swe:performance-hunt SKILL.md skillA

swe:performance-hunt from ckorhonen/swe-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ckorhonen/swe-skills/swe:performance-hunt@git:20260404.775ef0a

Pins git:20260404.775ef0a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
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Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ckorhonen/swe-skills
Path
skills/performance-hunt/SKILL.md
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Latest version
git:20260404.775ef0a, committed Apr 4, 2026
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6,934 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Hunts for concrete performance bottlenecks in a scoped repository surface using profiler output, benchmarks, query plans, traces, bundle analysis, or repo evidence, then returns the smallest high-value follow-up experiments or fixes. Use when a user says `find performance bottlenecks`, `why is this slow`, `profile this flow`, `hunt hot paths`, or asks for a recurring performance review. Do NOT use for live incident response, generic observability audits, speculative micro-optimization, or…

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What the file says

# SWE Performance Hunt

## What This Skill Does

Use this skill to identify performance bottlenecks conservatively and turn them
into a small, reviewable backlog.

The goal is to separate:

- measured bottlenecks
- high-confidence hotspots supported by repo evidence
- weak suspicions that do not yet justify optimization work

The output should be a ranked set of bottlenecks plus the smallest next
experiment or fix for each item that clears the evidence bar.

## When To Use

Use this skill when the user wants to:

- find performance bottlenecks in a service, job, page, query path, or repo
- understand why a specific flow is slow
- audit recent performance regressions with concrete evidence
- rank hot paths before starting optimization work
- run a recurring performance review over time

## Do Not Use

Do not use this skill for:

- live incident response or active outage triage
- generic observability coverage audits
- broad cleanup or refactor planning with no performance target
- speculative micro-optimization with no measured user or system impact
- architecture rewrites that are not justified by bottleneck evidence

## Inputs To Confirm

Confirm or infer:
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ckorhonen/swe-skills/swe:performance-hunt@sha256:dc6c8dba28849793

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260404.775ef0a, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 4, 2026.

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6934 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

ckorhonen/swe-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-26 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zx5pkejahiu25n2e
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ckorhonen/swe-skills/swe:performance-hunt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dc6c8dba288497935ee1cea779cc0e659a498a28716aced316af5f36a49998a8

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