optimization-audit SKILL.md skillB
optimization-audit from karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills/optimization-audit@git:20260929.7b74d3aPins git:20260929.7b74d3a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills
- Path
plugins/mad-scientist-skills/skills/optimization-audit/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260929.7b74d3a, committed Sep 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 4, 2026
- Size
- 106,937 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Comprehensive optimization audit with two modes and a single tier. Planning mode designs performance strategy, capacity planning, and scaling architecture. Audit mode scans code and infrastructure for performance anti-patterns, inefficient algorithms, N+1 queries, missing caching, concurrency issues, and resource waste. Single tier — optimization tools are overwhelmingly free/open-source. Use when asked to "optimization audit", "performance review", "find bottlenecks", "optimize this…
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
# Optimization Audit A comprehensive optimization skill with two modes and a single tier: **Modes:** - **Planning** (before code exists) — performance strategy, capacity planning, scaling architecture, data access design - **Audit** (on existing code) — scanning for performance anti-patterns, inefficient algorithms, N+1 queries, missing caching, concurrency issues, and resource waste **Single tier:** Unlike the security and observability audits, optimization tools are overwhelmingly free/open-source (profilers, EXPLAIN, load testers, linters). Enterprise APM platforms are already covered by the observability-audit skill, so a Standard/Enterprise split would duplicate coverage. **Core question:** "Is this system using resources efficiently?" ## When to use this skill - When the user says "optimization audit", "performance review", "find bottlenecks", "optimize this", "check efficiency", or "resource audit" - Before designing a new system (planning mode) — to define performance strategy, capacity planning, and scaling architecture early - On an existing codebase (audit mode) — to find and fix performance anti-patterns and resource waste …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills/optimization-audit@sha256:6ec338699aff1e3cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.7b74d3a, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_x5eiu63q4z5kf3bq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 4, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, about one every 45 days.
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| git:20260929.7b74d3a latest | 2026-09-29 | 7b74d3a | 106,937 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260929.a9ce136 | 2026-09-29 | a9ce136 | 93,776 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260926.35dafdd | 2026-09-26 | 35dafdd | 93,716 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260422.89409d4 | 2026-04-22 | 89409d4 | 93,692 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260404.27ebcb2 | 2026-04-04 | 27ebcb2 | 85,702 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No script tag (matched: <script)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (106937 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_x5eiu63q4z5kf3bq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills/optimization-audit GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6ec338699aff1e3cde38e0deff393c079da0c64c2e629516b8d419fd292eeb27
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