@claude-flow/cli 3.38.12 → 3.38.14

package/plugins/ruflo-metaharness/.claude-flow/logs/headless/optimize_1783614650481_2zdz7w_result.log

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+[2026-07-09T16:34:02.327Z] RESULT
+============================================================
+{
+  "success": true,
+  "output": "## Performance Analysis — `plugins/ruflo-metaharness`\n\nScope note: this plugin is a Node.js CLI-orchestration layer (32 `.mjs` scripts, ~7K lines) that shells out to sibling CLIs (`metaharness`, `harness`, `@metaharness/darwin`, `@metaharness/redblue`) and to `@claude-flow/cli`. **There's no React and no database here**, so I've mapped your categories onto the equivalent patterns for this codebase: subprocess spawns stand in for \"queries,\" and script-level state stands in for \"components.\"\n\n### 1. N+1 pattern — `audit-list.mjs:99-117`\n\n`memList()` does one `npx @claude-flow/cli@latest memory list` call, then the code loops over every matched key and calls `memRetrieve(key)` — **one full subprocess spawn per record, serially**:\n\n```js\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // separate npx spawn, every iteration\n  ...\n}\n```\n\nYour own `test-mcp-tools.mjs:177-182` comment confirms each of these calls pays *npx registry resolution + full CLI startup (agentic-flow/ONNX load)* — that's why CI timeouts had to be bumped to 180s. With the default `--limit 20`, one `audit-list` invocation is 21 sequential subprocess spawns.\n\n**Fix:** parallelize the retrieves the same way `oia-audit.mjs:86-96` already parallelizes its 5 sub-audits with `Promise.all` + async spawn — this codebase already has the pattern, it just wasn't applied here:\n\n```js\nconst rows = (await Promise.all(slice.map(key => memRetrieveAsync(key))))\n  .filter(Boolean)\n  .map(rec => ({ key: rec.key, ... }));\n```\n\n### 2. Caching opportunity — uncached `npx` calls to your own CLI\n\n`_harness.mjs:21-35` documents (in detail) fixing exactly this problem for the `metaharness`/`harness` binaries: pin the version, resolve locally once (`findLocalPackageDir`), memoize (`RESOLVED`), and only fall back to a one-time cached install — eliminating the per-call npm registry check.\n\nThat fix was **never applied to calls against `@claude-flow/cli` itself**, even though it's an in-repo sibling package. Four scripts independently re-spawn `npx @claude-flow/cli@latest ...` on every call:\n\n- `audit-list.mjs:46-49, 57-60`\n- `audit-trend.mjs:65-68`\n- `oia-audit.mjs:100-105` (`persist()`)\n- `similarity.mjs:69-70`\n\n**Fix:** extract a shared `_memory.mjs` (mirroring `_harness.mjs`'s bin-resolution pattern) that resolves `@claude-flow/cli` once via `findLocalPackageDir`/memoized cache and invokes `node <resolved-path>` directly instead of `npx`. This also collapses the copy-pasted `memRetrieve`/`CLI_PKG` boilerplate duplicated in all four files into one implementation.\n\n### 3. Same issue, worse — `_darwin.mjs:80, 125`\n\n`runDarwin`/`runDarwinAsync` still use the *pre-fix* pattern the `_harness.mjs` header explicitly calls out as solved elsewhere:\n\n```js\nspawnSync('npx', ['-y', '-p', DARWIN_PIN, 'metaharness-darwin', ...argv], ...)\n```\n\n`_redblue.mjs` and `_harness.mjs` moved to `ensureCachedInstall` + direct `node <path>` invocation; `_darwin.mjs` never got the same treatment, so every `evolve`, `bench verify`, and `security bench` call pays an npm registry round-trip that its sibling helpers eliminated.\n\n**Fix:** swap `_darwin.mjs`'s spawn call for the `ensureCachedInstall({pkg: DARWIN_PKG, pinVersion: DARWIN_PIN_VERSION, cliRelPath})` + direct `node` invocation pattern already in `_invoke.mjs`.\n\n### 4. Resource leak — `redblue.mjs:191-280`\n\n```js\nconst dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'ruflo-redblue-'));\nsynthOut = join(dir, 'report.json');\n...\nif (synthOut && existsSync(synthOut)) {\n  try { unlinkSync(synthOut); } catch { /* ignore */ }\n}\n```\n\nEvery code path (success, degraded, parse-failure) unlinks the **file** but never removes the **directory** `mkdtempSync` created. Compare with `drift-from-history.mjs:245,355-357` and `test-pipeline-roundtrip.mjs:75,573`, both of which correctly do `rmSync(tmp, { recursive: true, force: true })`. Every `redblue run`/`patch` call without `--out` (which includes every MCP-tool-driven invocation, per `oia-audit`'s pattern) leaves an orphaned empty directory in `$TMPDIR` — this accumulates on cron-scheduled or CI-repeated runs.\n\n**Fix:**\n```js\nif (synthOut) {\n  try { rmSync(dirname(synthOut), { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch { /* ignore */ }\n}\n```\n\n### 5. Minor — redundant JSON scraping (`_invoke.mjs:76-85`, and duplicated inline in `audit-list.mjs`/`audit-trend.mjs`)\n\n`parseTrailingJson` runs a non-greedy global regex over full stdout and JSON-parses each candidate match from the end until one succeeds — fine for typical output sizes, but worst-case is O(n²) on large/deeply-nested stdout. Low priority given current payload sizes, but note that `audit-list.mjs:51,62` and `audit-trend.mjs:71` re-implement a *simpler, buggier* version of this inline (single greedy match, no last-block handling) instead of importing the shared `parseTrailingJson` — worth consolidating for correctness as much as performance.\n\n---\n\n**Summary of what to fix, in priority order:** (1) parallelize `audit-list`'s N `memRetrieve` calls, (2) extract a shared cached `_memory.mjs` helper for all `@claude-flow/cli` calls, (3) apply the same helper to `_darwin.mjs`, (4) fix the `redblue.mjs` temp-dir leak. All four are concrete, low-risk, and follow patterns already proven elsewhere in this exact codebase.\n",
+  "parsedOutput": {
+    "sections": [
+      {
+        "title": "Performance Analysis — `plugins/ruflo-metaharness`",
+        "content": "\nScope note: this plugin is a Node.js CLI-orchestration layer (32 `.mjs` scripts, ~7K lines) that shells out to sibling CLIs (`metaharness`, `harness`, `@metaharness/darwin`, `@metaharness/redblue`) and to `@claude-flow/cli`. **There's no React and no database here**, so I've mapped your categories onto the equivalent patterns for this codebase: subprocess spawns stand in for \"queries,\" and script-level state stands in for \"components.\"\n\n",
+        "level": 2
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "1. N+1 pattern — `audit-list.mjs:99-117`",
+        "content": "\n`memList()` does one `npx @claude-flow/cli@latest memory list` call, then the code loops over every matched key and calls `memRetrieve(key)` — **one full subprocess spawn per record, serially**:\n\n```js\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // separate npx spawn, every iteration\n  ...\n}\n```\n\nYour own `test-mcp-tools.mjs:177-182` comment confirms each of these calls pays *npx registry resolution + full CLI startup (agentic-flow/ONNX load)* — that's why CI timeouts had to be bumped to 180s. With the default `--limit 20`, one `audit-list` invocation is 21 sequential subprocess spawns.\n\n**Fix:** parallelize the retrieves the same way `oia-audit.mjs:86-96` already parallelizes its 5 sub-audits with `Promise.all` + async spawn — this codebase already has the pattern, it just wasn't applied here:\n\n```js\nconst rows = (await Promise.all(slice.map(key => memRetrieveAsync(key))))\n  .filter(Boolean)\n  .map(rec => ({ key: rec.key, ... }));\n```\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "2. Caching opportunity — uncached `npx` calls to your own CLI",
+        "content": "\n`_harness.mjs:21-35` documents (in detail) fixing exactly this problem for the `metaharness`/`harness` binaries: pin the version, resolve locally once (`findLocalPackageDir`), memoize (`RESOLVED`), and only fall back to a one-time cached install — eliminating the per-call npm registry check.\n\nThat fix was **never applied to calls against `@claude-flow/cli` itself**, even though it's an in-repo sibling package. Four scripts independently re-spawn `npx @claude-flow/cli@latest ...` on every call:\n\n- `audit-list.mjs:46-49, 57-60`\n- `audit-trend.mjs:65-68`\n- `oia-audit.mjs:100-105` (`persist()`)\n- `similarity.mjs:69-70`\n\n**Fix:** extract a shared `_memory.mjs` (mirroring `_harness.mjs`'s bin-resolution pattern) that resolves `@claude-flow/cli` once via `findLocalPackageDir`/memoized cache and invokes `node <resolved-path>` directly instead of `npx`. This also collapses the copy-pasted `memRetrieve`/`CLI_PKG` boilerplate duplicated in all four files into one implementation.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "3. Same issue, worse — `_darwin.mjs:80, 125`",
+        "content": "\n`runDarwin`/`runDarwinAsync` still use the *pre-fix* pattern the `_harness.mjs` header explicitly calls out as solved elsewhere:\n\n```js\nspawnSync('npx', ['-y', '-p', DARWIN_PIN, 'metaharness-darwin', ...argv], ...)\n```\n\n`_redblue.mjs` and `_harness.mjs` moved to `ensureCachedInstall` + direct `node <path>` invocation; `_darwin.mjs` never got the same treatment, so every `evolve`, `bench verify`, and `security bench` call pays an npm registry round-trip that its sibling helpers eliminated.\n\n**Fix:** swap `_darwin.mjs`'s spawn call for the `ensureCachedInstall({pkg: DARWIN_PKG, pinVersion: DARWIN_PIN_VERSION, cliRelPath})` + direct `node` invocation pattern already in `_invoke.mjs`.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "4. Resource leak — `redblue.mjs:191-280`",
+        "content": "\n```js\nconst dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'ruflo-redblue-'));\nsynthOut = join(dir, 'report.json');\n...\nif (synthOut && existsSync(synthOut)) {\n  try { unlinkSync(synthOut); } catch { /* ignore */ }\n}\n```\n\nEvery code path (success, degraded, parse-failure) unlinks the **file** but never removes the **directory** `mkdtempSync` created. Compare with `drift-from-history.mjs:245,355-357` and `test-pipeline-roundtrip.mjs:75,573`, both of which correctly do `rmSync(tmp, { recursive: true, force: true })`. Every `redblue run`/`patch` call without `--out` (which includes every MCP-tool-driven invocation, per `oia-audit`'s pattern) leaves an orphaned empty directory in `$TMPDIR` — this accumulates on cron-scheduled or CI-repeated runs.\n\n**Fix:**\n```js\nif (synthOut) {\n  try { rmSync(dirname(synthOut), { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch { /* ignore */ }\n}\n```\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "5. Minor — redundant JSON scraping (`_invoke.mjs:76-85`, and duplicated inline in `audit-list.mjs`/`audit-trend.mjs`)",
+        "content": "`parseTrailingJson` runs a non-greedy global regex over full stdout and JSON-parses each candidate match from the end until one succeeds — fine for typical output sizes, but worst-case is O(n²) on large/deeply-nested stdout. Low priority given current payload sizes, but note that `audit-list.mjs:51,62` and `audit-trend.mjs:71` re-implement a *simpler, buggier* version of this inline (single greedy match, no last-block handling) instead of importing the shared `parseTrailingJson` — worth consolidating for correctness as much as performance.\n\n---\n\n**Summary of what to fix, in priority order:** (1) parallelize `audit-list`'s N `memRetrieve` calls, (2) extract a shared cached `_memory.mjs` helper for all `@claude-flow/cli` calls, (3) apply the same helper to `_darwin.mjs`, (4) fix the `redblue.mjs` temp-dir leak. All four are concrete, low-risk, and follow patterns already proven elsewhere in this exact codebase.",
+        "level": 3
+      }
+    ],
+    "codeBlocks": [
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "for (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // separate npx spawn, every iteration\n  ...\n}"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "const rows = (await Promise.all(slice.map(key => memRetrieveAsync(key))))\n  .filter(Boolean)\n  .map(rec => ({ key: rec.key, ... }));"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "spawnSync('npx', ['-y', '-p', DARWIN_PIN, 'metaharness-darwin', ...argv], ...)"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'ruflo-redblue-'));\nsynthOut = join(dir, 'report.json');\n...\nif (synthOut && existsSync(synthOut)) {\n  try { unlinkSync(synthOut); } catch { /* ignore */ }\n}"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "if (synthOut) {\n  try { rmSync(dirname(synthOut), { recursive: true, force: true }); } catch { /* ignore */ }\n}"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "durationMs": 191846,
+  "model": "sonnet",
+  "sandboxMode": "permissive",
+  "workerType": "optimize",
+  "timestamp": "2026-07-09T16:34:02.327Z",
+  "executionId": "optimize_1783614650481_2zdz7w"
+}

