performance-optimization
An agent skill by addyosmani, from addyosmani/agent-skills. Tags: api, debugging, developer-tools, web.
What it does
Optimizes application performance across frontend, backend, queries, and databases. Use when performance requirements exist, when you suspect performance regressions, when Core Web Vitals or load times need improvement, when N+1 query patterns need fixing, or when profiling reveals bottlenecks.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skills --skill performance-optimization
Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills
cp -r agent-skills/skills/performance-optimization ~/.claude/skills/performance-optimization
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Source
- Repository
- addyosmani/agent-skills (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- skills/performance-optimization/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
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- systematic-debugging — Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes
- browser-testing-with-devtools — Tests in real browsers via Chrome DevTools MCP. Use when building or debugging anything that runs in a browser.
- deprecation-and-migration — Manages deprecation and migration. Use when removing old systems, APIs, or features. Use when migrating users from one implementation to another.