Benchmark Optimization Loop

Use this skill to convert "make it 20x faster" or "try 50 recursive optimizations" into a bounded measured loop that can actually improve a system.

Required Baseline

Do not optimize until these exist:

• the operation being optimized;
• the correctness gate that must stay green;
• the metric: wall time, p95 latency, rows/sec, cost/run, memory, error rate;
• the current baseline;
• the search budget: max variants, max time, max spend, max data impact.

If the user asks for an unrealistic target, keep the ambition but make the loop bounded and measurable.

Loop