package/plugins/ruflo-metaharness/.claude-flow/logs/headless/optimize_1783615742328_rjj69d_prompt.log

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+[2026-07-09T16:49:02.329Z] PROMPT
+============================================================
+Analyze this codebase for performance optimizations:
+- Identify N+1 query patterns
+- Find unnecessary re-renders in React
+- Suggest caching opportunities
+- Identify memory leaks
+- Find redundant computations
+
+Provide actionable suggestions with code examples.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Analyze the codebase and provide your response following the format specified in the task.

package/plugins/ruflo-metaharness/.claude-flow/logs/headless/optimize_1783615742328_rjj69d_result.log

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+[2026-07-09T16:51:07.218Z] RESULT
+============================================================
+{
+  "success": true,
+  "output": "## Performance Analysis — `ruflo-metaharness` plugin\n\nThis plugin has no React/DB layer — it's a ~6,900-line collection of Node CLI scripts (`scripts/*.mjs`) that shell out to `npx`/subprocess binaries and an external memory namespace. I mapped your five categories to their actual analogs here and verified each finding by reading the code (not just grepping).\n\n### 1. N+1 pattern (subprocess-spawn analog) — **confirmed, highest impact**\n\n`scripts/audit-list.mjs:82-117` — `main()` first calls `memList()` once, then loops over every matching key and calls `memRetrieve(key)` **individually**, each of which is a **blocking `spawnSync('npx', …)`** — a full new process per record:\n\n```js\n// audit-list.mjs:103-105\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // spawnSync('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', ...])\n  ...\n}\n```\n\nWith the default `--limit 20` (or up to 50, as `drift-from-history.mjs:154` requests), this is 1 + N synchronous subprocess spawns, run serially, each paying full `npx` startup cost. This is exactly the N+1 shape — one query to list, N queries to hydrate.\n\n**Fix** — batch or parallelize:\n```js\n// Option A: parallelize with async spawn (same pattern _harness.mjs already uses)\nconst rows = await Promise.all(\n  slice.map((key) => memRetrieveAsync(key))\n).then((recs) => recs.filter(Boolean).map(toRow));\n\n// Option B (better): if the CLI's `memory list` can return values inline\n// (many `memory list` implementations support --with-values), use that\n// and skip the N retrieve calls entirely.\n```\n\n### 2. Redundant/duplicated expensive resolution — **confirmed**\n\n`_harness.mjs`'s own header comment documents a real perf fix it made for the `metaharness` binary: raw `npx pkg@latest` forces an **npm registry check on every call**, so it was replaced with a pinned-version + local-cache-install strategy (`ensureCachedInstall`), making repeat calls a zero-network `node <path>` spawn.\n\nThat fix was never applied to the sibling scripts that talk to the memory CLI. Four files still default to `@latest` and shell out raw:\n```\naudit-list.mjs:22   CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\naudit-trend.mjs:39  CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\noia-audit.mjs:36    CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\nsimilarity.mjs:31   CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\n```\nEvery `spawnSync('npx', [CLI_PKG, ...])` call in these files (memList, memRetrieve, memStore) pays a registry-metadata round trip. Combined with finding #1, `audit-list --limit 50` is up to 51 separate npx registry checks.\n\n**Fix** — reuse the exact resolution strategy `_harness.mjs` already implements (`findLocalPackageDir` / `ensureCachedInstall` from `_invoke.mjs`) for `@claude-flow/cli` too, instead of duplicating the older raw-`npx @latest` call in 4+ places.\n\n### 3. \"Re-render\" analog — N/A, confirmed absent\n\nNo React/Vue/frontend code exists in this plugin (`grep -rl \"from 'react'\"` returned nothing). Nothing to report here.\n\n### 4. Caching opportunities\n\n- **`_similarity.mjs`** (`projectToVec`, `cosine`, etc.) is pure and cheap (9-dim vectors) — not worth memoizing.\n- **The real caching win is at the process level**, not in-memory: findings #1/#2 above are the caching opportunity — cache/reuse the resolved CLI binary path and batch the memory reads instead of re-resolving/re-spawning per call.\n- `drift-from-history.mjs` (lines 148-206) is a **good example already done right** — it explicitly parallelizes `audit-list` + `oia-audit` via `Promise.all`/async `spawn`, with `--baseline-key`/`--baseline-file` fast paths that skip the expensive call chain entirely (documented \"~25s → ~1s\"). Worth pointing audit-list.mjs's contributors at this file as the pattern to copy.\n\n### 5. Memory leaks\n\nNone found. These are one-shot CLI scripts (process exits after `main()`), and the async-spawn helpers (`_harness.mjs:126-165`, `_darwin.mjs:120-155`) properly `clearTimeout` on both `close` and `error`, and use `{ once: true }` on abort listeners — no leak risk even in a long-lived host process.\n\n### 6. Redundant computation\n\n- `test-pipeline-roundtrip.mjs` has 5 `JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(audit))` deep-clones (lines 244, 406, 474, 476, 495) — fine as-is since it's test fixture code called a handful of times, not a hot path. Not worth changing.\n- No other O(n²)/duplicate-work patterns found in the scanned scripts.\n\n---\n\n**Priority order:**\n1. Fix `audit-list.mjs`'s N+1 `memRetrieve` loop (biggest, easiest win — parallelize or batch).\n2. Apply `_harness.mjs`'s pinned+cached resolution strategy to `audit-list.mjs`, `audit-trend.mjs`, `oia-audit.mjs`, `similarity.mjs` instead of raw `npx pkg@latest`.\n\nBoth are self-contained, low-risk changes in scripts you already own, with a working reference implementation (`_harness.mjs`, `drift-from-history.mjs`) already in the same repo. Want me to implement the `audit-list.mjs` fix now?\n",
+  "parsedOutput": {
+    "sections": [
+      {
+        "title": "Performance Analysis — `ruflo-metaharness` plugin",
+        "content": "\nThis plugin has no React/DB layer — it's a ~6,900-line collection of Node CLI scripts (`scripts/*.mjs`) that shell out to `npx`/subprocess binaries and an external memory namespace. I mapped your five categories to their actual analogs here and verified each finding by reading the code (not just grepping).\n\n",
+        "level": 2
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "1. N+1 pattern (subprocess-spawn analog) — **confirmed, highest impact**",
+        "content": "\n`scripts/audit-list.mjs:82-117` — `main()` first calls `memList()` once, then loops over every matching key and calls `memRetrieve(key)` **individually**, each of which is a **blocking `spawnSync('npx', …)`** — a full new process per record:\n\n```js\n// audit-list.mjs:103-105\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // spawnSync('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', ...])\n  ...\n}\n```\n\nWith the default `--limit 20` (or up to 50, as `drift-from-history.mjs:154` requests), this is 1 + N synchronous subprocess spawns, run serially, each paying full `npx` startup cost. This is exactly the N+1 shape — one query to list, N queries to hydrate.\n\n**Fix** — batch or parallelize:\n```js\n// Option A: parallelize with async spawn (same pattern _harness.mjs already uses)\nconst rows = await Promise.all(\n  slice.map((key) => memRetrieveAsync(key))\n).then((recs) => recs.filter(Boolean).map(toRow));\n\n// Option B (better): if the CLI's `memory list` can return values inline\n// (many `memory list` implementations support --with-values), use that\n// and skip the N retrieve calls entirely.\n```\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "2. Redundant/duplicated expensive resolution — **confirmed**",
+        "content": "\n`_harness.mjs`'s own header comment documents a real perf fix it made for the `metaharness` binary: raw `npx pkg@latest` forces an **npm registry check on every call**, so it was replaced with a pinned-version + local-cache-install strategy (`ensureCachedInstall`), making repeat calls a zero-network `node <path>` spawn.\n\nThat fix was never applied to the sibling scripts that talk to the memory CLI. Four files still default to `@latest` and shell out raw:\n```\naudit-list.mjs:22   CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\naudit-trend.mjs:39  CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\noia-audit.mjs:36    CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\nsimilarity.mjs:31   CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\n```\nEvery `spawnSync('npx', [CLI_PKG, ...])` call in these files (memList, memRetrieve, memStore) pays a registry-metadata round trip. Combined with finding #1, `audit-list --limit 50` is up to 51 separate npx registry checks.\n\n**Fix** — reuse the exact resolution strategy `_harness.mjs` already implements (`findLocalPackageDir` / `ensureCachedInstall` from `_invoke.mjs`) for `@claude-flow/cli` too, instead of duplicating the older raw-`npx @latest` call in 4+ places.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "3. \"Re-render\" analog — N/A, confirmed absent",
+        "content": "\nNo React/Vue/frontend code exists in this plugin (`grep -rl \"from 'react'\"` returned nothing). Nothing to report here.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "4. Caching opportunities",
+        "content": "\n- **`_similarity.mjs`** (`projectToVec`, `cosine`, etc.) is pure and cheap (9-dim vectors) — not worth memoizing.\n- **The real caching win is at the process level**, not in-memory: findings #1/#2 above are the caching opportunity — cache/reuse the resolved CLI binary path and batch the memory reads instead of re-resolving/re-spawning per call.\n- `drift-from-history.mjs` (lines 148-206) is a **good example already done right** — it explicitly parallelizes `audit-list` + `oia-audit` via `Promise.all`/async `spawn`, with `--baseline-key`/`--baseline-file` fast paths that skip the expensive call chain entirely (documented \"~25s → ~1s\"). Worth pointing audit-list.mjs's contributors at this file as the pattern to copy.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "5. Memory leaks",
+        "content": "\nNone found. These are one-shot CLI scripts (process exits after `main()`), and the async-spawn helpers (`_harness.mjs:126-165`, `_darwin.mjs:120-155`) properly `clearTimeout` on both `close` and `error`, and use `{ once: true }` on abort listeners — no leak risk even in a long-lived host process.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "6. Redundant computation",
+        "content": "- `test-pipeline-roundtrip.mjs` has 5 `JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(audit))` deep-clones (lines 244, 406, 474, 476, 495) — fine as-is since it's test fixture code called a handful of times, not a hot path. Not worth changing.\n- No other O(n²)/duplicate-work patterns found in the scanned scripts.\n\n---\n\n**Priority order:**\n1. Fix `audit-list.mjs`'s N+1 `memRetrieve` loop (biggest, easiest win — parallelize or batch).\n2. Apply `_harness.mjs`'s pinned+cached resolution strategy to `audit-list.mjs`, `audit-trend.mjs`, `oia-audit.mjs`, `similarity.mjs` instead of raw `npx pkg@latest`.\n\nBoth are self-contained, low-risk changes in scripts you already own, with a working reference implementation (`_harness.mjs`, `drift-from-history.mjs`) already in the same repo. Want me to implement the `audit-list.mjs` fix now?",
+        "level": 3
+      }
+    ],
+    "codeBlocks": [
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "// audit-list.mjs:103-105\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // spawnSync('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', ...])\n  ...\n}"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "// Option A: parallelize with async spawn (same pattern _harness.mjs already uses)\nconst rows = await Promise.all(\n  slice.map((key) => memRetrieveAsync(key))\n).then((recs) => recs.filter(Boolean).map(toRow));\n\n// Option B (better): if the CLI's `memory list` can return values inline\n// (many `memory list` implementations support --with-values), use that\n// and skip the N retrieve calls entirely."
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "text",
+        "code": "audit-list.mjs:22   CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\naudit-trend.mjs:39  CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\noia-audit.mjs:36    CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\nsimilarity.mjs:31   CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "durationMs": 124889,
+  "model": "sonnet",
+  "sandboxMode": "permissive",
+  "workerType": "optimize",
+  "timestamp": "2026-07-09T16:51:07.217Z",
+  "executionId": "optimize_1783615742328_rjj69d"
+}

