profile

profile is a command for Claude Code from CharlesWiltgen/Axiom. It costs 17 tokens per session (385 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automated iOS performance profiler that records app activity with xcprof and analyses the resulting trace. A performance trace is a time-based record used to find slow or resource-heavy work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps find CPU bottlenecks and inspect network activity, while recording but not automatically analysing memory and energy views.
Why use it?
It provides structured findings without requiring the Instruments graphical interface and states clearly which measurements were actually analysed.

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/charleswiltgen/axiom/profile
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 385 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00017 $0.00385
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00192
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00038

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4dc78c1993d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

profile 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 6d 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/commands/profile.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Profile Performance

Launches the performance-profiler agent to record and analyze performance traces using the xcprof CLI (record → analyze), no Instruments GUI required.

What It Does

The agent will:

  1. Detect available simulators and running apps
  2. Help you select what to profile
  3. Record a trace with xcprof record — preset-based, bounded by --max-duration, and gated (launch / system-wide capture require explicit opt-in)
  4. Analyze it with xcprof analyze --json — back-references resolved, system frames filtered, work attributed to user code
  5. Report findings with an honest per-family support matrix (so an unmeasured family is never reported as clean) and recommendations

Supported Instruments

xcprof analyze produces structured findings for:

  • CPU Profiler — hot functions and CPU bottlenecks (cpu preset)
  • Network Connections — socket-level connection stats (network preset)

These are recorded but not parsed by analyze — open the trace in Instruments (open <trace>) for their views:

  • Allocations / Leaks — memory usage and growth (analyze reports them not_exportable)
  • Power Profiler — energy (on-device iOS; not_exportable on macOS)
  • SwiftUI, Swift Tasks/Actors — recorded alongside CPU Profiler

Prefer Natural Language?

You can also trigger this agent by saying:

  • "Profile my app's CPU usage"
  • "Run Time Profiler on my app"
  • "Check for memory leaks"
  • "Profile my app's launch time"
  • "Run a headless performance trace"
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. 6d ago First seen · 41 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 4dc78c1993d6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

profile is a command published in the GitHub repository CharlesWiltgen/Axiom (1,148 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 385 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.