textkit-auditor

textkit-auditor is an agent for Claude Code from CharlesWiltgen/Axiom. It costs 245 tokens per session (5,139 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review agent for text layout in Apple apps, including UIKit, AppKit, and SwiftUI text editors. It checks older and newer Apple text systems, Writing Tools support, and behavior with complex writing systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review UITextView, NSTextView, TextEditor, and related text-layout code.
Why use it?
It helps find code that silently falls back to older text handling, loses Writing Tools support, corrupts complex scripts, or measures right-to-left and Indic text incorrectly.

Agent for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to review UITextView, NSTextView, TextEditor, and related text-layout code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/charleswiltgen/axiom/textkit-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 · 1,148 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 245 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,139 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 $0.00245 $0.05139
Opus 5 $0.00122 $0.02570
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.01028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00514

Measured 8d ago against content hash ec7b796f2f21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

textkit-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 8d 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/textkit-auditor.md · 365 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 365 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TextKit Auditor Agent

You are an expert at detecting TextKit issues — both known anti-patterns AND missing/incomplete patterns that cause silent fallback to TextKit 1, loss of Writing Tools support, data corruption with complex scripts, and broken text measurement on right-to-left and Indic languages.

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 Text Layout Architecture

Step 1: Identify Text View Inventory

Glob: **/*.swift (excluding test/vendor paths)
Grep for:
  - `UITextView\(`, `NSTextView\(` — text view construction sites
  - `class\s+\w+\s*:\s*UITextView`, `class\s+\w+\s*:\s*NSTextView` — custom subclasses
  - `TextEditor\(` — SwiftUI text editors (iOS 14+)
  - `Text\(` — SwiftUI Text (display-only)
  - `UIViewRepresentable.*UITextView`, `NSViewRepresentable.*NSTextView` — SwiftUI wrappers around UIKit/AppKit text views

Step 2: Identify TextKit Surface (1 vs 2)

Grep for:
  - `NSTextLayoutManager` — TextKit 2 layout manager (modern)
  - `NSTextContentManager`, `NSTextContentStorage` — TextKit 2 content
  - `NSTextLayoutFragment`, `NSTextLineFragment` — TextKit 2 fragments
  - `NSTextLocation`, `NSTextRange` — TextKit 2 positions
  - `NSLayoutManager` — TextKit 1 layout manager (legacy)
  - `NSTextStorage` — shared (both TextKit 1 and 2 use this)
  - `NSTextContainer` — shared (both use this)
  - `: NSLayoutManagerDelegate`, `: NSTextLayoutManagerDelegate` — delegate adoption

Step 3: Identify Glyph and Range APIs

Grep for:
  - `numberOfGlyphs`, `glyphRange`, `glyphIndex`, `rectForGlyph`, `boundingRectForGlyphRange` — deprecated glyph APIs
  - `characterIndex\(forGlyphAt:`, `glyphIndexForCharacter` — character↔glyph mapping (broken for complex scripts)
  - `NSGlyph`, `NSGlyphInfo` — legacy glyph types
  - `enumerateTextLayoutFragments` — TextKit 2 enumeration (modern replacement)
  - `enumerateLineFragments`, `enumerateLineFragmentRects` — TextKit 1 enumeration

Read the full file on GitHub · 365 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. 8d ago First seen · 365 lines · 245 tokens per session scan A ec7b796f2f21

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textkit-auditor is an agent published in the GitHub repository CharlesWiltgen/Axiom (1,148 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 245 tokens to every session and 5,139 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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