ax-java-agent-context

A Java guide for choosing how dev.axllm:ax agents handle context, which is the information supplied during a run. It distinguishes temporary run context, long-context policies, offline optimization, and memory recall.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing Java agents that need context maps, context policies, ACE or GEPA optimization, long-context handling, or memory recall.
Why use it?
It helps prevent using the wrong mechanism for shortening a current run, improving prompts, or retrieving information from a persistent collection.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 490 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 70% 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 $0.00045 $0.00490
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00245
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00049

Measured today against content hash 960e64e589ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ax-java-agent-context 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.

Origin

This is a copy

70% identical to ax-cpp-refine — 29 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/java/skills/ax-java-agent-context/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

AxAgent Context Selection For Java

This skill helps an agent write Java code with the generated Ax package dev.axllm:ax. Use the generated package API, examples, and manifests; do not import TypeScript-only APIs unless you are editing the TypeScript package.

When To Use

  • Choose between contextMap, contextPolicy, optimization, and recall for a task.
  • Avoid mixing persistent corpus orientation with within-run compaction.
  • Route long-context agent work to the right generated-package feature.

Package Facts

  • Language: Java.
  • Package: dev.axllm:ax.
  • 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-quickjs, python-pyodide.

Core Pattern

AxAgent helper = Ax.agent("question:string -> answer:string", java.util.Map.of());
var out = helper.forward(llm, java.util.Map.of("question", "How should I proceed?"));

Relevant API Surface

  • Agents And RLM: Ax.agent, AxAgent
  • Runtime Profiles: ProcessCodeRuntime, RuntimeCapabilities, RuntimeEnvelope, javascript-quickjs, python-pyodide
  • Optimizers: Ax.optimize, Ax.playbook, AxPlaybook, AxBootstrapFewShot, AxGEPA, OptimizerEngine, 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. today Changed 960e64e589ca
  2. 2d ago First seen · 46 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A ce2febe70f08

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ax-java-agent-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository ax-llm/ax (2,890 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 490 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 70% identical to ax-cpp-refine, differing in 29 lines, and is treated as a copy.