axiom-background-processing

axiom-background-processing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ComeOnOliver/skillshub. It costs 47 tokens per session (7,242 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to iOS background tasks, which let an app request time to do work while it is not open.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to register and schedule BGTaskScheduler tasks, handle expiration and cancellation, and test background execution in iOS apps.
Why use it?
It explains why the operating system may delay or stop background work and helps diagnose tasks that never start or end too early.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to register and schedule BGTaskScheduler tasks, handle expiration and cancellation, and test background execution in iOS apps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/comeonoliver/skillshub/axiom-background-processing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,242 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 $0.00047 $0.07242
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.03621
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00724

Measured 4d ago against content hash 905b121c380d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

axiom-background-processing 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 4d 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-background-processing/SKILL.md · 1,013 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,013 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Background Processing

Overview

Background execution is a privilege, not a right. iOS actively limits background work to protect battery life and user experience. Core principle: Treat background tasks as discretionary jobs — you request a time window, the system decides when (or if) to run your code.

Key insight: Most "my task never runs" issues stem from registration mistakes or misunderstanding the 7 scheduling factors that govern execution. This skill provides systematic debugging, not guesswork.

Energy optimization: For reducing battery impact of background tasks, see axiom-energy skill. This skill focuses on task mechanics — making tasks run correctly and complete reliably.

Requirements: iOS 13+ (BGTaskScheduler), iOS 26+ (BGContinuedProcessingTask), Xcode 15+

Example Prompts

Real questions developers ask that this skill answers:

1. "My background task never runs. I register it, schedule it, but nothing happens."

→ The skill covers the registration checklist and debugging decision tree for "task never runs" issues

2. "How do I test background tasks? They don't seem to trigger in the simulator."

→ The skill covers LLDB debugging commands and simulator limitations

3. "My task gets terminated before it completes. How do I extend the time?"

→ The skill covers task types (BGAppRefresh 30s vs BGProcessing minutes), expiration handlers, and incremental progress saving

4. "Should I use BGAppRefreshTask or BGProcessingTask? What's the difference?"

→ The skill provides decision tree for choosing the correct task type based on work duration and system requirements

5. "How do I integrate Swift 6 concurrency with background task expiration?"

→ The skill covers withTaskCancellationHandler patterns for bridging BGTask expiration to structured concurrency

6. "My background task works in development but not in production."

→ The skill covers the 7 scheduling factors, throttling behavior, and production debugging

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,013 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. 4d ago First seen · 1,013 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 905b121c380d

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axiom-background-processing is a skill published in the GitHub repository ComeOnOliver/skillshub (63 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 7,242 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.