ax-build-ref

ax-build-ref is a skill for Claude Code from Kasempiternal/axiom-v2. It costs 33 tokens per session (3,343 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A reference guide for building Apple projects with xcodebuild, including projects, workspaces, simulators, devices, Swift packages, and dependency managers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find schemes, inspect settings, build or clean projects, build for testing, run tests without rebuilding, and configure CocoaPods, Carthage, Swift Package Manager, or xcconfig files.
Why use it?
It provides the exact command patterns and build settings needed when Xcode build configuration is unclear.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is -archivePath ./build/YourApp.xcarchive.

Part of the axiom plugin — 40 skills, 8 commands, 12 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to find schemes, inspect settings, build or clean projects, build for testing, run tests without rebuilding, and configure CocoaPods, Carthage, Swift Package Manager, or xcconfig files.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kasempiternal/axiom-v2
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kasempiternal/axiom-v2/ax-build-ref

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install axiom, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 8 commands, 12 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,343 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00033 $0.03343
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01672
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00669
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00334

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6a9af242d0b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ax-build-ref scanned grade B 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 10d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode-16.app
axiom-plugin/skills/ax-build-ref/SKILL.md · 470 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 470 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build Reference

Quick Patterns

Find Your Scheme

xcodebuild -list

Show Build Settings

xcodebuild -showBuildSettings -scheme YourScheme
xcodebuild -showBuildSettings -scheme YourScheme | grep FRAMEWORK_SEARCH_PATHS
xcodebuild -showBuildSettings -configuration Debug > debug.txt
xcodebuild -showBuildSettings -configuration Release > release.txt

Build Commands

# Basic build
xcodebuild build -scheme YourScheme

# Build for simulator
xcodebuild build -scheme YourScheme \
  -destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 16'

# Build for device
xcodebuild build -scheme YourScheme \
  -destination 'platform=iOS,name=Your iPhone'

# Workspace build (CocoaPods)
xcodebuild -workspace YourApp.xcworkspace -scheme YourScheme build

# Project-only build (no CocoaPods)
xcodebuild -project YourApp.xcodeproj -scheme YourScheme build

# Clean build
xcodebuild clean build -scheme YourScheme

# Verbose output
xcodebuild -verbose build -scheme YourScheme

# Build with timing summary
xcodebuild build -scheme YourScheme -showBuildTimingSummary

# Build for testing (faster, no run)
xcodebuild build-for-testing -scheme YourScheme
xcodebuild test-without-building -scheme YourScheme

# Archive
xcodebuild archive -scheme YourApp \
  -archivePath ./build/YourApp.xcarchive

# Build with specific setting override
xcodebuild build -scheme YourScheme \
  COMPILATION_CACHE_ENABLE_CACHING=YES

Test Commands

# Run all tests
xcodebuild test -scheme YourScheme \
  -destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 16'

# Run specific test class
xcodebuild test -scheme YourScheme \
  -destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 16' \
  -only-testing:YourTests/SpecificTestClass

# Run specific test method
xcodebuild test -scheme YourScheme \
  -destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 16' \
  -only-testing:YourTests/SpecificTestClass/testMethodName

Decision Tree

Need to build?
├─ What file type?
│  ├─ .xcworkspace -> xcodebuild -workspace
│  ├─ .xcodeproj  -> xcodebuild -project
│  └─ Package.swift -> swift build
├─ What destination?
│  ├─ Simulator -> -destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 16'
│  ├─ Device    -> -destination 'platform=iOS,name=Device Name'
│  └─ macOS     -> -destination 'platform=macOS'
├─ What configuration?
│  ├─ Debug   -> -configuration Debug (default)
│  └─ Release -> -configuration Release
└─ Need special flags?
   ├─ Timing -> -showBuildTimingSummary
   ├─ Verbose -> -verbose
   └─ Override setting -> SETTING_NAME=value

Read the full file on GitHub · 470 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. 10d ago First seen · 470 lines · 33 tokens per session scan B 6a9af242d0b1

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ax-build-ref is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kasempiternal/axiom-v2 (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 3,343 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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