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+[2026-07-09T17:06:07.231Z] PROMPT
+============================================================
+Analyze this codebase for performance optimizations:
+- Identify N+1 query patterns
+- Find unnecessary re-renders in React
+- Suggest caching opportunities
+- Identify memory leaks
+- Find redundant computations
+
+Provide actionable suggestions with code examples.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Analyze the codebase and provide your response following the format specified in the task.

package/plugins/ruflo-metaharness/.claude-flow/logs/headless/optimize_1783616767230_1iad99_result.log

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+[2026-07-09T17:08:03.525Z] RESULT
+============================================================
+{
+  "success": true,
+  "output": "## Performance Analysis — `plugins/ruflo-metaharness`\n\nThis is a Node.js CLI script collection (32 `.mjs` files, no framework/DB/React) that wraps the upstream `metaharness`/`harness` binaries and shells out to `npx @claude-flow/cli` for memory storage. There's no React or SQL here, so I mapped the requested categories onto their actual equivalents in this codebase: subprocess-based \"N+1\" patterns, CLI-invocation caching, and redundant re-computation. Worth noting up front: this code is unusually well-optimized already — comments reference specific \"iter N\" perf fixes (parallelizing 5-way audits, skipping fast-paths, etc.). The findings below are the gaps that survived those passes.\n\n### 1. N+1 subprocess pattern — `audit-list.mjs:103-117`\n\n`memList()` fetches all keys in one call, then the code spawns a **separate `npx` subprocess per record**, sequentially, via `spawnSync` in a `for` loop:\n\n```js\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // spawnSync('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', ...])\n  ...\n}\n```\n\nEach `npx ...` invocation pays full Node startup + CLI bootstrap (the codebase's own comment in `test-mcp-tools.mjs:177-179` documents this: *\"npx @claude-flow/cli@latest memory list ... pays both the npx fetch AND a full CLI startup which loads agentic-flow + ONNX\"*). With `--limit 50` (the value `drift-from-history.mjs:154` passes), that's up to 50 sequential subprocess spawns — this is exactly the N+1 pattern `oia-audit.mjs` fixed for its own 5 calls in \"iter 56\" (see `runAllParallel`, `_harness.mjs:127-182`), but the same fix was never applied here.\n\n**Fix** — mirror the existing async-spawn helper pattern already in the codebase:\n\n```js\nimport { spawn } from 'node:child_process';\n\nfunction memRetrieveAsync(key) {\n  return new Promise((resolve) => {\n    const p = spawn('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', '--namespace', NS, '--key', key], { stdio: ['ignore','pipe','pipe'] });\n    let stdout = '';\n    p.stdout.on('data', d => stdout += d);\n    p.on('close', () => {\n      const m = /\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout);\n      resolve(m ? JSON.parse(m[0]) : null);\n    });\n  });\n}\n\nconst rows = (await Promise.all(slice.map(memRetrieveAsync)))\n  .filter(Boolean)\n  .map(rec => ({ /* ...same shape... */ }));\n```\n\nBounded concurrency (`Promise.all` over a `--limit`-capped slice, typically ≤50) is safe here — no need for a queue.\n\n### 2. Unpinned `@latest` defeats the codebase's own caching lesson\n\n`_harness.mjs`/`_invoke.mjs` explicitly document (and fixed) that `npx pkg@latest` forces a **registry metadata check on every call** and is a supply-chain risk — they pin `metaharness` to `~0.3.0` and cache it locally. But five other files still default to the unpinned tag for the `@claude-flow/cli` memory calls:\n\n```\nscripts/audit-trend.mjs:41\nscripts/audit-list.mjs:24\nscripts/drift-from-history.mjs:47\nscripts/oia-audit.mjs:38\nscripts/similarity.mjs:33\n```\n```js\nconst CLI_PKG = process.env.CLI_CORE === '1'\n  ? '@claude-flow/cli-core@alpha'\n  : '@claude-flow/cli@latest';   // ← unpinned, opt-out only via env var\n```\n\nGiven `audit-list.mjs`'s per-record loop (finding #1) multiplies this cost by N, and the CI comment already measures this as the dominant cost of the \"chain tools\" (30x timeout headroom needed — `test-mcp-tools.mjs:176-181`), this is the highest-leverage fix in the plugin.\n\n**Fix** — apply the same pinned-version + local-resolution pattern `_invoke.mjs::findLocalPackageDir`/`ensureCachedInstall` already implements for `metaharness`, to `@claude-flow/cli` too (it's a sibling package in the same monorepo, so a local walk-up resolution — checked first — would eliminate essentially all of these `npx` round-trips when running from within the ruflo repo itself).\n\n### 3. Double process-spawn overhead in `drift-from-history.mjs`\n\n`drift-from-history.mjs` composes `audit-list.mjs` + `oia-audit.mjs` + `audit-trend.mjs` by spawning each as a **full child Node process** (`runScriptJsonAsync`, `runScriptJson` — lines 113-146), rather than importing them as functions. This means: 3 separate Node process boots, plus whatever `npx` subprocesses each child spawns internally (finding #1/#2 compound here). The parallelization work already done (iter 58/65/66/67) mitigates wall-clock but not the redundant process-startup cost itself.\n\n**Suggestion** — since `audit-list.mjs`, `oia-audit.mjs`, and `audit-trend.mjs` are all pure ESM modules in the same directory, refactor their `main()` bodies into exported functions (`runAuditList(args)`, `runOiaAudit(args)`, etc.) that `drift-from-history.mjs` calls in-process via `Promise.all`, keeping each file's CLI `main()` as a thin wrapper. This avoids ~3 Node cold-starts per drift check without changing behavior — the async-parallel work already done means minimal restructuring.\n\n### 4. Unbounded stdout accumulation buffers (minor, memory-adjacent)\n\nBoth `_harness.mjs:145-147` (`execBinAsync`) and `drift-from-history.mjs:135-137` accumulate subprocess output via string concatenation:\n\n```js\np.stdout?.on('data', (d) => { stdout += d.toString(); });\n```\n\nFor the JSON payloads these CLIs normally emit this is fine, but it's unbounded — a runaway or misbehaving upstream binary emitting large/looping output would grow this string without limit for the life of the subprocess. Low risk given `timeoutMs` caps duration, but worth a defensive cap (e.g. truncate past ~5MB and mark the result `truncated: true`) since these are exactly the code paths already hardened against \"upstream misbehaves\" (timeout/degraded handling).\n\n### What's already good (no action needed)\n- `_harness.mjs`'s bin resolution is properly memoized per-process (`let RESOLVED = null`) and cached to disk across runs — a solid single-flight + persistent-cache pattern.\n- `oia-audit.mjs`'s 5-way parallel fan-out (`runAllParallel`) and `drift-from-history.mjs`'s list/audit race are correct uses of `Promise.all` for independent I/O.\n- `_similarity.mjs` is pure, allocation-light numeric code (fixed 9-dim vectors) — no redundant recomputation there.\n- `evolve.mjs`'s diagnosis pass reads a bounded 100 files and single-passes them — fine for a CLI report generator.\n\n**Bottom line**: fix #1 and #2 together — they compound (N+1 loop × unpinned-registry cost per call) and are the most measurable win, directly evidenced by the codebase's own CI timeout comments.\n",
+  "parsedOutput": {
+    "sections": [
+      {
+        "title": "Performance Analysis — `plugins/ruflo-metaharness`",
+        "content": "\nThis is a Node.js CLI script collection (32 `.mjs` files, no framework/DB/React) that wraps the upstream `metaharness`/`harness` binaries and shells out to `npx @claude-flow/cli` for memory storage. There's no React or SQL here, so I mapped the requested categories onto their actual equivalents in this codebase: subprocess-based \"N+1\" patterns, CLI-invocation caching, and redundant re-computation. Worth noting up front: this code is unusually well-optimized already — comments reference specific \"iter N\" perf fixes (parallelizing 5-way audits, skipping fast-paths, etc.). The findings below are the gaps that survived those passes.\n\n",
