ax-go-gepa

ax-go-gepa is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ax-llm/ax. It costs 45 tokens per session (455 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ax-cpp-playbook, Apache-2.0.

A Go coding guide for GEPA, an optimizer that improves agent instructions or programs using feedback and evaluation scores. It covers trade-offs, budgets, reflection clients, saved state, and result files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to optimize Go-based agents, compare instruction variants, manage evaluation budgets, inspect optimizer state, or save optimization artifacts.
Why use it?
It helps run optimization in a controlled way and track how candidates, evaluations, and resource limits affect the result. It also explains how to seed the process with example solutions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to optimize Go-based agents, compare instruction variants, manage evaluation budgets, inspect optimizer state, or save optimization artifacts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ax-llm/ax/ax-go-gepa
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 · 2,895 stars · on GitHub · axllm.dev

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ax-llm/ax --skill ax-go-gepa
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ax-llm/ax

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 455 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin 72% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00045 $0.00455
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00228
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00046

Measured yesterday against content hash 8b426380e90c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ax-go-gepa 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

72% identical to ax-cpp-playbook — 31 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

packages/go/skills/ax-go-gepa/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Ax GEPA For Go

This skill helps an agent write Go code with the generated Ax package github.com/ax-llm/ax/packages/go. Use the generated package API, examples, and manifests; do not import TypeScript-only APIs unless you are editing the TypeScript package.

When To Use

  • Run the generated GEPA optimizer or inspect a GEPA artifact.
  • Use BootstrapFewShot before GEPA when demonstrations should seed optimization.
  • Track metric budgets, reflection calls, candidate state, and Pareto fronts.

Package Facts

  • Language: Go.
  • Package: github.com/ax-llm/ax/packages/go.
  • Package API docs: API.md and axir-api.json.
  • Capability manifest: axir-capabilities.json.
  • Runnable examples: examples/.
  • Real network support: yes.
  • Scripted no-key transport support: yes.
  • Runtime profiles: javascript-goja.

Core Pattern

engine := ax.NewGEPA(reflectionClient, nil)
result := engine.Optimize(request, evaluator)

Relevant API Surface

  • Optimizers: axllm.Optimize, axllm.Playbook, axllm.AxPlaybook, axllm.AxBootstrapFewShot, axllm.AxGEPA, axllm.OptimizerEngine, axllm.OptimizerEvaluator

Guardrails

  • Start from package examples for exact native syntax before inventing a new call shape.
  • Use provider-api examples only when the user explicitly has provider credentials available.
  • Use no-key examples for deterministic local checks and provider request mapping.
  • Treat AxIR as the source of generated package truth: if package docs disagree with source code, update the compiler and regenerate packages.
  • Do not copy repo-maintainer skills from tools/*/skills/ into user packages.
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. yesterday Changed 8b426380e90c
  2. 9d ago Changed 95bf7b704040
  3. 11d ago First seen · 44 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A c228da795524

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ax-go-gepa is a skill published in the GitHub repository ax-llm/ax (2,895 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 455 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 72% identical to ax-cpp-playbook, differing in 31 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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