# Axiom by Charles Wiltgen

16 Hacker News commenters recommended Axiom by Charles Wiltgen and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free open-source Claude skills and agents that help coding assistants build and audit iOS and macOS apps; its main caveat is that it does little for code review or generation.

## Why people recommend it

- Makes AI coding assistants better at Apple development (3 comments): "Suite of skills, agents, and tools that make general SOTA models actually good at building and/or auditing iOS/macOS apps" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450789)) "Anytime you're designing something refer to Axiom, Claude needs its skills and agents to steer designs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721327)) "does a good job of helping coding harnesses know how to do this effectively for Apple OS development" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897294))
- Free and open source (4 comments): "as the creator/maintainer of the free/open source Axiom for iOS/macOS devs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338958)) "You may find Axiom (my FOSS project, updated for iPhone Duo) helpful." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760392)) "the SwiftUI performance auditor in a free/FOSS project of mine" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843447))
- Praised as excellent and useful (4 comments): "Looks like you really did a good job, though!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284659)) "Use axiom all the time thanks for your work." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899715)) "Axiom is excellent, thanks for making it!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897451))
- Useful for logs and tracing (4 comments): "We also use Axiom MCP so when we need some trace or event in the logs the agents look for it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401128)) "I can do this with axiom already and I’ve never worried about how to log." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349505)) "I like the end result of OpenTelemetry tracing when using Axiom" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49397084))

## What people warn about

- Seen as low-effort AI hype (2 comments): "its just a 50 line python file, pretty sure its AI slop XD" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124234)) "seems like excesses of AI boom era" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275683))
- Does little for code review (1 comments): "Axiom won't do much for code review or generation." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899898))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Claude Code skills for building Godot games](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-code-skills-for-building-godot-games.md): 14 recommend
- [Claude Code Review](https://hackerapproved.com/p/code-review-for-claude-code.md): 11 recommend
- [I-have-ADHD skill](https://hackerapproved.com/p/i-have-adhd-skill.md): 9 recommend
- [skill-creator](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-skill-creator-skill.md): 8 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Axiom by Charles Wiltgen", https://hackerapproved.com/p/axiom/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).