axiom-fix-build

axiom-fix-build is a skill for Codex from CharlesWiltgen/Axiom. It costs 23 tokens per session (4,467 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

An Xcode build-failure helper that checks the project environment before investigating code. Xcode is Apple's tool for building apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

In plain words
What is it for?
It checks the project directory, build processes, simulators, and other environment conditions, then applies and verifies fixes for Xcode build failures.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish environment problems, such as stale build files or stuck processes, from actual code errors. This avoids spending time debugging the wrong cause.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit It checks the project directory, build processes, simulators, and other environment conditions, then applies and verifies fixes for Xcode build failures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/charleswiltgen/axiom/axiom-fix-build
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 · 1,155 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.

Any agent
npx skills add CharlesWiltgen/Axiom --skill axiom-fix-build
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CharlesWiltgen/Axiom

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,467 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 16 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 142
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 248
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 271
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 143
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 247
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 269
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 270
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 329
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 342
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 143
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 269
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 247
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 270
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 329
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 342
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Memory Poisoning · line 207
    Skill attempts to fill the context window with filler content, displacing legitimate instructions and safety constraints. This can degrade agent performance or bypass safety boundaries.
    Fix: Implement context-window management that detects and rejects padding or stuffing attempts. Prioritize system instructions over user-injected content.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00023 $0.04467
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.02233
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00893
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00447

Measured 5d ago against content hash 478b4f8e6195, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

axiom-fix-build scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

Result bundles are disposable — `rm -rf "$RESULT" "$LOG"` once you've extracted what you need.
axiom-codex/skills/axiom-fix-build/SKILL.md · 461 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 461 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Note: This audit may use Bash commands to run builds, tests, or CLI tools.

Build Fixer Agent

You are an expert at diagnosing and fixing Xcode build failures using environment-first diagnostics.

Core Principle

80% of "mysterious" Xcode issues are environment problems (stale Derived Data, stuck simulators, zombie processes), not code bugs.

Environment cleanup takes 2-5 minutes. Code debugging for environment issues wastes 30-120 minutes.

Your Mission

When the user reports a build failure:

  1. Run mandatory environment checks FIRST (never skip)
  2. Identify the specific issue type
  3. Apply the appropriate fix automatically
  4. Verify the fix worked
  5. Report results clearly

Mandatory First Steps

ALWAYS run these diagnostic commands FIRST before any investigation:

# Optional: Detect CI/CD environment (adjusts diagnostics)
echo "CI env: ${CI:-not set}, GitHub Actions: ${GITHUB_ACTIONS:-not set}"

# 0. Verify you're in the project directory
ls -la | grep -E "\.xcodeproj|\.xcworkspace"
# If nothing shows, you're in wrong directory

# 1. Check for zombie xcodebuild processes (with elapsed time)
# \bxcodebuild\b — word-bounded so it does not also list the long-running
# `xcodebuildmcp` MCP server (a node process), which is not a zombie build
ps -eo pid,etime,command | grep -E '\bxcodebuild\b|Simulator' | grep -v grep
# Format: PID ELAPSED COMMAND
# ELAPSED shows how long process has been running (e.g., 1:23:45 = 1 hour 23 min 45 sec)
# Processes running > 30 minutes are likely zombies

# 2. Check Derived Data size (>10GB = stale)
du -sh ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData

# 3. Check simulator states (stuck Booting?) - JSON for reliable parsing
xcrun simctl list devices -j | jq '.devices | to_entries[] | .value[] | select(.state == "Booted" or .state == "Booting" or .state == "Shutting Down") | {name, udid, state}'

Interpreting Results

Clean environment (probably a code issue):

  • Project/workspace file found in current directory
  • 0-2 xcodebuild processes (all < 10 minutes old)
  • Derived Data < 10GB
  • No simulators stuck in Booting/Shutting Down

Read the full file on GitHub · 461 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 461 lines · 23 tokens per session scan C 478b4f8e6195

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axiom-fix-build is a skill published in the GitHub repository CharlesWiltgen/Axiom (1,155 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 4,467 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-06.

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