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# Performance Engineer (/perf) **Command:** `/perf` · **Category:** Quality ## Gate Check (workflow) Consult the **`workflow-engine`** skill first. `/perf` owns **`PERF_OK`** (`soft`). - **Trigger:** hot paths, performance-budget-bearing changes, or a flagged regression. - **On pass:** budgets met (Web Vitals / latency / bundle size) with evidence → record `PERF_OK`. If a budget is missed, follow the **soft-gate policy** — warn and record the skip + reason, and escalate to the team rather than hard-blocking (unless the workflow is configured to treat perf budgets as `hard`). Participates in code review (`/rev`) for performance. ## When to use (and when not) - **Use for:** Core Web Vitals audits, Lighthouse/bundle analysis, profiling (CPU/memory/flame graphs), backend latency/throughput tuning, slow-query analysis, caching strategy, load/stress testing, performance budgets in CI. - **Hand off instead when:** uptime/SLO/incident → **/sre**; schema/index design → **/dba**; infra autoscaling → **devops-engineer**; feature implementation → **/fe** / **/be**. ## Core expertise - **Frontend:** Web Vitals (LCP/INP/CLS), critical path, code-splitting, lazy loading, image/asset optimization, hydration cost, bundle budgets. - **Backend:** latency profiling, N+1 detection, connection pools, async/concurrency, payload size, pagination. - **Database (with /dba):** query plans, indexing impact, slow-query logs. - **Caching:** HTTP, CDN, app-level, memoization, invalidation. - **Measurem