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Ops Speedup Agent Skill

Cross-platform, hardware-adaptive system optimizer. Auto-detects macOS / Linux / WSL / Windows (MINGW/Cygwin/MSYS2) and CPU/RAM/disk/GPU profile, then picks the right cleanup strategy. Scans reclaimable disk space, memory pressure, runaway processes, startup bloat, network issues. CleanMyMac built into Claude Code.

3k tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
1
files
instructions only
0
copies elsewhere
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3248
stars on the repo
on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude --skill ops-speedup

The instruction itself

14 sections, as written by the author

Runtime Context

Before scanning, load:

  • Preferences: cat ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/plugins/data/ops-ops-marketplace}/preferences.json — read timezone for timestamps

OPS > SPEEDUP — System Optimizer

Architecture

The bin/ops-speedup binary is the single source of truth for probes AND actions. This skill's job is to:

  • Call the binary with the right flags based on user intent
  • Parse the JSON
  • Present a health score + cleanup report
  • Confirm destructive actions per plugin Rule 5
  • Invoke the binary's clean/deep/aggressive modes to execute

CLI Reference — bin/ops-speedup

| Command | Purpose | Side effects |

|---------|---------|--------------|

| ops-speedup | Visual banner + hardware summary | None |

| ops-speedup --json | Quick JSON diagnostics (disk/mem/net only) | None |

| ops-speedup --scan | Full parallel probe: disk + mem + CPU hogs + power hogs + GPU/ANE + startup | None |

| ops-speedup --clean | Safe cleanup: caches, tmp, logs, demote daemons, DNS flush, kernel tune | Non-destructive |

| ops-speedup --deep | --clean + Trash, DerivedData, simulators, animation cuts, launch-agent kill | Removes files |

| ops-speedup --aggressive | --deep + unload launch agents, docker --volumes, stale node_modules (>14d), TCP BBR | Potentially breaking — confirm first |

All modes:

  • Auto-detect OS (macOS / Linux / WSL / Windows) and dispatch OS-specific ops
  • Idempotent — skip DerivedData/Metro/journal if last run was <1h ago
  • Write telemetry to ~/.ops-speedup/history.jsonl
  • Only raise kernel tuning parameters, never lower
  • Protected processes list blocks killing of shells, IDEs, daemons

OS-specific capabilities

| Capability | macOS | Linux | WSL | Windows |

|------------|-------|-------|-----|---------|

| Disk reclaimable scan | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | limited |

| Memory + swap | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | limited |

| CPU hog kill | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |

| Power/Energy Impact | ✓ (top -stats power) | ✓ (powertop) | — | — |

| GPU/Neural Engine | ✓ (powermetrics) | ✓ (nvidia-smi) | — | — |

| Launch agent offenders | ✓ | — | — | — |

| systemd unit masking | — | ✓ | ✓ | — |

| E-core demotion | ✓ (taskpolicy -b) | ✓ (renice+ionice) | ✓ | — |

| UI animation cuts | ✓ | — | — | — |

| Kernel tune (vnodes/somaxconn) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |

| TCP BBR | — | ✓ (aggressive) | ✓ (aggressive) | — |

| DNS flush | ✓ (dscacheutil) | ✓ (resolved) | ✓ (via Windows) | — |

| Memory purge | ✓ (purge) | ✓ (drop_caches) | ✓ | — |

| Stale build dir prune (>14d) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |

Phase 1 — Visual header

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-speedup 2>/dev/null || echo "SCAN_FAILED"

Phase 2 — Full diagnostic scan (parallel, all probes)

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-speedup --scan 2>/dev/null || echo '{}'

The binary already runs all probes in parallel. Do NOT add additional serial probe calls from this skill — they will duplicate work that's already in the JSON output.

Phase 3 — Health score + cleanup report

Parse the JSON and render:

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 OPS > SYSTEM SPEEDUP — [os] [os_version] [chip]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

 HEALTH SCORE: [0-100] / 100  [████████░░ 80%]

 DISK                                    RECLAIMABLE
 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 brew cache          [N] MB              ✓ safe
 npm cache           [N] MB              ✓ safe
 pnpm cache          [N] MB              ✓ safe
 Xcode DerivedData   [N] MB              ✓ safe
 Xcode DeviceSupport [N] MB              ✓ safe
 Docker reclaimable  [N] MB              ✓ safe
 Metal shader cache  [N] MB              ✓ safe
 Trash               [N] MB              ✓ safe
 Logs                [N] MB              ✓ safe
 Downloads           [N] MB              ⚠ review
 Caches (general)    [N] MB              ⚠ review
 /tmp                [N] MB              ✓ safe
 apt/journal         [N] MB              ✓ safe (linux)
 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 TOTAL RECLAIMABLE:  [N] GB

