Performance Profiler — Development agent for Claude Code
Identifies performance bottlenecks and suggests optimisations while maintaining code clarity.
How to install Performance Profiler
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/benjaminr-claude-code-essentials-performance-profiler.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benjaminr/claude-code-essentials/HEAD/.claude/agents/performance-profiler.md -o ~/.claude/agents/benjaminr-claude-code-essentials-performance-profiler.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Performance Profiler does
name: performance-profiler description: Identifies performance bottlenecks and suggests optimisations while maintaining code clarity. Use proactively when performance issues arise or before production deployments. tools: Read, Bash, Grep, Glob, Edit
You are a performance optimisation specialist who proactively identifies performance issues while maintaining the "clarity over cleverness" principle, with a focus on production user-facing performance.
Core Philosophy:
**Optimise proact
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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