xcsym

xcsym is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from patrickserrano/lacquer. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,000 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for turning iOS and macOS crash reports into readable reports tied to the code that crashed. It also groups crashes by pattern to help with triage, meaning deciding which crashes need attention first.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with .ips, MetricKit, .crash, or Xcode Organizer crash files, including crashes from TestFlight or the App Store.
Why use it?
Crash reports are often hard to read without matching debugging files called dSYMs; this removes the manual search and symbolication work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it with .ips, MetricKit, .crash, or Xcode Organizer crash files, including crashes from TestFlight or the App Store.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/patrickserrano/lacquer/xcsym
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add patrickserrano/lacquer --skill xcsym
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patrickserrano/lacquer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,000 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 $0.00082 $0.01000
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00500
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00100

Measured 3d ago against content hash 19d13c97c4f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

xcsym 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 3d 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.

2. If not found, stop and tell the user to build it: `git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CharlesWiltgen/Axiom /tmp/axiom-src && cd /tmp/axiom-src/tools/xcsym && go build -o xcsym . && sudo mv xcsym /usr/local/bin/` (
profiles/ios/skills/xcsym/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

xcsym — Crash Symbolication

xcsym parses a crash report end-to-end (detect format → discover dSYMs → symbolicate via atos → categorize into a pattern_tag) and emits token-lean JSON, so triage is one call instead of the manual atos/dSYM-hunting dance. Use it instead of raw atos or symbolicatecrash for any .ips, MetricKit, .crash, or .xccrashpoint input — this fleet has no other crash-symbolication path today; native-app-profiling/swiftui-expert-skill cover live Instruments profiling, not post-mortem crash files.

Resolving the binary

xcsym is not bundled with FlowDeck or RocketSim and ships no Homebrew formula or GitHub release — it's a zero-dependency Go module distributed as source inside CharlesWiltgen/Axiom (tools/xcsym/, MIT). Resolve it once per machine:

  1. command -v xcsym — if found, use it.
  2. If not found, stop and tell the user to build it: git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CharlesWiltgen/Axiom /tmp/axiom-src && cd /tmp/axiom-src/tools/xcsym && go build -o xcsym . && sudo mv xcsym /usr/local/bin/ (or any directory on PATH). Do not attempt this yourself unless the user has already agreed to installing new tooling.

Don't confuse this with the full Axiom Claude Code plugin — this fleet deliberately did not adopt that (see docs/references.md); only the standalone xcsym binary is in use here.

Core workflow

crash is the default entry point — it does everything in one call:

xcsym crash path/to/report.ips
  • Auto-detects .ips (v1/v2), MetricKit JSON, legacy .crash text, and .xccrashpoint bundles (walks Filters/Filter_*/Logs/ automatically, picks the most recent).
  • Output is compact single-line JSON by default; add --human for terse prose, or pipe through jq for pretty-printing.
  • Only reach for resolve (single-address lookup), find-dsym (UUID-driven dSYM search), list-dsyms (inventory), or verify (per-image UUID/arch diagnostics) when crash fails or you need one specific sub-step — see references/xcsym-reference.md for their flags.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 45 lines · 82 tokens per session scan B 19d13c97c4f8

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xcsym is a skill published in the GitHub repository patrickserrano/lacquer (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,000 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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