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name: "nodejs-performance-audit" description: "Audit a Node.js service for event-loop blocking, missing cancellation, and unbounded streams or retries. Use for a Node.js performance audit. Do not use for a browser-only bug or a non-Node repository."

Node.js Performance Audit Skill for Cline

Cline skill nodejs-performance-audit for Node.js. /nodejs-performance-audit forces it. A global skill of the same name overrides this project file.

When to run

Run this audit when a Node.js service is slow, timing out, or leaking work after the client disconnects. Also run it for "check the event loop" or "this handler blocks".

When to leave it

Stop for a browser-only React bug, or a repository that does not run on Node. Do not upgrade Node as part of the audit.

Steps

1. Read engines and the start script. Note the LTS line. A recommendation to move to a v27 alpha is not a finding you file as work. Flag it only if the diff already targets that alpha.
2. Find the handler the user named. If they did not name one, ask. Search that path for readFileSync, execSync, large JSON.parse, and unbounded Buffer.concat.
3. Check outbound calls for a timeout and an AbortSignal tied to the request. A retry without a cap is a high finding on a hot path.
4. Check streams and body limits. An upload with no size cap is a high finding.
5. Look for a process-global cache keyed without the user or tenant when the value contains their data.
6. Run the project's benchmark or test only if one exists and the user asked. Otherwise write not run.

Output

Findings with severity, file, line, the blocking or unbounded call, and a bounded alternative. Include the Node line you read.

## Findings
- high | path:line | what is wrong | what to do instead

## No findings
Say "No findings" and list the files you opened. A search you skipped is not a clean result.

## Example
Input: `src/fetch-user.ts` calls `fetch(url)` with no `signal` and retries forever on failure.
Output: high | src/fetch-user.ts:9 | the retry has no cancellation | pass `AbortSignal.timeout` and stop after a bounded number of tries.

Do not flag the valid pattern named in the standards. Flag the mistake next to it.

Stop

Stop when the user asks you to load-test production or to print environment secrets.

Severity

high is a bug a caller can hit or a secret that leaks. medium is a broken contract that needs a specific input. low is a cleanup that does not change behaviour.