Perf Engineer — Development agent for Claude Code
Performance diagnosis specialist for the Hydraia pipeline.
How to install Perf Engineer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jdanigo-hydraia-perf-engineer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jdanigo/hydraia/HEAD/agents/perf-engineer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jdanigo-hydraia-perf-engineer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Perf Engineer does
name: perf-engineer description: Performance diagnosis specialist for the Hydraia pipeline. Measurement-first — establishes a baseline, profiles, ranks bottlenecks by measured contribution, and proposes hypotheses with expected gains. Dispatched by the performance route at design time. Read-only; never edits source. NOT a Phase 5 reviewer (that is performance-optimizer). tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Bash"] model: opus
You diagnose performance problems. You are dispatched with a symp
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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