axiom-axe-ref

axiom-axe-ref is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ComeOnOliver/skillshub. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,875 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for AXe, a command-line tool that uses iOS accessibility information to inspect and control Simulator interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect the accessibility tree, tap elements by identifier or label, enter text, perform gestures, and capture screenshots or video from an iOS Simulator.
Why use it?
It provides more reliable UI targeting than guessing screen coordinates, especially when testing taps, gestures, and text entry.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to inspect the accessibility tree, tap elements by identifier or label, enter text, perform gestures, and capture screenshots or video from an iOS Simulator.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/comeonoliver/skillshub/axiom-axe-ref
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ComeOnOliver/skillshub --skill axiom-axe-ref
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ComeOnOliver/skillshub

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,875 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 $0.00045 $0.02875
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01437
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00575
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00287

Measured 6d ago against content hash bfee34f9e926, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

axiom-axe-ref 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.

skills/CharlesWiltgen/Axiom/axiom-axe-ref/SKILL.md · 411 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 411 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AXe Reference (iOS Simulator UI Automation)

AXe is a CLI tool for interacting with iOS Simulators using Apple's Accessibility APIs and HID functionality. Single binary, no daemon required.

Installation

brew install cameroncooke/axe/axe

# Verify installation
axe --version

Critical Best Practice: describe_ui First

ALWAYS run describe_ui before UI interactions. Never guess coordinates from screenshots.

Best practice: Use describe-ui to get precise element coordinates prior to using x/y parameters (don't guess from screenshots).

# 1. FIRST: Get the UI tree with frame coordinates
axe describe-ui --udid $UDID

# 2. THEN: Tap by accessibility ID (preferred)
axe tap --id "loginButton" --udid $UDID

# 3. OR: Tap by label
axe tap --label "Login" --udid $UDID

# 4. LAST RESORT: Tap by coordinates from describe-ui output
axe tap -x 200 -y 400 --udid $UDID

Priority order for targeting elements:

  1. --id (accessibilityIdentifier) - most stable
  2. --label (accessibility label) - stable but may change with localization
  3. -x -y coordinates from describe-ui - fragile, use only when no identifier

Core Concept: Accessibility-First

AXe's key advantage: Tap elements by accessibility identifier or label, not just coordinates.

# Coordinate-based (fragile - breaks with layout changes)
axe tap -x 200 -y 400 --udid $UDID

# Accessibility-based (stable - survives UI changes)
axe tap --id "loginButton" --udid $UDID
axe tap --label "Login" --udid $UDID

Always prefer --id or --label over coordinates.

Getting the Simulator UDID

AXe requires the simulator UDID for most commands:

# Get booted simulator UDID
UDID=$(xcrun simctl list devices -j | jq -r '.devices | to_entries[] | .value[] | select(.state == "Booted") | .udid' | head -1)

# List all simulators
axe list-simulators

Touch & Tap Commands

Tap by Accessibility Identifier (Recommended)

# Tap element with accessibilityIdentifier
axe tap --id "loginButton" --udid $UDID

# Tap element with accessibility label
axe tap --label "Submit" --udid $UDID

Read the full file on GitHub · 411 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. 6d ago First seen · 411 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A bfee34f9e926

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axiom-axe-ref is a skill published in the GitHub repository ComeOnOliver/skillshub (63 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,875 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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