Phase 2: Add build steps and performance measurement infrastructure

.github/actions/daily-perf-improver/build-steps/action.yml

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+name: 'Build Steps for Performance Testing'
+description: 'Sets up the environment and validates build for performance testing'
+
+runs:
+  using: 'composite'
+  steps:
+    - name: Set up Python
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      with:
+        python-version: '3.13'
+        cache: 'pip'
+
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        echo "=== Installing dependencies ===" | tee -a build-steps.log
+        pip install httpx python-dotenv 2>&1 | tee -a build-steps.log
+        echo "✓ Dependencies installed" | tee -a build-steps.log
+
+    - name: Install dev dependencies for testing
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        echo "=== Installing dev dependencies ===" | tee -a build-steps.log
+        pip install pytest pytest-mock memory_profiler 2>&1 | tee -a build-steps.log
+        echo "✓ Dev dependencies installed" | tee -a build-steps.log
+
+    - name: Verify installation
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        echo "=== Verifying Python environment ===" | tee -a build-steps.log
+        python --version 2>&1 | tee -a build-steps.log
+        pip list 2>&1 | tee -a build-steps.log
+        echo "✓ Environment verified" | tee -a build-steps.log
+
+    - name: Validate main module
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        echo "=== Validating main module ===" | tee -a build-steps.log
+        python -c "import main; print('✓ main.py imports successfully')" 2>&1 | tee -a build-steps.log
+
+    - name: Run test suite
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        echo "=== Running test suite ===" | tee -a build-steps.log
+        pytest tests/ -v 2>&1 | tee -a build-steps.log
+        echo "✓ Tests completed" | tee -a build-steps.log
+      # Allow build to continue even with test failures so the agent can analyze
+      # failures and attempt fixes. The agent checks build-steps.log for issues.
+      continue-on-error: true
+
+    - name: Summary
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        echo "=== Build steps summary ===" | tee -a build-steps.log
+        echo "Environment is ready for performance testing" | tee -a build-steps.log
+        echo "See build-steps.log for complete output" | tee -a build-steps.log

.gitignore

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 # Generated artifacts
 plan.json
+build-steps.log

