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title: "Instruments Profiling (macOS/iOS) - Air Market"
description: "Your Mac or iPhone app feels wrong and you want numbers rather than hunches. This records a trace while the app runs and gets the results back out so you can look at them. Reach for it when you are r…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/instruments-profiling"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Instruments Profiling (macOS/iOS)

Skill by [Peter Steinberger](/@steipete)

# Instruments Profiling (macOS/iOS)

Measure a Mac or iPhone app instead of guessing at it

## What this does

Your Mac or iPhone app feels wrong and you want numbers rather than hunches. This records a trace while the app runs and gets the results back out so you can look at them. Reach for it when you are ready to measure something instead of guessing.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Record a trace of a macOS or iOS app
- Launch a binary with the arguments you need
- Pull the data out of a trace

## Information

**Instruments Profiling (macOS/iOS) at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Peter Steinberger](/@steipete) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 4 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [steipete/agent-scripts](https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts/tree/5dc3c2435ba70f39a7fd022a80bf12c5c2b6b0c5/skills/instruments-profiling) |
| GitHub stars | 6,562 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 239, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Instruments Profiling (macOS/iOS) and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Instruments Profiling (macOS/iOS)'s check was run against**

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| --- | --- |
| Commit | 5dc3c2435ba70f39a7fd022a80bf12c5c2b6b0c5 |
| Content hash | 592c492411a28385a01704e1596e094a6090d94f89eb0677dd72b30fac23b38e |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts/blob/5dc3c2435ba70f39a7fd022a80bf12c5c2b6b0c5/skills/instruments-profiling/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Instruments Profiling (macOS/iOS)](/security/instruments-profiling)

## About Instruments Profiling (macOS/iOS)

Profiling for macOS and iOS apps using Instruments and xctrace. It covers recording traces against a binary, including passing the arguments the run needs.

It also covers getting data back out of a trace once it has been recorded.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Instruments Profiling (macOS/iOS) safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Instruments Profiling (macOS/iOS) and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 5dc3c2435ba7, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/instruments-profiling.

### How do I install Instruments Profiling (macOS/iOS)?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/instruments-profiling on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts/tree/5dc3c2435ba70f39a7fd022a80bf12c5c2b6b0c5/skills/instruments-profiling. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Peter Steinberger](/@steipete)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/instruments-profiling>