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The JavaScript benchmarking reference explains how to measure a suspected bottleneck but gives little help choosing what to investigate or deciding whether synchronous work should become asynchronous.

Add a hunt checklist based on work counts, growth with input size, queueing, and resource lifetimes. Explain how to compare async I/O, chunked yielding, and reused workers using responsiveness, CPU, memory, and transfer costs. Include runtime checks for Cloudflare Workers, Bun, Electron, web, and React Native, with official Node and Cloudflare documentation links.

This stays in the existing benchmarking reference and adds no skill, dependency, or always-on rule. Apply the checklist during a performance investigation; it does not call for changing cold code or moving every synchronous call to a worker. The observed failure was treating component timings as whole-server evidence and carrying guessed worker thresholds into guidance. The new wording requires representative concurrency and distinguishes loop stalls from total work. Its effect on future agent behavior has not been evaluated.

Validation: Node tests (151 passed, 7 skipped); Bun tests (488 passed, 8 skipped); skill tests (338 passed); package verification with Bun; lint; formatting; and guidance-link checks all passed. Lint reports one warning in an unchanged test file. The added prose passes the writing check; the existing reference retains eight pre-existing writing cues.

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  • Documentation
    • Added guidance for selecting JavaScript/TypeScript performance investigations, using representative workloads, counting work, and varying one input at a time.
    • Expanded advice on assessing repeated work, resource lifetimes, synchronous blocking, and long stalls.
    • Added comparison guidance for reducing work, async I/O, yielding, and reused workers, including equal-work, concurrency, responsiveness, and resource measurements.
    • Included runtime-specific measurement caveats and criteria for recording results and stopping investigations.

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The JavaScript performance guide now covers investigation selection, synchronous work and offloading tradeoffs, and runtime-specific measurement. The Unreleased changelog records the addition.

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Performance investigation guidance
skills/hr-benchmarking/references/javascript.md, CHANGELOG.md
The guide adds criteria for selecting investigations, evaluating blocked time and offloading costs, and measuring in Cloudflare Workers, Bun, Electron, and React Native/web. The changelog records the guidance.

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The blocked-time calculation is now stated with consistent units. The guidance is ready to merge after normal checks.

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  • observed — CHANGELOG.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
  • observed — skills (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in CHANGELOG.md: Adds hr-benchmarking guidance for JavaScript performance hunts, including work and resource analysis, async and worker tradeoffs, queueing and transfer costs, runtime-specific measurement, and responsiveness versus total CPU cost.
  • observed — Modified behavior in skills/hr-benchmarking/references/javascript.md: Adds criteria for choosing performance investigations: start from user-visible work, measure representative workloads, inspect counts and repeated or retained work, vary one input at a time, and record null results. Candidate investigations stop when benefit is within the declared variation criterion or cannot materially improve the chosen outcome; no universal percentage cutoff is specified.
  • observed — Modified behavior in skills/hr-benchmarking/references/javascript.md: Adds guidance for evaluating synchronous work using longest blocked intervals and call-rate-weighted blocked time, comparing against actual response or frame budgets. It recommends reducing unnecessary work before evaluating asynchronous I/O or reused workers, and requires comparisons to account for scheduling, pool contention, startup, messaging, memory, cancellation, shutdown, queueing, and unrelated-request latency. It states that async or worker offloading has no universal win threshold and may improve responsiveness while increasing CPU cost.
  • observed — Modified behavior in skills/hr-benchmarking/references/javascript.md: Adds runtime-specific measurement checks: deployed Cloudflare timers do not time uninterrupted CPU sections, so local attribution must be confirmed with deployed CPU metrics; Bun hot paths require runtime verification and profiling; Electron renderer and main-process work should be attributed separately; and React Native/web measurements should use production builds and distinguish JavaScript work from UI work.
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- Line 62: Update the weighted blocked-time guidance to distinguish milliseconds
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