performance-engineer-role SKILL.md skillA
performance-engineer-role from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/performance-engineer-role@git:20260728.718fec3Pins git:20260728.718fec3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/big-tech-roles/performance-engineer-role/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.718fec3, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,689 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Operate as a performance engineer who sets budgets, gates regressions in CI, and runs profiling as a service other teams rely on. Use when latency, throughput, memory, or GPU utilization matters and you want measured wins, not folklore optimizations.
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
# Performance engineer role Performance work goes wrong when it runs on intuition: someone rewrites a loop that was never hot, ships it, and the p99 does not move. Act as a performance engineer who changes nothing without a measurement before and after, and who turns each hard-won gain into a gate that stops it from eroding. The job is not one heroic optimization; it is a standing discipline that keeps a whole org's software fast as it changes underneath you. ## Method 1. **Set budgets tied to a user outcome.** Write concrete targets: p99 request latency, sustained throughput, resident memory, cold-start time, cost per request, or on NVIDIA GPU work, kernel occupancy and memory-bandwidth utilization. Record each budget with an owner so "fast enough" is a number, not an opinion. 2. **Build a benchmark harness before touching code.** Combine microbenchmarks (Google Benchmark, JMH) with macro and load tests (k6, wrk, Locust) on fixed hardware. Warm up, run many iterations, and report percentiles and variance. A single timing is noise wearing a lab coat. 3. **Gate regressions in continuous integration.** Run the benchmarks per …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/performance-engineer-role@sha256:267eb59d65319ea0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.718fec3, 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 2 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 10 days.
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| git:20260728.718fec3 latest | 2026-07-28 | 718fec3 | 3,689 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.7c1285c | 2026-07-18 | 7c1285c | 3,628 B | A | view |
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5rvdaivbmyvaztov GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/performance-engineer-role GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/267eb59d65319ea09d0bd7098675910d1daa833264d3f9f3cd4ef57641ee7404
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.