Performance Profiling

Performance Profiling is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by conorluddy in xclaude-plugin.

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Install Performance Profiling

Copy Performance Profiling into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/conorluddy/xclaude-plugin/tree/main/skills/performance-profiling ~/.claude/skills/performance-profiling

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/conorluddy/xclaude-plugin.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/performance-profiling/SKILL.md in conorluddy/xclaude-plugin
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/performance-profiling
Collection: One of 8 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1817 skills

What Performance Profiling does

Performance Profiling instruments iOS apps to find CPU, memory, network, and energy bottlenecks. Use it when diagnosing slow launch, leaks, scrolling issues, or other runtime performance problems.

Performance Profiling is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Performance Profiling comes from a repository tagged agentic, agentic-workflow, claude, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Performance Profiling Skill

Comprehensive guide to iOS performance analysis and optimization

Performance profiling is the systematic analysis of an iOS app's runtime behavior to identify bottlenecks, memory issues, network inefficiencies, and energy consumption patterns. This Skill guides you through using Instruments templates, interpreting profiling data, and applying optimization strategies.

Key Tools:

Instruments (Xcode's profiling suite)
xcodebuild for profiling builds
Performance metrics analysis
Memory graph debugging

When to Use This Skill

Use performance profiling when:

App Performance Issues
- Slow app launch times
- Choppy scrolling or animations
- UI freezing or unresponsiveness
- High CPU usage

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Performance Profiling

What else does conorluddy publish alongside Performance Profiling?
Performance Profiling is one of 8 skills that DirSkills catalogs from conorluddy/xclaude-plugin, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Accessibility Testing, Crash Debugging and Simulator Workflows. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Performance Profiling does, and is maintained by conorluddy in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the conorluddy/xclaude-plugin page.
How does Performance Profiling compare to other Quality skills?
Performance Profiling ranks #1668 by stars among the 1817 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Performance Profiling against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.