+        "level": 2
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "1. N+1 subprocess pattern — `audit-list.mjs:103-117`",
+        "content": "\n`memList()` fetches all keys in one call, then the code spawns a **separate `npx` subprocess per record**, sequentially, via `spawnSync` in a `for` loop:\n\n```js\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // spawnSync('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', ...])\n  ...\n}\n```\n\nEach `npx ...` invocation pays full Node startup + CLI bootstrap (the codebase's own comment in `test-mcp-tools.mjs:177-179` documents this: *\"npx @claude-flow/cli@latest memory list ... pays both the npx fetch AND a full CLI startup which loads agentic-flow + ONNX\"*). With `--limit 50` (the value `drift-from-history.mjs:154` passes), that's up to 50 sequential subprocess spawns — this is exactly the N+1 pattern `oia-audit.mjs` fixed for its own 5 calls in \"iter 56\" (see `runAllParallel`, `_harness.mjs:127-182`), but the same fix was never applied here.\n\n**Fix** — mirror the existing async-spawn helper pattern already in the codebase:\n\n```js\nimport { spawn } from 'node:child_process';\n\nfunction memRetrieveAsync(key) {\n  return new Promise((resolve) => {\n    const p = spawn('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', '--namespace', NS, '--key', key], { stdio: ['ignore','pipe','pipe'] });\n    let stdout = '';\n    p.stdout.on('data', d => stdout += d);\n    p.on('close', () => {\n      const m = /\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout);\n      resolve(m ? JSON.parse(m[0]) : null);\n    });\n  });\n}\n\nconst rows = (await Promise.all(slice.map(memRetrieveAsync)))\n  .filter(Boolean)\n  .map(rec => ({ /* ...same shape... */ }));\n```\n\nBounded concurrency (`Promise.all` over a `--limit`-capped slice, typically ≤50) is safe here — no need for a queue.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "2. Unpinned `@latest` defeats the codebase's own caching lesson",
+        "content": "\n`_harness.mjs`/`_invoke.mjs` explicitly document (and fixed) that `npx pkg@latest` forces a **registry metadata check on every call** and is a supply-chain risk — they pin `metaharness` to `~0.3.0` and cache it locally. But five other files still default to the unpinned tag for the `@claude-flow/cli` memory calls:\n\n```\nscripts/audit-trend.mjs:41\nscripts/audit-list.mjs:24\nscripts/drift-from-history.mjs:47\nscripts/oia-audit.mjs:38\nscripts/similarity.mjs:33\n```\n```js\nconst CLI_PKG = process.env.CLI_CORE === '1'\n  ? '@claude-flow/cli-core@alpha'\n  : '@claude-flow/cli@latest';   // ← unpinned, opt-out only via env var\n```\n\nGiven `audit-list.mjs`'s per-record loop (finding #1) multiplies this cost by N, and the CI comment already measures this as the dominant cost of the \"chain tools\" (30x timeout headroom needed — `test-mcp-tools.mjs:176-181`), this is the highest-leverage fix in the plugin.\n\n**Fix** — apply the same pinned-version + local-resolution pattern `_invoke.mjs::findLocalPackageDir`/`ensureCachedInstall` already implements for `metaharness`, to `@claude-flow/cli` too (it's a sibling package in the same monorepo, so a local walk-up resolution — checked first — would eliminate essentially all of these `npx` round-trips when running from within the ruflo repo itself).\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "3. Double process-spawn overhead in `drift-from-history.mjs`",
+        "content": "\n`drift-from-history.mjs` composes `audit-list.mjs` + `oia-audit.mjs` + `audit-trend.mjs` by spawning each as a **full child Node process** (`runScriptJsonAsync`, `runScriptJson` — lines 113-146), rather than importing them as functions. This means: 3 separate Node process boots, plus whatever `npx` subprocesses each child spawns internally (finding #1/#2 compound here). The parallelization work already done (iter 58/65/66/67) mitigates wall-clock but not the redundant process-startup cost itself.\n\n**Suggestion** — since `audit-list.mjs`, `oia-audit.mjs`, and `audit-trend.mjs` are all pure ESM modules in the same directory, refactor their `main()` bodies into exported functions (`runAuditList(args)`, `runOiaAudit(args)`, etc.) that `drift-from-history.mjs` calls in-process via `Promise.all`, keeping each file's CLI `main()` as a thin wrapper. This avoids ~3 Node cold-starts per drift check without changing behavior — the async-parallel work already done means minimal restructuring.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "4. Unbounded stdout accumulation buffers (minor, memory-adjacent)",
+        "content": "\nBoth `_harness.mjs:145-147` (`execBinAsync`) and `drift-from-history.mjs:135-137` accumulate subprocess output via string concatenation:\n\n```js\np.stdout?.on('data', (d) => { stdout += d.toString(); });\n```\n\nFor the JSON payloads these CLIs normally emit this is fine, but it's unbounded — a runaway or misbehaving upstream binary emitting large/looping output would grow this string without limit for the life of the subprocess. Low risk given `timeoutMs` caps duration, but worth a defensive cap (e.g. truncate past ~5MB and mark the result `truncated: true`) since these are exactly the code paths already hardened against \"upstream misbehaves\" (timeout/degraded handling).\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "What's already good (no action needed)",
+        "content": "- `_harness.mjs`'s bin resolution is properly memoized per-process (`let RESOLVED = null`) and cached to disk across runs — a solid single-flight + persistent-cache pattern.\n- `oia-audit.mjs`'s 5-way parallel fan-out (`runAllParallel`) and `drift-from-history.mjs`'s list/audit race are correct uses of `Promise.all` for independent I/O.\n- `_similarity.mjs` is pure, allocation-light numeric code (fixed 9-dim vectors) — no redundant recomputation there.\n- `evolve.mjs`'s diagnosis pass reads a bounded 100 files and single-passes them — fine for a CLI report generator.\n\n**Bottom line**: fix #1 and #2 together — they compound (N+1 loop × unpinned-registry cost per call) and are the most measurable win, directly evidenced by the codebase's own CI timeout comments.",
+        "level": 3
+      }
+    ],
+    "codeBlocks": [
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "for (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // spawnSync('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', ...])\n  ...\n}"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';\n\nfunction memRetrieveAsync(key) {\n  return new Promise((resolve) => {\n    const p = spawn('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', '--namespace', NS, '--key', key], { stdio: ['ignore','pipe','pipe'] });\n    let stdout = '';\n    p.stdout.on('data', d => stdout += d);\n    p.on('close', () => {\n      const m = /\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout);\n      resolve(m ? JSON.parse(m[0]) : null);\n    });\n  });\n}\n\nconst rows = (await Promise.all(slice.map(memRetrieveAsync)))\n  .filter(Boolean)\n  .map(rec => ({ /* ...same shape... */ }));"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "text",
+        "code": "scripts/audit-trend.mjs:41\nscripts/audit-list.mjs:24\nscripts/drift-from-history.mjs:47\nscripts/oia-audit.mjs:38\nscripts/similarity.mjs:33"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "const CLI_PKG = process.env.CLI_CORE === '1'\n  ? '@claude-flow/cli-core@alpha'\n  : '@claude-flow/cli@latest';   // ← unpinned, opt-out only via env var"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "p.stdout?.on('data', (d) => { stdout += d.toString(); });"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "durationMs": 116295,
+  "model": "sonnet",
+  "sandboxMode": "permissive",
+  "workerType": "optimize",
+  "timestamp": "2026-07-09T17:08:03.525Z",
+  "executionId": "optimize_1783616767230_1iad99"
+}

package/plugins/ruflo-metaharness/.claude-flow/logs/headless/optimize_1783617783537_rqagku_prompt.log

