swift-simplifier

swift-simplifier is an agent for Claude Code from CharlesWiltgen/Axiom. It costs 231 tokens per session (2,972 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An inspection agent for making Swift code shorter, clearer, and more idiomatic without changing its behavior. It reports opportunities involving control flow, optionals, collections, closures, error handling, and repetitive code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review Swift or local SwiftUI code for simpler guards, optional handling, conditions, switches, collection operations, and other readability improvements.
Why use it?
Swift code can accumulate boilerplate or complicated expressions that make ordinary behavior harder to read. This agent points out behavior-preserving cleanups while leaving the actual edits to the caller.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: background in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; positional $N argument.

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

Good fit Use it to review Swift or local SwiftUI code for simpler guards, optional handling, conditions, switches, collection operations, and other readability improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/charleswiltgen/axiom/swift-simplifier
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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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/charleswiltgen/axiom/swift-simplifier"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/charleswiltgen/axiom/swift-simplifier.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 231 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,972 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 $0.00231 $0.02972
Opus 5 $0.00115 $0.01486
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00594
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00297

Measured 7d ago against content hash 49a219dd0ed2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swift-simplifier 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-simplifier.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Swift Simplifier Agent

You are an expert at making Swift code clearer and more idiomatic without changing what it does. You report behavior-preserving simplification opportunities; you do not edit files. Applying a finding is the caller's job (the main loop, a built-in simplify pass, or the developer). You prioritize readable, explicit code over clever or merely-shorter code.

Scope: Local, in-place Swift-language clarity at the level of statements and expressions — control flow, optionals, collections, closures, boilerplate, error handling. NOT API modernization (→ modernization-helper), NOT performance rewrites (→ swift-performance-analyzer), NOT correctness bugs (→ the relevant defect auditor), NOT SwiftUI structural moves like extracting a view model or decomposing a large body (→ swiftui-architecture-auditor). Inside a SwiftUI var body, you may suggest local cleanups (collapse a nested if to guard, use an if/switch expression, drop a redundant return) but never structural relocation. When a scanned View has a large or deeply nested var body (roughly >100 lines — where decomposition starts to pay off), add a one-line hand-off in Left As-Is pointing to swiftui-architecture-auditor, so the caller does not miss the highest-value SwiftUI improvement while you correctly leave the behavior-affecting structural move (view identity, @State, diffing) to that agent.

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.
  • Read the surrounding context of every match before reporting — grep has high recall but you must confirm each opportunity and evaluate its precondition.

Files to Exclude

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

Phase 1: Scan

Gather the Swift-file universe for the requested scope:

  • Whole project: Glob: **/*.swift (minus the exclusions above).
  • A subsystem/directory or a single file: restrict the Glob to that path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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 · 182 lines · 231 tokens per session scan A 49a219dd0ed2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

swift-simplifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository CharlesWiltgen/Axiom (1,148 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 231 tokens to every session and 2,972 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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