axiom-build-performance

axiom-build-performance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ComeOnOliver/skillshub. It costs 47 tokens per session (5,499 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to measuring and reducing Xcode build times, including slow Swift type checking, incremental builds, and compilation caching.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to measure clean and incremental builds, inspect the Build Timeline, find slow-compiling code, improve caching, and investigate build-time regressions.
Why use it?
It helps identify the part of the build that is actually slow before making changes, including builds run in continuous integration systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to measure clean and incremental builds, inspect the Build Timeline, find slow-compiling code, improve caching, and investigate build-time regressions.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00047 $0.05499
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.02750
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00550

Measured 7d ago against content hash f6a6c88fa680, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

axiom-build-performance 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 7d ago.

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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-build-performance/SKILL.md · 771 lines

How it starts

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Build Performance Optimization

Overview

Systematic Xcode build performance analysis and optimization. Core principle: Measure before optimizing, then optimize the critical path first.

When to Use This Skill

  • Build times have increased significantly
  • Incremental builds taking too long
  • Want to analyze Build Timeline
  • Need to identify slow-compiling Swift code
  • Optimizing CI/CD build times
  • Build performance regression investigation
  • Enabling Xcode 26 compilation caching
  • Reducing module variants in explicitly built modules
  • Understanding the three-phase build process (scan → modules → compile)

Quick Win: Run the Agent First

For automated scanning and quick wins:

/axiom:optimize-build

The build-optimizer agent scans for common issues and provides immediate fixes. Use this skill for deep analysis.

The Build Performance Workflow

Step 1: Measure Baseline (Required)

Why: You can't improve what you don't measure. Baseline prevents placebo optimizations.

# Clean build (eliminates all caching)
xcodebuild clean build -scheme YourScheme

# Measure time
time xcodebuild build -scheme YourScheme

# Or use Xcode UI
Product → Perform Action → Build with Timing Summary

Record:

  • Total build time
  • Incremental build time (change one file, rebuild)
  • Which phase takes longest (compilation vs linking vs scripts)

Example baseline:

Clean build: 247 seconds
Incremental (1 file change): 12 seconds
Longest phase: Compile Swift sources (189s)

Step 2: Analyze Build Timeline (Xcode 14+)

Access:

  1. Build your project (Cmd+B)
  2. Open Report Navigator (Cmd+9)
  3. Select latest build
  4. Show Assistant Editor (Cmd+Option+Return)
  5. Build Timeline appears alongside build log

What to look for:

Critical Path (The Build's Speed Limit)

The critical path is the shortest possible build time with unlimited CPU cores. It's defined by the longest chain of dependent tasks.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Critical Path: A → B → C → D (120s)   │
│                                         │
│  Task A: 30s  ─────────┐               │
│  Task B: 40s           ├─→ D: 20s      │
│  Task C: 30s  ─────────┘               │
│                                         │
│  Even with 100 CPUs, build takes 120s  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 771 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 7d ago First seen · 771 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A f6a6c88fa680

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axiom-build-performance 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 5,499 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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