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+[2026-07-09T17:23:03.538Z] PROMPT
+============================================================
+Analyze this codebase for performance optimizations:
+- Identify N+1 query patterns
+- Find unnecessary re-renders in React
+- Suggest caching opportunities
+- Identify memory leaks
+- Find redundant computations
+
+Provide actionable suggestions with code examples.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Analyze the codebase and provide your response following the format specified in the task.

package/plugins/ruflo-metaharness/.claude-flow/logs/headless/optimize_1783617783537_rqagku_result.log

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+[2026-07-09T17:25:17.379Z] RESULT
+============================================================
+{
+  "success": true,
+  "output": "This is fine — cheap pairwise math, already benchmarked in `bench-similarity.mjs`, no memoization needed since it's O(1) per call and called O(n) times per comparison, not O(n²).\n\nI have enough to write the report. This is a small Node CLI-scripts plugin (no React, no database), so I'm mapping the requested categories to what's actually applicable here.\n\n## Findings\n\n**Reality check first:** this directory (`plugins/ruflo-metaharness`) is a Claude Code plugin — agents/commands/skills as markdown plus 32 short-lived Node `.mjs` CLI scripts. There is no React code and no SQL/ORM layer, so \"re-renders\" and literal \"N+1 queries\" don't apply. I found the closest real analogs instead.\n\n### 1. N+1 subprocess pattern (the real finding) — `scripts/audit-list.mjs:82-117`\n\n`memList()` fetches all keys in one call, then the loop spawns a **separate `npx @claude-flow/cli memory retrieve` subprocess per key**, sequentially:\n\n```js\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // spawnSync('npx', [...]) — one process per key\n  ...\n}\n```\n\nEach `npx` invocation pays full Node/npm startup cost. Worse, `drift-from-history.mjs:154` calls this with `--limit 50` on its default (non-fast) path, so a single `drift-from-history` run can spawn 50 sequential `npx` processes just for the audit-list step — this is exactly the class of problem the `--baseline-key`/`--baseline-file` fast paths were added to *avoid* (per the project's own iter 66/67 notes), but `audit-list.mjs` itself, and anyone hitting the default path, still pays it.\n\n**Fix — parallelize with bounded concurrency using async `spawn` instead of sequential `spawnSync`:**\n\n```js\nimport { spawn } from 'node:child_process';\n\nfunction memRetrieveAsync(key) {\n  return new Promise((resolve) => {\n    const p = spawn('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', '--namespace', NS, '--key', key],\n      { stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });\n    let stdout = '';\n    p.stdout.on('data', (d) => stdout += d);\n    p.on('close', () => {\n      const m = /\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout);\n      resolve(m ? (() => { try { return JSON.parse(m[0]); } catch { return null; } })() : null);\n    });\n    p.on('error', () => resolve(null));\n  });\n}\n\nasync function retrieveAll(keys, concurrency = 8) {\n  const out = new Array(keys.length);\n  let i = 0;\n  async function worker() {\n    while (i < keys.length) {\n      const idx = i++;\n      out[idx] = await memRetrieveAsync(keys[idx]);\n    }\n  }\n  await Promise.all(Array.from({ length: concurrency }, worker));\n  return out;\n}\n```\n\nEven better: check whether `@claude-flow/cli memory list --format json` can return full values in one call (avoiding N+1 entirely) instead of just keys — that would cut this to a single subprocess regardless of `--limit`.\n\n### 2. React re-renders\nNot applicable — no `.tsx`/`.jsx` files exist in this plugin directory.\n\n### 3. Caching opportunities\n- `_invoke.mjs`'s `ensureCachedInstall()` and `findLocalPackageDir()` are already well-designed (version-pinned install cache dir, walk-up node_modules resolution) — no changes needed there.\n- `drift-from-history.mjs` already caches/short-circuits via `--baseline-key`/`--baseline-file` to skip `audit-list` entirely (measured ~14x/19x speedups per prior work) — good pattern, just not applied inside `audit-list.mjs` itself (see #1).\n- No in-process memoization exists for `memRetrieve` — if `audit-list` and `audit-trend` are ever invoked back-to-back for overlapping keys in the same drift run, results aren't shared. Low priority given current call shape.\n\n### 4. Memory leaks\nNot applicable in the traditional sense — every script here is a short-lived, single-shot CLI process (`main().catch(...); process.exit(...)`), not a long-running server. No `setInterval`/`while(true)`/persistent listeners were found (`grep` came back empty), so there's no accumulating in-process state to leak.\n\n### 5. Redundant computations\n- `_similarity.mjs`'s `cosine`/`categoricalAgreement`/`jaccard` are cheap O(1)-per-call math, already benchmarked (`bench-similarity.mjs`) and called O(n) times, not O(n²) — no action needed.\n- `evolve.mjs`'s `buildDiagnosis()` caps run-record scanning at `.slice(0, 100)` and is opt-in (`--diagnose`) — appropriately bounded, no fix needed.\n\n**Bottom line:** the one actionable perf win here is parallelizing (or eliminating) the per-key `memRetrieve` subprocess loop in `audit-list.mjs`, since it's the default path `drift-from-history.mjs` falls back to and directly multiplies process-spawn overhead by `--limit`.\n",
+  "parsedOutput": {
+    "sections": [
+      {
+        "title": "Findings",
+        "content": "\n**Reality check first:** this directory (`plugins/ruflo-metaharness`) is a Claude Code plugin — agents/commands/skills as markdown plus 32 short-lived Node `.mjs` CLI scripts. There is no React code and no SQL/ORM layer, so \"re-renders\" and literal \"N+1 queries\" don't apply. I found the closest real analogs instead.\n\n",
+        "level": 2
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "1. N+1 subprocess pattern (the real finding) — `scripts/audit-list.mjs:82-117`",
+        "content": "\n`memList()` fetches all keys in one call, then the loop spawns a **separate `npx @claude-flow/cli memory retrieve` subprocess per key**, sequentially:\n\n```js\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // spawnSync('npx', [...]) — one process per key\n  ...\n}\n```\n\nEach `npx` invocation pays full Node/npm startup cost. Worse, `drift-from-history.mjs:154` calls this with `--limit 50` on its default (non-fast) path, so a single `drift-from-history` run can spawn 50 sequential `npx` processes just for the audit-list step — this is exactly the class of problem the `--baseline-key`/`--baseline-file` fast paths were added to *avoid* (per the project's own iter 66/67 notes), but `audit-list.mjs` itself, and anyone hitting the default path, still pays it.\n\n**Fix — parallelize with bounded concurrency using async `spawn` instead of sequential `spawnSync`:**\n\n```js\nimport { spawn } from 'node:child_process';\n\nfunction memRetrieveAsync(key) {\n  return new Promise((resolve) => {\n    const p = spawn('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', '--namespace', NS, '--key', key],\n      { stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });\n    let stdout = '';\n    p.stdout.on('data', (d) => stdout += d);\n    p.on('close', () => {\n      const m = /\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout);\n      resolve(m ? (() => { try { return JSON.parse(m[0]); } catch { return null; } })() : null);\n    });\n    p.on('error', () => resolve(null));\n  });\n}\n\nasync function retrieveAll(keys, concurrency = 8) {\n  const out = new Array(keys.length);\n  let i = 0;\n  async function worker() {\n    while (i < keys.length) {\n      const idx = i++;\n      out[idx] = await memRetrieveAsync(keys[idx]);\n    }\n  }\n  await Promise.all(Array.from({ length: concurrency }, worker));\n  return out;\n}\n```\n\nEven better: check whether `@claude-flow/cli memory list --format json` can return full values in one call (avoiding N+1 entirely) instead of just keys — that would cut this to a single subprocess regardless of `--limit`.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "2. React re-renders",
+        "content": "Not applicable — no `.tsx`/`.jsx` files exist in this plugin directory.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "3. Caching opportunities",
+        "content": "- `_invoke.mjs`'s `ensureCachedInstall()` and `findLocalPackageDir()` are already well-designed (version-pinned install cache dir, walk-up node_modules resolution) — no changes needed there.\n- `drift-from-history.mjs` already caches/short-circuits via `--baseline-key`/`--baseline-file` to skip `audit-list` entirely (measured ~14x/19x speedups per prior work) — good pattern, just not applied inside `audit-list.mjs` itself (see #1).\n- No in-process memoization exists for `memRetrieve` — if `audit-list` and `audit-trend` are ever invoked back-to-back for overlapping keys in the same drift run, results aren't shared. Low priority given current call shape.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "4. Memory leaks",
+        "content": "Not applicable in the traditional sense — every script here is a short-lived, single-shot CLI process (`main().catch(...); process.exit(...)`), not a long-running server. No `setInterval`/`while(true)`/persistent listeners were found (`grep` came back empty), so there's no accumulating in-process state to leak.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "5. Redundant computations",
+        "content": "- `_similarity.mjs`'s `cosine`/`categoricalAgreement`/`jaccard` are cheap O(1)-per-call math, already benchmarked (`bench-similarity.mjs`) and called O(n) times, not O(n²) — no action needed.\n- `evolve.mjs`'s `buildDiagnosis()` caps run-record scanning at `.slice(0, 100)` and is opt-in (`--diagnose`) — appropriately bounded, no fix needed.\n\n**Bottom line:** the one actionable perf win here is parallelizing (or eliminating) the per-key `memRetrieve` subprocess loop in `audit-list.mjs`, since it's the default path `drift-from-history.mjs` falls back to and directly multiplies process-spawn overhead by `--limit`.",
+        "level": 3
+      }
+    ],
+    "codeBlocks": [
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "for (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // spawnSync('npx', [...]) — one process per key\n  ...\n}"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';\n\nfunction memRetrieveAsync(key) {\n  return new Promise((resolve) => {\n    const p = spawn('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', '--namespace', NS, '--key', key],\n      { stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });\n    let stdout = '';\n    p.stdout.on('data', (d) => stdout += d);\n    p.on('close', () => {\n      const m = /\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout);\n      resolve(m ? (() => { try { return JSON.parse(m[0]); } catch { return null; } })() : null);\n    });\n    p.on('error', () => resolve(null));\n  });\n}\n\nasync function retrieveAll(keys, concurrency = 8) {\n  const out = new Array(keys.length);\n  let i = 0;\n  async function worker() {\n    while (i < keys.length) {\n      const idx = i++;\n      out[idx] = await memRetrieveAsync(keys[idx]);\n    }\n  }\n  await Promise.all(Array.from({ length: concurrency }, worker));\n  return out;\n}"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "durationMs": 133842,
+  "model": "sonnet",
+  "sandboxMode": "permissive",
+  "workerType": "optimize",
+  "timestamp": "2026-07-09T17:25:17.379Z",
+  "executionId": "optimize_1783617783537_rqagku"
+}

