axiom-now-playing

axiom-now-playing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ComeOnOliver/skillshub. It costs 69 tokens per session (8,511 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to making an iOS app appear correctly in Now Playing, with playback metadata, artwork, and Lock Screen or Control Center controls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or diagnosing Now Playing support for audio or video playback.
Why use it?
It helps fix missing information, inactive buttons, incorrect artwork, and playback state that does not match the app.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when adding or diagnosing Now Playing support for audio or video playback.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/comeonoliver/skillshub/axiom-now-playing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,511 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 $0.00069 $0.08511
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.04255
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01702
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00851

Measured 9d ago against content hash 63ba2d9d6239, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

axiom-now-playing 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 9d 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-now-playing/SKILL.md · 1,003 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,003 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Now Playing Integration Guide

Purpose: Prevent the 4 most common Now Playing issues on iOS 18+: info not appearing, commands not working, artwork problems, and state sync issues

Swift Version: Swift 6.0+ iOS Version: iOS 18+ Xcode: Xcode 16+

Core Philosophy

"Now Playing eligibility requires THREE things working together: AVAudioSession activation, remote command handlers, and metadata publishing. Missing ANY of these silently breaks the entire system. 90% of Now Playing issues stem from incorrect activation order or missing command handlers, not API bugs."

Key Insight from WWDC 2022/110338: Apps must meet two system heuristics:

  1. Register handlers for at least one remote command
  2. Configure AVAudioSession with a non-mixable category

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Now Playing info doesn't appear on Lock Screen or Control Center
  • Play/pause/skip buttons are grayed out or don't respond
  • Album artwork is missing, wrong, or flickers between images
  • Control Center shows "Playing" when app is paused, or vice versa
  • Apple Music or other apps "steal" Now Playing status
  • Implementing Now Playing for the first time
  • Debugging Now Playing issues in existing implementation
  • Integrating CarPlay Now Playing (covered in Pattern 6)
  • Working with MusicKit/Apple Music content (covered in Pattern 7)

iOS 26 Note

iOS 26 introduces Liquid Glass visual design for Lock Screen and Control Center Now Playing widgets. This is automatic system behavior — no code changes required. The patterns in this skill remain valid for iOS 26.

Do NOT use this skill for:

  • Background audio configuration details (see AVFoundation skill)
  • swift-concurrency - For @MainActor patterns, weak self in closures, async artwork loading
  • memory-debugging - For retain cycles in command handlers
  • avfoundation-ref - For AVAudioSession configuration details

Red Flags / Anti-Patterns

If you see ANY of these, suspect Now Playing misconfiguration:

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,003 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. 9d ago First seen · 1,003 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 63ba2d9d6239

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axiom-now-playing is a skill published in the GitHub repository ComeOnOliver/skillshub (63 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 8,511 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.