Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to netlify/axis. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netlify/axis/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/netlify/axisWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/netlify/axis/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/netlify/axis/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/netlify/axis/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/netlify/axis/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/netlify/axis/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.09543 | $0.09543 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.03817 | $0.03817 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01909 | $0.01909 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00954 | $0.00954 |
Grade F, and why
axis AGENTS.md scanned grade F with 4 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 27d 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.
Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain
curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.
- **No npm package**, so the `npx` fallback cannot install it: `muse` must already be on `PATH` (`curl https://dev.meta.ai/install.sh | bash`) Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
`claude-code` and `codex` declare `requiredEnv` (`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `CODEX_API_KEY`) AND implement `hasLocalSession`. Pre-flight in `runner.ts` checks env vars first; if missing, it calls `hasLocalSession` and only thr Recursive force deletehighDestructive command
rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.
rm -rf dist && npm run build # Always clean build -stale dist/ causes subtle issues Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
- **No npm package**, so the `npx` fallback cannot install it: `muse` must already be on `PATH` (`curl https://dev.meta.ai/install.sh | bash`) How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Project Overview
AXIS (Agent Experience Index Score) is a synthetic testing framework for AI agents. It runs agents against scenarios, captures transcripts, and produces graded scores across four dimensions: goal achievement, environment quality, service quality, and agent quality.
- ESM TypeScript, built with
tsc, tested withvitest, CLI viacommander - Live terminal display uses
ink(React for CLIs), rendered to stderr - Runner is fully decoupled from display via a
Loggerinterface
Terminology
- AXIS Result (not "AXIS Score") -the composite 0–100 number. "AXIS Score" reads as "score score" since AXIS already stands for "Agent Experience Index Score".
- Use "AXIS Result" in all user-facing text, display output, and documentation.
- The internal property names (
axisScore,averageAxisScore) are fine as code identifiers.
Architecture
| Layer | Key Files | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | src/cli.ts |
Entry point, ink display, signal handling |
| Runner | src/runner/runner.ts, lifecycle.ts, repo-cache.ts |
Job orchestration, concurrency, isolation; runLifecyclePhase captures $AXIS_OUTPUT markdown for setup/teardown/beforeAll/afterAll phases; repo-cache.ts clones git URLs used by copy actions into .axis/repos/<host>/<owner>/<repo>/<ref>, once per (repo, ref) per process |
| Adapters | src/adapters/*.ts |
Spawn agent CLIs, parse NDJSON streams |
| Scoring | src/scoring/ |
LLM judge + interaction-based evaluation pipeline; aggregate.ts collapses a pair's repeated runs into a representative run + spread + reliability |
| Reports | src/reports/writer.ts, reader.ts, paths.ts |
Persistent .axis/reports/ store; paths.ts is the single source of truth for per-run file layout |
| Config | src/config/loader.ts, remote-scenarios.ts |
Parses axis.config.*; walks the scenarios tree (see discovery buckets under Gotchas); mergeRemoteConfig clones any git-URL entries in scenarios into .axis/remotes/, inlines their paths, AND folds each remote repo's env/mcp_servers/skills/artifacts/adapters into the parent (parent wins on collisions) |
| Display | src/ui/format.ts, LiveStatus.tsx, AnimatedTokens.tsx |
Pure formatting + ink components (incl. live token counter) |
| Types | src/types/ |
Shared interfaces (agent, config, output, scoring, report) |
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.
- 27d ago Changed · +27 lines · +2,370 tokens per session scan D → F 51556c5fb25b
- 28d ago Changed · +29 lines · +2,519 tokens per session ab7ecbdc9fc5
- 1mo ago Changed · +17 lines · +1,124 tokens per session 6038898830f4
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +195 tokens per session 75a38ca51b16
- 2mo ago First seen · 149 lines · 3,335 tokens per session scan D 20abf2d32f7d
axis AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository netlify/axis (66 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 9,543 tokens to every session, about $0.0382 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it F with 4 findings (downloads and executes remote code, reads agent configuration directories, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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