PERFORMANCE.md

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+# Performance Engineering Guide
+
+This guide documents performance measurement, optimization strategies, and known characteristics for ctrld-sync. Use this to understand how to measure, improve, and maintain performance.
+
+> **Note:** This guide is intentionally placed in the repository root rather than `.github/copilot/instructions/` for better visibility and maintainability. Performance documentation benefits from being easily discoverable by all developers, not just those working with Copilot workflows. A single consolidated guide is more maintainable for a project of this size than multiple separate files.
+
+---
+
+## Current Performance Characteristics
+
+### Architecture
+- **Thread-based parallelization** with `ThreadPoolExecutor`:
+  - Folder URL fetching (concurrent)
+  - Folder deletion (3 workers)
+  - Rule batch pushing (3 workers)
+  - Existing rule fetching (5 workers)
+- **Connection pooling** via `httpx.Client` reuse
+- **Smart optimizations**:
+  - Skips validation for rules already in existing set
+  - Bypasses ThreadPoolExecutor for single batches (<500 rules)
+  - Pre-compiled regex patterns at module level
+  - Ordered deduplication using `dict.fromkeys()`
+
+### Known Constraints
+**CRITICAL:** Thread pool sizing (3-5 workers) is constrained by Control D API rate limits, NOT throughput optimization. Increasing worker counts risks 429 (Too Many Requests) errors. Always profile API call patterns before tuning concurrency.
+
+### Typical Performance
+- **Small workloads** (10-20 folders, <10k rules): ~30-60 seconds
+- **Large workloads** (50+ folders, 50k+ rules): ~2-5 minutes
+- **Bottleneck:** Network I/O to Control D API (not CPU)
+
+---
+
+## End-to-End Timing Instrumentation
+
+**Priority #1:** Measure wall-clock time before optimizing anything.
+
+### Quick Timing Decorator
+
+Add to `main.py` for function-level timing:
+
+```python
+import time
+from functools import wraps
+
+def timed(func):
+    """Decorator to measure and log execution time."""
+    @wraps(func)
+    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+        start = time.perf_counter()
+        result = func(*args, **kwargs)
+        elapsed = time.perf_counter() - start
+        log.info(f"⏱️  {func.__name__} completed in {elapsed:.2f}s")
+        return result
+    return wrapper
+```
+
+Usage:
+```python
+from typing import Any, Dict
+@timed
+def fetch_folder_data(url: str) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    # existing implementation
+```
+
+### Manual Timing for Workflow Stages
+
+For main sync workflow, add checkpoints (pseudocode showing the pattern):
+
+```python
+def example_sync_workflow():
+    """
+    Pseudocode example showing timing checkpoint pattern.
+    Adapt this to your actual workflow functions.
+    """
+    t0 = time.perf_counter()
+
+    # Stage 1: Fetch folders
+    t1 = time.perf_counter()
+    # Your actual folder fetching logic here
+    folder_data_list = []  # Results from concurrent futures
+    t2 = time.perf_counter()
+    log.info(f"⏱️  Fetched {len(folder_data_list)} folders in {t2-t1:.2f}s")
+
+    # Stage 2: Delete folders
+    # Your actual folder deletion logic here
+    t3 = time.perf_counter()
+    log.info(f"⏱️  Deleted folders in {t3-t2:.2f}s")
+
+    # Stage 3: Push rules
+    # Your actual rule pushing logic here
+    t4 = time.perf_counter()
+    log.info(f"⏱️  Pushed rules in {t4-t3:.2f}s")
+
+    log.info(f"⏱️  TOTAL sync time: {t4-t0:.2f}s")
+```
+
+**Why this matters:** Without baseline numbers, every optimization is a guess. Start here.
+
+---
+
+## API Call Tracking
+
+Track API calls as a first-class metric. Reducing calls is the fastest path to cutting sync time.
+
+### Instrumentation Pattern
+
+Add a call counter to your API wrapper:
+
+```python
+import threading
+
+class APICallTracker:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.calls = {"GET": 0, "POST": 0, "DELETE": 0}
+        self.lock = threading.Lock()
+
+    def record(self, method: str):
+        with self.lock:
+            self.calls[method] = self.calls.get(method, 0) + 1
+
+    def summary(self):
+        total = sum(self.calls.values())
+        return f"API calls: {total} total ({', '.join(f'{k}:{v}' for k, v in self.calls.items())})"
+
+# Global tracker
+api_tracker = APICallTracker()
+
+def _api_get(client, url, **kwargs):
+    api_tracker.record("GET")
+    # existing implementation
+
+# At end of sync:
+log.info(api_tracker.summary())
+```
+
+**Target metric:** Calls per 1,000 rules processed. Lower is better.
+
+---
+
+## Performance Testing
+
+### Existing Tests
+- `tests/test_push_rules_perf.py`: Validates ThreadPoolExecutor optimization for single vs. multi-batch
+
+### Adding Performance Benchmarks
+
+Create `tests/test_benchmarks.py`:
+
+```python
+import time
+import pytest
+from main import push_rules
+
+@pytest.mark.benchmark
