macos-performance-benchmark
Installation
SKILL.md
macOS Performance Benchmark (Apple Silicon)
A repeatable, threshold-scored performance suite. Runs diagnostics and
benchmarks for CPU/thermals, memory/swap, disk/storage, and startup/background
load, writes a timestamped run under ~/.cache/macos-perf/, and generates a
markdown report with PASS/WARN/FAIL verdicts against tunable baselines.
When to Use This Skill
| Use this skill when... | Use something else when... |
|---|---|
| You want a repeatable baseline — "is this Mac performing to spec?" scored PASS/WARN/FAIL | The Mac is hot/slow right now and you need live attribution — use macos-performance-triage |
| Tracking CPU/memory/disk/thermal health across runs, comparing before/after a change | The machine actually hung or panicked — use macos-incident-postmortem |
| Producing a saved report to keep or share | A security extension (Kandji ESF, XProtect, EDR) is the hot process — use endpoint-security-cpu |
| Benchmarking NVMe/AES/SHA/memory throughput against thresholds | You're reclaiming disk space — use macos-disk-usage |
This skill is the proactive baseline companion to the reactive
macos-performance-triage playbook: run this to know the machine's normal;
run triage when something is wrong now.