklist SKILL.md skillA

benchmark-checklist from michael-denyer/pstack-claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add michael-denyer/pstack-claude/benchmark-checklist@git:20261013.058a348

Pins git:20261013.058a348 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
michael-denyer/pstack-claude
Path
plugins/pstack/skills/benchmark-checklist/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261013.058a348, committed Oct 13, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 3, 2026
Size
4,971 bytes
Repository stars
3,263
License
MIT

Vet a perf measurement (limiter, tuning, limits, errors, repeatability, relevance, and whether the work happened) before you report or act on it. Use when you run a benchmark or report a speedup or regression you measured.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Benchmark checklist

Use this when you produce a performance number: a PR's before and after, a regression claim, a hillclimb harness, or a library or config choice. Answer each question with evidence from a run, not a guess about the code.

For a quick ballpark the user asked for, one run is enough. Still check questions 4 and 7, and say that it is one run. Skip the rest unless that run looks wrong. A choice between options is never a ballpark.

## Before you run anything

- Write down the claim you expect to make, in the words you would ship ("export is 30% faster at p50 on the 60k-row dataset"). The questions test that sentence.
- Read the measurement script. Note what it times, counts, and ignores.
- Check the load average with `uptime` and the core count with `nproc`. If the machine is busy, find out what is running. If you cannot stop it, interleave the sides so both see the same noise, and say so in the report.

## The questions
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add michael-denyer/pstack-claude/benchmark-checklist@sha256:abc1e34f3e05dc79

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.058a348, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Oct 3, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every 5 days.

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git:20261013.058a348 latest2026-10-13 058a348 4,971 BA view · diff
git:20261004.146fdd92026-10-04 146fdd9 5,378 BA view · diff
git:20261003.55430ba2026-10-03 55430ba 5,362 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4971 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

michael-denyer/pstack-claude · 3,263 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2fghrhjpxzms24ux
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=michael-denyer/pstack-claude/benchmark-checklist
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/abc1e34f3e05dc7972ab73da76cae5685e1e2e8782c9cf1b630dc9c2a0ad7342

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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