ax-ai

ax-ai is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ax-llm/ax. It costs 100 tokens per session (10,292 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for configuring AI providers and models in Ax. It covers provider setup, model selection, routing, embeddings, audio services, caching, and related model options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when connecting an AI provider, selecting models, routing requests, configuring embeddings, or setting up transcription and speech generation.
Why use it?
AI applications often need different providers or models for different tasks, and provider settings can be easy to configure incorrectly. This guide keeps those choices in one consistent Ax setup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when connecting an AI provider, selecting models, routing requests, configuring embeddings, or setting up transcription and speech generation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ax-llm/ax/ax-ai
About the project

Ax is a TypeScript-first programming framework for building applications with large language models through typed generation, agents, workflows, and optimization tools. It is intended for developers who want one model for LLM programs across TypeScript, Python, Java, C++, Go, Rust, and other runtimes.

ax-llm/ax · 2,893 stars · on GitHub · axllm.dev

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 ax-llm/ax --skill ax-ai
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ax-llm/ax

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,292 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 588
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00100 $0.10292
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.05146
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.02058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.01029

Measured today against content hash 668965c08338, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ax-ai 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 today.

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.

website/static/typescript/.well-known/agent-skills/ax-ai/SKILL.md · 880 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 880 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Provider Codegen Rules (@ax-llm/ax)

Use this skill to generate AI provider setup, configuration, and chat code. Prefer short, modern, copyable patterns. Do not write tutorial prose unless the user explicitly asks for explanation.

Quick Setup

import { ai } from '@ax-llm/ax';

const openai = ai({ name: 'openai', apiKey: 'sk-...' });
const claude = ai({ name: 'anthropic', apiKey: 'sk-ant-...' });
const gemini = ai({ name: 'google-gemini', apiKey: 'AIza...' });
const azure = ai({ name: 'azure-openai', apiKey: 'your-key', resourceName: 'your-resource', deploymentName: 'gpt-5-4-mini' });
const deepseek = ai({ name: 'deepseek', apiKey: 'sk-...' });
const mistral = ai({ name: 'mistral', apiKey: 'your-key' });
const cohere = ai({ name: 'cohere', apiKey: 'your-key' });
const custom = ai({
  name: 'openai-compatible',
  apiKey: process.env.PROVIDER_API_KEY,
  apiURL: 'https://example.com/v1',
  config: { model: 'provider/model-name' },
});
const reka = ai({ name: 'reka', apiKey: 'your-key' });
const grok = ai({ name: 'grok', apiKey: 'your-key' });

name selects a deployment profile; config.model selects a model inside that deployment. Never infer provider behavior from a model ID. For example, name: 'together' with a deepseek-ai/... model uses Together's profile rules, not DeepSeek's native request shape.

Use axAIProfiles() to discover the complete named catalog and axGetAIProfile(name) to inspect endpoint requirements, authentication, operations, capabilities, model rules, sources, and review dates. Use name: 'openai-compatible' plus apiURL for an unlisted custom endpoint; unknown names are errors.

Profile-only branded classes were removed in the major-version migration. Use ai({ name: ... }) for Azure OpenAI, Cohere, DeepSeek, DeepSeek Responses, Mistral, Reka, and Grok. Retained low-level classes represent genuine transports/runtimes only; legacy model enum and catalog exports remain usable.

Renewable Credentials

Use credentialProvider for expiring bearer tokens. The callback runs for each request attempt and receives { profile, operation, method, url }. Fresh headers override static authentication headers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 880 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. today Changed · +11 lines 668965c08338
  2. yesterday Changed · +110 lines · +2 tokens per session 4ce6bbf6400d
  3. 5d ago First seen · 759 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 33250cc27eca

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ax-ai is a skill published in the GitHub repository ax-llm/ax (2,893 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 10,292 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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