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+[2026-07-09T17:40:17.343Z] PROMPT
+============================================================
+Analyze this codebase for performance optimizations:
+- Identify N+1 query patterns
+- Find unnecessary re-renders in React
+- Suggest caching opportunities
+- Identify memory leaks
+- Find redundant computations
+
+Provide actionable suggestions with code examples.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Analyze the codebase and provide your response following the format specified in the task.

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+[2026-07-09T17:43:27.730Z] RESULT
+============================================================
+{
+  "success": true,
+  "output": "## Performance Analysis — `plugins/ruflo-metaharness`\n\nThis is a Node.js CLI plugin (~7,000 lines across 32 `.mjs` scripts) that shells out to sibling packages (`metaharness`, `harness`, `@claude-flow/cli`). There's no React, no database ORM, so I've mapped your checklist onto what's actually here: the CLI-shaped analogs of those problems.\n\n### 1. N+1 pattern — `audit-list.mjs:103-117` (real, high impact)\n\n```js\n// 1 call: list all keys\nconst entries = memList()...  // npx @claude-flow/cli@latest memory list\n\n// N calls: one subprocess spawn PER record\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // separate npx spawn per key!\n  ...\n}\n```\n\nThis is the textbook N+1 shape: 1 \"list\" + N \"get by id\" round trips that should be one batched fetch. It's not cosmetic here — `drift-from-history.mjs`'s own comments (iters 66/67) document that this exact `memory list`/`retrieve` path pays a **~25s ONNX warmup per subprocess spawn**, which is *why* they added `--baseline-key`/`--baseline-file` fast paths to skip it entirely for the single-record case. But `audit-list.mjs` still does this in a loop — with the default `--limit 50` used by `drift-from-history.mjs`, that's up to **51 sequential ~25s cold-starts (~20+ minutes)**.\n\n**Fix** — this codebase already has the parallelization idiom for exactly this problem (`oia-audit.mjs`'s `runAllParallel`, iter 56). Apply it here:\n\n```js\nimport { spawn } from 'node:child_process';\n\nfunction memRetrieveAsync(key) {\n  return new Promise((resolve) => {\n    const p = spawn('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', '--namespace', NS, '--key', key],\n      { stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });\n    let stdout = '';\n    p.stdout.on('data', d => stdout += d);\n    p.on('close', () => {\n      const m = /\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout);\n      resolve(m ? tryParse(m[0]) : null);\n    });\n  });\n}\n// replace the for-loop with:\nconst rows = (await Promise.all(slice.map(memRetrieveAsync))).filter(Boolean);\n```\nDrops wall-clock from `sum(N × cold-start)` to `max(cold-start)` — same win they already banked for `oia-audit`'s 5 calls.\n\n### 2. `npx pkg@latest` per call — registry hit on every invocation (real, medium-high impact)\n\n`_harness.mjs`'s header comment explicitly documents fixing this exact anti-pattern for the `metaharness` package (pinned version + local `node_modules` resolution + one-time versioned cache install, via the reusable `findLocalPackageDir`/`ensureCachedInstall` helpers in `_invoke.mjs`). But the fix was never applied to the **`@claude-flow/cli` memory calls**, which still default to `@latest`:\n\n```\naudit-list.mjs:24    CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\naudit-trend.mjs:41   CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\noia-audit.mjs:38     CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\nsimilarity.mjs       CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\n```\n\nEvery `memory store`/`list`/`retrieve` call pays npx's dist-tag resolution plus a full cold start of a large CLI package — on top of the N+1 problem above, this compounds it. **Fix:** reuse `findLocalPackageDir(pkg, pinVersion)` + `ensureCachedInstall(...)` from `_invoke.mjs` (already generic, already imported elsewhere) for `@claude-flow/cli` too, instead of `npx <pkg>@latest`.\n\n### 3. Caching — what's already good, and one gap\n\n- `_harness.mjs:68-97` (`resolveMetaharnessBins`) memoizes bin resolution in a module-level `RESOLVED` var — correct pattern, reused across the 5 parallel calls in one `oia-audit` run.\n- The gap is #2 above: that pattern isn't extended to the `@claude-flow/cli` memory subprocess (each memory call independently re-resolves via `npx`).\n\n### 4. Redundant computation (minor)\n\n`audit-list.mjs`, `audit-trend.mjs`, and `drift-from-history.mjs` each hand-roll their own `/\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout)` JSON-extraction instead of importing the already-shared, more-correct `parseTrailingJson()` from `_invoke.mjs` (which grabs the *last* JSON block — the ad-hoc greedy regex can misfire if stdout contains other braces before the payload). Not a hot-path cost at CLI-output scale, but worth consolidating for correctness as well as avoiding copy-pasted logic.\n\n### 5. Memory leaks — none found\n\nBoth `setTimeout` usages (`_harness.mjs:149`, `_darwin.mjs:144`) are correctly paired with `clearTimeout` in every exit path (`close`/`error`). No dangling `setInterval`, no unremoved listeners — expected for one-shot CLI processes that exit after `main()`.\n\n### 6. React re-renders / DB N+1 — not applicable\n\nNo React, no JSX, no ORM/SQL in this plugin — it's pure CLI orchestration. The closest structural analog to a classic N+1 SQL query is finding #1 above, which I'd treat as the highest-priority fix here.\n\n---\n\n**Priority order:** #1 (N+1 subprocess loop) → #2 (`@latest` resolution) → #4 (DRY parsing) → #3 is already fine, #5/#6 no action needed.\n",
+  "parsedOutput": {
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+      {
+        "title": "Performance Analysis — `plugins/ruflo-metaharness`",
+        "content": "\nThis is a Node.js CLI plugin (~7,000 lines across 32 `.mjs` scripts) that shells out to sibling packages (`metaharness`, `harness`, `@claude-flow/cli`). There's no React, no database ORM, so I've mapped your checklist onto what's actually here: the CLI-shaped analogs of those problems.\n\n",
+        "level": 2
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "1. N+1 pattern — `audit-list.mjs:103-117` (real, high impact)",
+        "content": "\n```js\n// 1 call: list all keys\nconst entries = memList()...  // npx @claude-flow/cli@latest memory list\n\n// N calls: one subprocess spawn PER record\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // separate npx spawn per key!\n  ...\n}\n```\n\nThis is the textbook N+1 shape: 1 \"list\" + N \"get by id\" round trips that should be one batched fetch. It's not cosmetic here — `drift-from-history.mjs`'s own comments (iters 66/67) document that this exact `memory list`/`retrieve` path pays a **~25s ONNX warmup per subprocess spawn**, which is *why* they added `--baseline-key`/`--baseline-file` fast paths to skip it entirely for the single-record case. But `audit-list.mjs` still does this in a loop — with the default `--limit 50` used by `drift-from-history.mjs`, that's up to **51 sequential ~25s cold-starts (~20+ minutes)**.\n\n**Fix** — this codebase already has the parallelization idiom for exactly this problem (`oia-audit.mjs`'s `runAllParallel`, iter 56). Apply it here:\n\n```js\nimport { spawn } from 'node:child_process';\n\nfunction memRetrieveAsync(key) {\n  return new Promise((resolve) => {\n    const p = spawn('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', '--namespace', NS, '--key', key],\n      { stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });\n    let stdout = '';\n    p.stdout.on('data', d => stdout += d);\n    p.on('close', () => {\n      const m = /\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout);\n      resolve(m ? tryParse(m[0]) : null);\n    });\n  });\n}\n// replace the for-loop with:\nconst rows = (await Promise.all(slice.map(memRetrieveAsync))).filter(Boolean);\n```\nDrops wall-clock from `sum(N × cold-start)` to `max(cold-start)` — same win they already banked for `oia-audit`'s 5 calls.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "2. `npx pkg@latest` per call — registry hit on every invocation (real, medium-high impact)",
+        "content": "\n`_harness.mjs`'s header comment explicitly documents fixing this exact anti-pattern for the `metaharness` package (pinned version + local `node_modules` resolution + one-time versioned cache install, via the reusable `findLocalPackageDir`/`ensureCachedInstall` helpers in `_invoke.mjs`). But the fix was never applied to the **`@claude-flow/cli` memory calls**, which still default to `@latest`:\n\n```\naudit-list.mjs:24    CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\naudit-trend.mjs:41   CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\noia-audit.mjs:38     CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\nsimilarity.mjs       CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\n```\n\nEvery `memory store`/`list`/`retrieve` call pays npx's dist-tag resolution plus a full cold start of a large CLI package — on top of the N+1 problem above, this compounds it. **Fix:** reuse `findLocalPackageDir(pkg, pinVersion)` + `ensureCachedInstall(...)` from `_invoke.mjs` (already generic, already imported elsewhere) for `@claude-flow/cli` too, instead of `npx <pkg>@latest`.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "3. Caching — what's already good, and one gap",
+        "content": "\n- `_harness.mjs:68-97` (`resolveMetaharnessBins`) memoizes bin resolution in a module-level `RESOLVED` var — correct pattern, reused across the 5 parallel calls in one `oia-audit` run.\n- The gap is #2 above: that pattern isn't extended to the `@claude-flow/cli` memory subprocess (each memory call independently re-resolves via `npx`).\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "4. Redundant computation (minor)",
+        "content": "\n`audit-list.mjs`, `audit-trend.mjs`, and `drift-from-history.mjs` each hand-roll their own `/\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout)` JSON-extraction instead of importing the already-shared, more-correct `parseTrailingJson()` from `_invoke.mjs` (which grabs the *last* JSON block — the ad-hoc greedy regex can misfire if stdout contains other braces before the payload). Not a hot-path cost at CLI-output scale, but worth consolidating for correctness as well as avoiding copy-pasted logic.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "5. Memory leaks — none found",
+        "content": "\nBoth `setTimeout` usages (`_harness.mjs:149`, `_darwin.mjs:144`) are correctly paired with `clearTimeout` in every exit path (`close`/`error`). No dangling `setInterval`, no unremoved listeners — expected for one-shot CLI processes that exit after `main()`.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "6. React re-renders / DB N+1 — not applicable",
+        "content": "No React, no JSX, no ORM/SQL in this plugin — it's pure CLI orchestration. The closest structural analog to a classic N+1 SQL query is finding #1 above, which I'd treat as the highest-priority fix here.\n\n---\n\n**Priority order:** #1 (N+1 subprocess loop) → #2 (`@latest` resolution) → #4 (DRY parsing) → #3 is already fine, #5/#6 no action needed.",
+        "level": 3
+      }
+    ],
+    "codeBlocks": [
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "// 1 call: list all keys\nconst entries = memList()...  // npx @claude-flow/cli@latest memory list\n\n// N calls: one subprocess spawn PER record\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // separate npx spawn per key!\n  ...\n}"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';\n\nfunction memRetrieveAsync(key) {\n  return new Promise((resolve) => {\n    const p = spawn('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', '--namespace', NS, '--key', key],\n      { stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });\n    let stdout = '';\n    p.stdout.on('data', d => stdout += d);\n    p.on('close', () => {\n      const m = /\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout);\n      resolve(m ? tryParse(m[0]) : null);\n    });\n  });\n}\n// replace the for-loop with:\nconst rows = (await Promise.all(slice.map(memRetrieveAsync))).filter(Boolean);"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "text",
+        "code": "audit-list.mjs:24    CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\naudit-trend.mjs:41   CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\noia-audit.mjs:38     CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'\nsimilarity.mjs       CLI_PKG = ... : '@claude-flow/cli@latest'"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "durationMs": 190387,
+  "model": "sonnet",
+  "sandboxMode": "permissive",
+  "workerType": "optimize",
+  "timestamp": "2026-07-09T17:43:27.730Z",
+  "executionId": "optimize_1783618817343_r1lbhr"
+}

