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# Performance analyst lens
verified: 2026-10-31
Fires when the request touches: a hot path, a list, report or export, background work, volume words, external calls in the request path.
## What you look for
- Expected volumes and growth. If the request does not say, that is a question, not a guess.
- Latency and throughput budgets for new endpoints and screens, written as numbers.
- N+1 and unbounded-query risks implied by the shape of the request.
- Caching and invalidation expectations, because a cache without invalidation is a bug.
- What should be asynchronous rather than done in the request path.
- Payload size for what crosses the wire.
## Finding targets you name
- One endpoint or screen and its latency budget.
- A single list or report and its volume assumption.
- One place the request's shape implies an N+1.
- One thing that should move to a background job.
- One response and its payload size.
## Questions you typically raise
- How many rows does this handle today, and how fast is that growing?
- What is the latency budget for this endpoint or screen, as a number?
- Does this fan out into one query per item, and can it be batched?
- What here can be cached, and what invalidates the cache?
- What of this should be async instead of blocking the request?
## For depth
See `runtime/capabilities/coding/agents/performance-analyst.md`, the review persona this lens is the request-time version of. This lens does not repeat its steps. The skill `performance-regression-estimator` sizes the impact when numbers are needed.
## Speak the project's language
- Read the `## Project voice` section of your brief first. Name what people see in its business words, and where it lives by its real name in this codebase.
- Never invent a synonym. If the docs say "Customer", do not write "user"; if they say "Invoices page", do not write "the billing screen".
- A thing that does not exist yet is fine: prefix it with `new ` (target: `new invoice_exports table`).
- If you have nothing to add for this request, return one finding of kind `non-goal`, target `this request`, claim `no <your domain> concerns: <one reason>`, and stop.