+def test_push_rules_benchmark_10k():
+    """Benchmark pushing 10,000 rules."""
+    hostnames = [f"example{i}.com" for i in range(10_000)]
+
+    # Minimal example setup. In your real tests, reuse the fixtures/setup you use elsewhere,
+    # e.g. from tests like `test_push_rules_perf.py`.
+    profile_id = "benchmark-profile-id"
+    folder_name = "benchmark-folder"
+    folder_id = "benchmark-folder-id"
+
+    class DummyClient:
+        """
+        Placeholder HTTP client for benchmarking example.
+        Replace with your real client or test fixture that matches push_rules expectations.
+        """
+        pass
+
+    mock_client = DummyClient()
+
+    start = time.perf_counter()
+    push_rules(profile_id, folder_name, folder_id, 1, 1, hostnames, set(), mock_client)
+    elapsed = time.perf_counter() - start
+    # Fail if significantly slower than baseline (update threshold after establishing baseline)
+    assert elapsed < 30.0, f"10k rules took {elapsed:.2f}s (expected <30s)"
+```
+
+Run benchmarks: `pytest tests/test_benchmarks.py -v -m benchmark`
+
+### CI Performance Regression
+
+Keep it simple. Add to `.github/workflows/sync.yml`:
+
+```yaml
+- name: Performance smoke test
+  run: |
+    python - << 'PYCODE'
+    import time
+
+    start = time.perf_counter()
+
+    # TODO: Replace this with a real sync_profile(...) call for your project
+    # For example, you might trigger a sync with a synthetic 10k-rule profile.
+    # The sleep below is just a placeholder to keep this example runnable.
+    time.sleep(1)
+
+    elapsed = time.perf_counter() - start
+    if elapsed > 60:
+        raise Exception(f'Sync too slow: {elapsed:.2f}s')
+    print(f'✓ Performance OK: {elapsed:.2f}s')
+    PYCODE
+```
+
+**Goal:** Catch major regressions (>50% slower), not minor noise.
+
+---
+
+## Optimization Strategies
+
+### What to Profile First
+
+1. **Network I/O** (highest impact): API latency, connection pooling, batch sizes
+2. **Concurrency** (medium impact): Worker pool tuning (within rate limits!)
+3. **Validation logic** (low impact unless proven bottleneck): Regex, DNS lookups
+4. **Data structures** (lowest impact): Already optimized with `dict.fromkeys()` and sets
+
+**Don't optimize validation/batching micro-optimizations without profiling data showing they're the bottleneck.**
+
+### Profiling Commands
+
+CPU profiling:
+```bash
+python -m cProfile -o profile.stats main.py
+python -c "import pstats; p = pstats.Stats('profile.stats'); p.sort_stats('cumulative').print_stats(20)"
+```
+
+Memory profiling (for 50k+ rule scenarios):
+```bash
+python -m memory_profiler main.py
+```
+
+### Common Anti-Patterns
+
+❌ **Don't:** Increase thread pool workers without checking API rate limits
+✅ **Do:** Profile API call patterns and latency first
+
+❌ **Don't:** Optimize CPU-bound code when network I/O dominates
+✅ **Do:** Measure where time is actually spent (use `@timed` decorator)
+
+❌ **Don't:** Add caching without measuring cache hit rates
+✅ **Do:** Log cache effectiveness to validate the optimization
+
+---
+
+## Success Metrics
+
+### Primary Metrics
+- **End-to-end sync time** (wall clock): Establish baseline, then target meaningful reductions (e.g., 20%+) for typical workloads
+- **API calls per sync**: Track and minimize
+- **Memory footprint**: Maintain or reduce (especially for 50k+ rules)
+
+### Secondary Metrics
+- **Rules processed per second**: Throughput indicator
+- **Thread pool efficiency**: CPU utilization during parallel stages
+- **Cache hit rates**: Validation and DNS caching effectiveness
+
+### Performance Baseline Checklist
+
+Before claiming an improvement, establish:
+- [ ] Baseline timing for 10k, 20k, 50k rule sets
+- [ ] API call count for each scenario
+- [ ] Memory usage at peak (use `memory_profiler`)
+- [ ] Reproducible test environment (same network conditions, API endpoints)
+
+---
+
+## Quick Reference
+
+### Measure Performance
+```bash
+# Time a sync
+time python main.py
+
+# Profile CPU
+python -m cProfile -s cumulative main.py | head -30
+
+# Profile memory
+python -m memory_profiler main.py
+```
+
+### Run Performance Tests
+```bash
+# Existing optimization tests
+pytest tests/test_push_rules_perf.py -v
+
+# Benchmarks (once created)
+pytest tests/test_benchmarks.py -v -m benchmark
+```
+
+### Check for Regressions
+Compare timing logs before/after changes. Look for:
+- Increased total sync time (>10% = investigate)
+- Increased API call count (any increase = investigate)
+- Increased memory usage (for large rule sets)
+
+---
+
+## Next Steps
+
+1. **Add timing instrumentation** to `sync_profile()` and key functions
+2. **Establish baseline metrics** for 10k/20k/50k rule sets
+3. **Add API call tracking** to all `_api_*` wrappers
+4. **Create benchmark tests** for reproducible performance validation
+5. **Document findings** in this guide as you learn more
+
+Remember: **Measure twice, optimize once.** Always validate assumptions with data.