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+[2026-07-09T17:58:27.773Z] PROMPT
+============================================================
+Analyze this codebase for performance optimizations:
+- Identify N+1 query patterns
+- Find unnecessary re-renders in React
+- Suggest caching opportunities
+- Identify memory leaks
+- Find redundant computations
+
+Provide actionable suggestions with code examples.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Analyze the codebase and provide your response following the format specified in the task.

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+[2026-07-09T18:01:49.292Z] RESULT
+============================================================
+{
+  "success": true,
+  "output": "## Performance Analysis — `plugins/ruflo-metaharness`\n\nScope note up front: this plugin is a Node.js CLI/subprocess-orchestration codebase (32 `.mjs` scripts, no React, no direct DB layer), so I've translated your checklist to what actually applies here:\n- \"N+1 queries\" → repeated subprocess spawns that could be batched/parallelized\n- \"React re-renders\" → n/a, no UI code\n- Caching → subprocess/binary resolution caching\n- Memory leaks → listener/timer lifecycle in long-running subprocess wrappers\n- Redundant computation → repeated work that's already been computed elsewhere in the same run\n\nThe codebase is already unusually perf-conscious (comments reference iter 27, 47, 56, 58, 62–67, 78, 96 — multiple rounds of tuning), so I focused on gaps that survived those passes.\n\n### 1. N+1 subprocess pattern — `audit-list.mjs` (highest impact)\n\n`scripts/audit-list.mjs:82-117`: one `memory list` call, then a **sequential, blocking `spawnSync`** per matched record:\n\n```js\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // separate `npx @claude-flow/cli@latest memory retrieve` per key\n  ...\n}\n```\n\nWith the default `--limit 20` (or `--limit 50`, which `drift-from-history.mjs` passes internally), that's up to 50 sequential subprocess spawns. Per this repo's own measurements (`scripts/test-mcp-tools.mjs:176-179`), each `npx @claude-flow/cli@latest` call pays a full CLI startup that loads agentic-flow + ONNX — ~4s locally, up to 180s in CI cold-cache. Serially, that's minutes for one `audit-list` call.\n\nThe fix pattern already exists in this same codebase — `_harness.mjs`'s `execBinAsync` (used by `oia-audit.mjs` to parallelize 5 calls) and `drift-from-history.mjs`'s `runScriptJsonAsync`. Apply the same shape here:\n\n```js\nfunction memRetrieveAsync(key) {\n  return new Promise((resolve) => {\n    const p = spawn('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', '--namespace', NS, '--key', key], { stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });\n    let stdout = '';\n    p.stdout?.on('data', (d) => { stdout += d; });\n    p.on('close', () => {\n      const m = /\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout);\n      resolve(m ? safeParse(m[0]) : null);\n    });\n  });\n}\n// ...\nconst rows = (await Promise.all(slice.map(memRetrieveAsync))).filter(Boolean).map(toRow);\n```\n\nThis is directly evidenced by the codebase's own workaround: `drift-from-history.mjs:162-164` explicitly *skips* `audit-list` when `--baseline-key` is given because it's \"~25s of ONNX warmup\" — the workaround treats the symptom instead of fixing the root N+1 loop.\n\n### 2. Sequential where independent — `audit-trend.mjs`\n\n`scripts/audit-trend.mjs:100-101`:\n```js\nconst baseline = loadRecord('baseline', ARGS.baseline, ARGS.baselineKey);\nconst current  = loadRecord('current',  ARGS.current,  ARGS.currentKey);\n```\nWhen both resolve via `--*-key` (memory lookup, not `--*-file`), these are two independent `npx ... memory retrieve` calls run back-to-back. `drift-from-history.mjs` already proves the pattern (`Promise.all`-style overlap saves \"2-5s off every drift check\" at `drift-from-history.mjs:126-129`) — the same overlap should apply here for a ~2x reduction in this step's wall-clock.\n\n### 3. Unpinned `@latest` resolution on every CLI call\n\n`audit-list.mjs`, `audit-trend.mjs`, `oia-audit.mjs`, `drift-from-history.mjs` all resolve:\n```js\nconst CLI_PKG = process.env.CLI_CORE === '1' ? '@claude-flow/cli-core@alpha' : '@claude-flow/cli@latest';\n```\nEvery `spawnSync('npx', [CLI_PKG, ...])` call re-resolves the `@latest` dist-tag. This is the *exact* anti-pattern `_harness.mjs`'s own header comment (lines 21-35) documents as fixed for the `metaharness`/`harness` binaries — pin the version, resolve a local `node_modules` copy first (`findLocalPackageDir`), fall back to a one-time versioned cache install (`ensureCachedInstall`), then invoke `node <path>` directly with zero network after the first call. That machinery already lives in `_invoke.mjs` and is unused by these four scripts for the `@claude-flow/cli` calls. Applying it here is the single biggest win available (it's what turns \"180s in CI\" into \"sub-second after first resolution\").\n\n### 4. `_darwin.mjs` never adopted the family's own fix\n\n`scripts/_darwin.mjs:80` and `:125` — both `runDarwin` and `runDarwinAsync` still shell out via:\n```js\nspawnSync('npx', ['-y', '-p', DARWIN_PIN, 'metaharness-darwin', ...argv], ...)\n```\nThis is precisely the pattern `_redblue.mjs` and `_harness.mjs` moved away from (see `_redblue.mjs:1-33`, which documents the `npx -y` → cached-`node`-direct migration and why). `_darwin.mjs` already imports `importOptionalLibrary` from `_invoke.mjs` for its `importGepa()` library path but not for the CLI-invocation path. Since `evolve`/`bench`/`security bench` are the most expensive, longest-running commands in the plugin, paying an `npx` registry round-trip on every invocation (called from CI on every PR touching this plugin, per `metaharness-ci.yml`) is the most consequential unfixed instance of this pattern.\n\n### 5. Minor — dangling `AbortSignal` listener\n\n`_darwin.mjs:148-152`:\n```js\nif (opts.signal) {\n  opts.signal.addEventListener('abort', () => { try { p.kill('SIGTERM'); } catch {} }, { once: true });\n}\n```\n`{ once: true }` self-removes on fire, but if the run completes normally (no abort), the listener stays attached to the caller's `AbortSignal` for that signal's lifetime. Low severity today (signals appear to be created per-call), but if any future caller reuses one long-lived `AbortController` across many `runDarwinAsync` calls (e.g. an evolve-loop driver), listeners will accumulate. Cheap fix: pass `{ signal: opts.signal }` directly into `spawn()`'s options instead of manually wiring an abort listener — Node's `child_process.spawn` supports an `signal` option natively and handles cleanup for you.\n\n### What's already good (don't touch)\n- `_harness.mjs`'s `RESOLVED` memoization of bin paths per process — correct, avoids re-walking `node_modules` on every call within one script run.\n- `oia-audit.mjs` already parallelizes its 5 metaharness/harness subcommand calls (`runHarnessAsync`/`runMetaharnessAsync`) — good precedent to replicate for #1/#2 above.\n- `drift-from-history.mjs`'s `--baseline-key`/`--baseline-file` fast paths and `Promise`-based overlap of `audit-list` + `oia-audit` — solid engineering, just currently compensating for #1 rather than fixing it.\n- `_similarity.mjs` — fixed 9-dimensional vectors, no scaling concern regardless of input size.\n\n**Priority order**: #1 and #3 compound (audit-list's N retrieves each pay the `@latest` tax) — fixing #3's pinning/caching first cuts audit-list's cost by the CLI-startup factor even before parallelizing; then #1's parallelization cuts the remaining serial wait by up to N×. #4 is the next highest-leverage fix since it hits every `evolve`/`bench` CI run.\n",
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+      {
+        "title": "Performance Analysis — `plugins/ruflo-metaharness`",
+        "content": "\nScope note up front: this plugin is a Node.js CLI/subprocess-orchestration codebase (32 `.mjs` scripts, no React, no direct DB layer), so I've translated your checklist to what actually applies here:\n- \"N+1 queries\" → repeated subprocess spawns that could be batched/parallelized\n- \"React re-renders\" → n/a, no UI code\n- Caching → subprocess/binary resolution caching\n- Memory leaks → listener/timer lifecycle in long-running subprocess wrappers\n- Redundant computation → repeated work that's already been computed elsewhere in the same run\n\nThe codebase is already unusually perf-conscious (comments reference iter 27, 47, 56, 58, 62–67, 78, 96 — multiple rounds of tuning), so I focused on gaps that survived those passes.\n\n",