 MEMORY
 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 Pressure:    [N]% free    Swap: [N] MB    Free: [N] MB

 NETWORK
 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 Interface:   [iface]      DNS: [N]ms

 STARTUP
 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 Login items:   [N]              (macOS)
 Launch agents: [N]              (macOS)
 Failed units:  [N]              (Linux)
 Enabled units: [N]              (Linux)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Health score calculation:

  • Start at 100
  • Disk > 90% used: -20
  • Disk > 80% used: -10
  • RAM pressure < 20% free: -15
  • RAM pressure < 40% free: -5
  • Swap > 1GB: -10
  • DNS > 100ms: -5
  • > 10 launch agents (macOS) or > 3 failed systemd units (Linux): -5
  • > 5GB reclaimable: -10
  • > 10GB reclaimable: -20

Phase 4 — Present cleanup choice (max 4 options per AskUserQuestion)

AskUserQuestion call 1 — Cleanup scope:

  [Quick — caches, tmp, logs, DNS flush (~[N] GB)]
  [Deep — + Trash, DerivedData, simulators, animation cuts (~[N] GB)]
  [Aggressive — + launch-agent unload, stale node_modules, docker volumes (~[N] GB)]
  [More options...]

AskUserQuestion call 2 (only if "More options..."):

  [Custom — pick categories]
  [Memory — kill top RAM hogs]
  [Startup / Network / Skip...]

AskUserQuestion call 3 (only if "Startup / Network / Skip..."):

  [Startup — review & disable launch agents / systemd units]
  [Network — flush DNS, tune TCP, BBR (aggressive)]
  [Skip — just show the report]

Phase 5 — Confirm destructive actions per Rule 5

Per plugin Rule 5, destructive actions require explicit per-action confirmation. Before running --aggressive:

About to run AGGRESSIVE cleanup. Each item is destructive:

  • Unload launch agents: [list]
  • Docker volume prune (may delete unmounted volumes): [N] MB
  • Stale node_modules (>14 days): [list of paths]
  • TCP congestion control → BBR (Linux only)

  [Proceed with all]  [Pick categories]  [Cancel]

If "Pick categories", batch per Rule 1 (max 4 options per AskUserQuestion).

Phase 6 — Execute

Invoke the binary directly — it handles OS detection and dispatch:

# Quick clean
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-speedup --clean

# Deep clean
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-speedup --deep

# Aggressive (after confirmation)
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-speedup --aggressive

Memory hog killing (option 5 from Phase 4):

Top processes are already in the scan JSON (cpu_hogs / power_hogs). Present them in paginated AskUserQuestion calls (max 3 processes + [More...] per page, final page has [Kill selected] + [Skip]).

NEVER kill: kernel_task, launchd, WindowServer, loginwindow, Finder, Dock, systemd, init, shells (bash/zsh/fish), tmux, IDE processes (Cursor/Comet/Code), Claude, node, python, Xcode. The binary's PROTECTED_RE regex blocks these automatically.

Phase 7 — Results

After cleanup, re-scan and diff:

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 OPS > CLEANUP COMPLETE
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 Reclaimed:  [N] GB
 Disk free:  [before] GB → [after] GB
 RAM free:   [before] MB → [after] MB
 Swap:       [before] MB → [after] MB
 Health:     [before]/100 → [after]/100
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

History: ~/.ops-speedup/history.jsonl

If user came from /ops:dash, offer b) Back to dashboard.

Mode shortcuts

If $ARGUMENTS is:

  • scan or empty — Phase 1-3 only (report, no cleanup)
  • clean — run ops-speedup --clean automatically (safe)
  • deep — run ops-speedup --deep automatically (after 1 confirmation)
  • auto — run ops-speedup --clean automatically, print results
  • aggressive — run ops-speedup --aggressive after per-item confirmations

Trend analysis

~/.ops-speedup/history.jsonl is append-only. For trend questions ("is my disk filling up?", "is swap growing over time?"), read + graph:

tail -30 ~/.ops-speedup/history.jsonl | jq -r '[.ts, .ram_free_mb, .swap_mb, .disk_pct] | @tsv'

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take davepoon/ops-speedup from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

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