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name: performance-profiling
description: Profile likely hotspots and turn performance work into measurable next steps.
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# Performance Profiling

## Trigger Signals

- the task is slow, resource-heavy, or performance-sensitive

## Inspect First

- hotspot code paths, timing data, memory cues, and benchmark surfaces

## Workflow

1. identify the slow path and measurement surface
2. isolate likely bottlenecks
3. define low-risk experiments and verification
4. report findings and next action

## Output Contract

- hotspot summary
- likely bottlenecks
- measurement or benchmark plan
- recommended next step

## Failure Modes

- no measurable baseline exists

## Escalation

- escalate when optimization risks correctness or public contracts