modernize

modernize is a command for Claude Code from CharlesWiltgen/Axiom. It costs 19 tokens per session (251 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An iOS code-modernisation command that finds older SwiftUI and UIKit patterns and explains how to replace them with current equivalents. SwiftUI is Apple's framework for building app interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps migrate ObservableObject, property wrappers, deprecated SwiftUI APIs, and older UIKit patterns toward modern Swift and SwiftUI code.
Why use it?
It shows which parts of an iOS app are outdated and gives an adoption path instead of leaving you with a list of warnings.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

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

Good fit It helps migrate ObservableObject, property wrappers, deprecated SwiftUI APIs, and older UIKit patterns toward modern Swift and SwiftUI code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/charleswiltgen/axiom/modernize
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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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 251 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 $0.00019 $0.00251
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00125
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00025

Measured 8d ago against content hash 47144c5a5c86, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

modernize 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude-plugin/plugins/axiom/commands/modernize.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Modernize iOS Code

Launches the modernization-helper agent to find legacy patterns and give you the migration path for each.

Shorthand for /axiom:audit modernization — same agent, fewer keystrokes.

What It Does

The agent will:

  1. Scan for ObservableObject / @Published that should become @Observable
  2. Find @StateObject and @ObservedObject that should become @State / @Bindable
  3. Flag deprecated SwiftUI APIs still in use, with their replacements
  4. Identify UIKit patterns that have a modern SwiftUI or scene-lifecycle equivalent
  5. Give a migration path per finding rather than a bare list, so you can adopt incrementally

Prefer Natural Language?

You can also trigger this agent by saying:

  • "How do I migrate from ObservableObject to @Observable?"
  • "Are there any deprecated APIs in my SwiftUI code?"
  • "Update my code to use modern SwiftUI patterns"
  • "Should I still use @StateObject?"
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 · 29 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 47144c5a5c86

Subscribe to this mod's changes

modernize is a command published in the GitHub repository CharlesWiltgen/Axiom (1,148 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 251 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.