system-tuning
Installation
SKILL.md
System Tuning Skill
Quick Ref: Triage a sluggish dev box without nuking work in flight. Order: diagnose → cleanup zombies and exited sessions → kill stuck children → fix confused parents → renice survivors → verify.
YOU MUST EXECUTE THIS WORKFLOW. Do not just describe it.
When the box feels slow — high load, swap thrash, agent sprawl, or compile storms — work the kill hierarchy from the safest move outward and treat parent agents as the real cleanup target, not their children.
When To Use
| Symptom | Use This Skill |
|---|---|
| Load average drifts above core count and stays there | yes |
Multiple agents respawn the same cargo / cc1plus after kills |
yes — see whack-a-mole-anti-pattern.md |
| Tmux / zellij session list grew past sanity | yes — see agent-swarm-cleanup.md |
| One process is genuinely the hot path | use /perf first; come back if cleanup is still needed |
| Production incident on a server you do not own | escalate; do not run kills blind |