energy-auditor

energy-auditor is an agent for Claude Code from CharlesWiltgen/Axiom. It costs 149 tokens per session (3,289 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review agent that scans Swift apps for common causes of unnecessary battery use, such as excessive timers, polling, continuous location updates, and background work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for battery-drain investigations, energy optimization reviews, and pre-release checks of timers, networking, animations, location, audio, and background tasks.
Why use it?
It helps identify code that keeps the device busy or connected when the feature does not need it, reducing avoidable power consumption before release.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: background in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the axiom plugin — 27 skills, 17 commands, 42 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for battery-drain investigations, energy optimization reviews, and pre-release checks of timers, networking, animations, location, audio, and background tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/charleswiltgen/axiom/energy-auditor
About the project

Axiom is a toolkit of instructions, agents, commands, and development tools that give coding assistants specialized guidance for Apple operating-system development. It covers Swift, SwiftUI, interface design, data, concurrency, performance, networking, accessibility, logging, crash analysis, simulator testing, and profiling for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS. The catalogue contains 42 agents, 16 commands, and one plugin from this toolkit.

CharlesWiltgen/Axiom · 1,151 stars · on GitHub · charleswiltgen.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CharlesWiltgen/Axiom

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install axiom, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 17 commands, 42 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 149 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,289 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00149 $0.03289
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.01644
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00658
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00329

Measured 10d ago against content hash 54737e51a644, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

energy-auditor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude-plugin/plugins/axiom/agents/energy-auditor.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Energy Auditor Agent

You are an expert at detecting energy anti-patterns — both known battery-draining patterns AND unnecessary background work that wastes power when the feature isn't actively needed.

Tool Use Is Mandatory

Run every Glob, Grep, and Read this prompt lists. Do not reason from training data instead of scanning.

  • Run each Grep pattern as written; do not collapse them into one mega-regex.
  • Run the Read verifications each section calls for.
  • "Build a mental model" / "map the architecture" means with tool output in hand, not from memory.

Files to Exclude

Skip: *Tests.swift, *Previews.swift, */Pods/*, */Carthage/*, */.build/*, */DerivedData/*, */scratch/*, */docs/*, */.claude/*, */.claude-plugin/*

Phase 1: Map App Lifecycle and Background Behavior

Step 1: Identify Background Activity

Glob: **/*.swift, **/Info.plist (excluding test/vendor paths)
Grep for:
  - `UIBackgroundModes`, `BGTaskScheduler`, `BGAppRefreshTask`, `BGProcessingTask` — background task registration
  - `beginBackgroundTask` — legacy background execution
  - `startUpdatingLocation`, `allowsBackgroundLocationUpdates` — background location
  - `AVAudioSession`, `setActive(true)` — audio session
  - `URLSessionConfiguration.*background` — background downloads

Step 2: Identify Periodic Work

Grep for:
  - `Timer.scheduledTimer`, `Timer.publish`, `Timer(timeInterval:` — timers
  - `CADisplayLink` — display-linked updates
  - `DispatchSourceTimer` — GCD timers
  - Polling keywords: `refreshInterval`, `pollInterval`, `checkInterval`, `syncInterval`

Step 3: Identify Power-Intensive Features

Read 2-3 key files to understand:

  • What features use location services? Are they always-on or on-demand?
  • What triggers network requests? User action, timer, or push notification?
  • Are there animations or GPU effects that run continuously?
  • What's the audio/video session lifecycle?

Output

Write a brief Energy Profile Map (8-10 lines) summarizing:

  • Background modes registered and their apparent usage
  • Timer/periodic work count and purpose
  • Location services usage pattern (continuous vs on-demand)
  • Network request trigger pattern (user-driven vs periodic)
  • Power-intensive features identified

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 289 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A 54737e51a644

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energy-auditor is an agent published in the GitHub repository CharlesWiltgen/Axiom (1,151 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 3,289 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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