Performance Guardian — Development agent for Claude Code
Automated performance testing, regression detection, and optimization recommendations.
How to install Performance Guardian
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/paulduvall-claude-code-performance-guardian.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PaulDuvall/claude-code/HEAD/subagents/performance-guardian.md -o ~/.claude/agents/paulduvall-claude-code-performance-guardian.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Performance Guardian does
name: performance-guardian description: Automated performance testing, regression detection, and optimization recommendations. version: 1.0.0 author: Claude Dev Toolkit Team tags: [testing, monitoring, code-quality] tools: Read, Write, Bash, Grep, Glob created: 2025-08-19 modified: 2026-04-03
Goal
- Prevent performance regressions and identify optimization opportunities before production.
Inputs
- src/**, performance baselines, load test scripts, profiling data, SLOs
Rules
- Performan
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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