+        "level": 2
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "1. N+1 subprocess pattern — `audit-list.mjs` (highest impact)",
+        "content": "\n`scripts/audit-list.mjs:82-117`: one `memory list` call, then a **sequential, blocking `spawnSync`** per matched record:\n\n```js\nfor (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // separate `npx @claude-flow/cli@latest memory retrieve` per key\n  ...\n}\n```\n\nWith the default `--limit 20` (or `--limit 50`, which `drift-from-history.mjs` passes internally), that's up to 50 sequential subprocess spawns. Per this repo's own measurements (`scripts/test-mcp-tools.mjs:176-179`), each `npx @claude-flow/cli@latest` call pays a full CLI startup that loads agentic-flow + ONNX — ~4s locally, up to 180s in CI cold-cache. Serially, that's minutes for one `audit-list` call.\n\nThe fix pattern already exists in this same codebase — `_harness.mjs`'s `execBinAsync` (used by `oia-audit.mjs` to parallelize 5 calls) and `drift-from-history.mjs`'s `runScriptJsonAsync`. Apply the same shape here:\n\n```js\nfunction memRetrieveAsync(key) {\n  return new Promise((resolve) => {\n    const p = spawn('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', '--namespace', NS, '--key', key], { stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });\n    let stdout = '';\n    p.stdout?.on('data', (d) => { stdout += d; });\n    p.on('close', () => {\n      const m = /\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout);\n      resolve(m ? safeParse(m[0]) : null);\n    });\n  });\n}\n// ...\nconst rows = (await Promise.all(slice.map(memRetrieveAsync))).filter(Boolean).map(toRow);\n```\n\nThis is directly evidenced by the codebase's own workaround: `drift-from-history.mjs:162-164` explicitly *skips* `audit-list` when `--baseline-key` is given because it's \"~25s of ONNX warmup\" — the workaround treats the symptom instead of fixing the root N+1 loop.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "2. Sequential where independent — `audit-trend.mjs`",
+        "content": "\n`scripts/audit-trend.mjs:100-101`:\n```js\nconst baseline = loadRecord('baseline', ARGS.baseline, ARGS.baselineKey);\nconst current  = loadRecord('current',  ARGS.current,  ARGS.currentKey);\n```\nWhen both resolve via `--*-key` (memory lookup, not `--*-file`), these are two independent `npx ... memory retrieve` calls run back-to-back. `drift-from-history.mjs` already proves the pattern (`Promise.all`-style overlap saves \"2-5s off every drift check\" at `drift-from-history.mjs:126-129`) — the same overlap should apply here for a ~2x reduction in this step's wall-clock.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "3. Unpinned `@latest` resolution on every CLI call",
+        "content": "\n`audit-list.mjs`, `audit-trend.mjs`, `oia-audit.mjs`, `drift-from-history.mjs` all resolve:\n```js\nconst CLI_PKG = process.env.CLI_CORE === '1' ? '@claude-flow/cli-core@alpha' : '@claude-flow/cli@latest';\n```\nEvery `spawnSync('npx', [CLI_PKG, ...])` call re-resolves the `@latest` dist-tag. This is the *exact* anti-pattern `_harness.mjs`'s own header comment (lines 21-35) documents as fixed for the `metaharness`/`harness` binaries — pin the version, resolve a local `node_modules` copy first (`findLocalPackageDir`), fall back to a one-time versioned cache install (`ensureCachedInstall`), then invoke `node <path>` directly with zero network after the first call. That machinery already lives in `_invoke.mjs` and is unused by these four scripts for the `@claude-flow/cli` calls. Applying it here is the single biggest win available (it's what turns \"180s in CI\" into \"sub-second after first resolution\").\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "4. `_darwin.mjs` never adopted the family's own fix",
+        "content": "\n`scripts/_darwin.mjs:80` and `:125` — both `runDarwin` and `runDarwinAsync` still shell out via:\n```js\nspawnSync('npx', ['-y', '-p', DARWIN_PIN, 'metaharness-darwin', ...argv], ...)\n```\nThis is precisely the pattern `_redblue.mjs` and `_harness.mjs` moved away from (see `_redblue.mjs:1-33`, which documents the `npx -y` → cached-`node`-direct migration and why). `_darwin.mjs` already imports `importOptionalLibrary` from `_invoke.mjs` for its `importGepa()` library path but not for the CLI-invocation path. Since `evolve`/`bench`/`security bench` are the most expensive, longest-running commands in the plugin, paying an `npx` registry round-trip on every invocation (called from CI on every PR touching this plugin, per `metaharness-ci.yml`) is the most consequential unfixed instance of this pattern.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "5. Minor — dangling `AbortSignal` listener",
+        "content": "\n`_darwin.mjs:148-152`:\n```js\nif (opts.signal) {\n  opts.signal.addEventListener('abort', () => { try { p.kill('SIGTERM'); } catch {} }, { once: true });\n}\n```\n`{ once: true }` self-removes on fire, but if the run completes normally (no abort), the listener stays attached to the caller's `AbortSignal` for that signal's lifetime. Low severity today (signals appear to be created per-call), but if any future caller reuses one long-lived `AbortController` across many `runDarwinAsync` calls (e.g. an evolve-loop driver), listeners will accumulate. Cheap fix: pass `{ signal: opts.signal }` directly into `spawn()`'s options instead of manually wiring an abort listener — Node's `child_process.spawn` supports an `signal` option natively and handles cleanup for you.\n\n",
+        "level": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "title": "What's already good (don't touch)",
+        "content": "- `_harness.mjs`'s `RESOLVED` memoization of bin paths per process — correct, avoids re-walking `node_modules` on every call within one script run.\n- `oia-audit.mjs` already parallelizes its 5 metaharness/harness subcommand calls (`runHarnessAsync`/`runMetaharnessAsync`) — good precedent to replicate for #1/#2 above.\n- `drift-from-history.mjs`'s `--baseline-key`/`--baseline-file` fast paths and `Promise`-based overlap of `audit-list` + `oia-audit` — solid engineering, just currently compensating for #1 rather than fixing it.\n- `_similarity.mjs` — fixed 9-dimensional vectors, no scaling concern regardless of input size.\n\n**Priority order**: #1 and #3 compound (audit-list's N retrieves each pay the `@latest` tax) — fixing #3's pinning/caching first cuts audit-list's cost by the CLI-startup factor even before parallelizing; then #1's parallelization cuts the remaining serial wait by up to N×. #4 is the next highest-leverage fix since it hits every `evolve`/`bench` CI run.",
+        "level": 3
+      }
+    ],
+    "codeBlocks": [
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "for (const key of slice) {\n  const rec = memRetrieve(key);   // separate `npx @claude-flow/cli@latest memory retrieve` per key\n  ...\n}"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "function memRetrieveAsync(key) {\n  return new Promise((resolve) => {\n    const p = spawn('npx', [CLI_PKG, 'memory', 'retrieve', '--namespace', NS, '--key', key], { stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });\n    let stdout = '';\n    p.stdout?.on('data', (d) => { stdout += d; });\n    p.on('close', () => {\n      const m = /\\{[\\s\\S]*\\}/.exec(stdout);\n      resolve(m ? safeParse(m[0]) : null);\n    });\n  });\n}\n// ...\nconst rows = (await Promise.all(slice.map(memRetrieveAsync))).filter(Boolean).map(toRow);"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "const baseline = loadRecord('baseline', ARGS.baseline, ARGS.baselineKey);\nconst current  = loadRecord('current',  ARGS.current,  ARGS.currentKey);"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "const CLI_PKG = process.env.CLI_CORE === '1' ? '@claude-flow/cli-core@alpha' : '@claude-flow/cli@latest';"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "spawnSync('npx', ['-y', '-p', DARWIN_PIN, 'metaharness-darwin', ...argv], ...)"
+      },
+      {
+        "language": "js",
+        "code": "if (opts.signal) {\n  opts.signal.addEventListener('abort', () => { try { p.kill('SIGTERM'); } catch {} }, { once: true });\n}"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "durationMs": 201519,
+  "model": "sonnet",
+  "sandboxMode": "permissive",
+  "workerType": "optimize",
+  "timestamp": "2026-07-09T18:01:49.292Z",
+  "executionId": "optimize_1783619907773_8msfw3"
+}