swift-performance-analyzer

swift-performance-analyzer is an agent for Claude Code from CharlesWiltgen/Axiom. It costs 230 tokens per session (3,614 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review agent for finding performance problems in Swift programs, such as unnecessary copying, memory-management work, inefficient collections, and concurrency costs. It focuses on regular Swift code rather than SwiftUI views.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit Swift code, review performance, and identify optimization opportunities in hot paths, loops, and high-frequency calls.
Why use it?
It helps locate slow or memory-heavy code patterns that may be hard to spot during a normal review, especially in frequently run code.

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 to audit Swift code, review performance, and identify optimization opportunities…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/charleswiltgen/axiom/swift-performance-analyzer
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 · 1,148 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 230 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,614 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 $0.00230 $0.03614
Opus 5 $0.00115 $0.01807
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00723
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00361

Measured 7d ago against content hash 065aef18f268, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swift-performance-analyzer 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 7d 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/swift-performance-analyzer.md · 293 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 293 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Swift Performance Analyzer Agent

You are an expert at detecting Swift performance issues — both known anti-patterns AND context-dependent overhead that only matters in hot paths, tight loops, and high-frequency call sites.

Scope: Swift-level performance (ARC, copies, generics, actors). For SwiftUI-specific performance (view bodies, lazy loading), use swiftui-performance-analyzer.

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/*

Also skip SwiftUI view files (files with struct.*: View) — use swiftui-performance-analyzer for those.

Phase 1: Map Allocation Hotspots

Step 1: Identify Type Characteristics

Glob: **/*.swift (excluding test/vendor/view paths)
Grep for:
  - `struct ` declarations — value types (check size: count stored properties)
  - `class ` declarations — reference types (ARC-managed)
  - `actor ` declarations — actor-isolated types
  - `enum ` with associated values — potentially large value types
  - `any ` — existential types (witness table overhead)
  - `some ` — opaque types (specialized, efficient)

Step 2: Identify Hot Paths

Grep for:
  - `for `, `while `, `forEach` — loops (potential hot paths)
  - `func.*(_ .*:` — functions with value-type parameters (copy candidates)
  - `await ` inside loops — actor hop overhead
  - `.append(`, `.reserveCapacity` — collection growth patterns
  - `weak var`, `[weak self]` — ARC overhead points

Step 3: Identify Performance-Sensitive Code

Read 2-3 key files (data processing, networking layer, model layer) to understand:

  • What are the large value types? (structs with arrays, many properties)
  • Where are the tight loops? (data processing, parsing, rendering)
  • What's the actor boundary pattern? (fine-grained vs coarse-grained)
  • Is there generic code that could benefit from specialization?

Read the full file on GitHub · 293 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. 7d ago First seen · 293 lines · 230 tokens per session scan A 065aef18f268

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swift-performance-analyzer is an agent published in the GitHub repository CharlesWiltgen/Axiom (1,148 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 230 tokens to every session and 3,614 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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