ax-java-flow

A Java coding guide for building flows: workflows made from connected steps, agents, and smaller nested workflows, using the dev.axllm:ax package.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create workflow graphs, connect generators and agents, build nested programs, and add provider-backed Java flows.
Why use it?
It helps organize multi-step programs, track what each step reads and produces, and handle options, caching, and errors consistently.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,038 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 81% 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 $0.00038 $0.01038
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00519
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00104

Measured today against content hash b3696653f070, 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-flow 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

81% identical to ax-cpp-flow — 79 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-flow/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AxFlow 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

  • Compose generators, agents, and nested flows into a workflow graph.
  • Reason about flow state, node inputs, returns, caching, and errors.
  • Use generated package examples for flow graphs and provider-backed flows.

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

AxGen draft = Ax.ax("topicText:string -> draftText:string");
AxFlow wf = Ax.flow(java.util.Map.of("id", "docs.coreFlow"))
    .execute("draft", draft, java.util.Map.of(
        "reads", java.util.List.of("topicText"),
        "writes", java.util.List.of("draftResult", "draftText")))
    .returns(java.util.Map.of("draftText", "draftText"));

More Patterns

Typed programs

Build each flow node from its own input/output contract.

AxGen classifier = Ax.ax("requestText:string -> route:class \"support, sales, engineering\"");
AxGen responder = Ax.ax("requestText:string, route:string -> responseText:string");

Class decision

Declare reads and writes so the responder waits for the typed route.

AxFlow branchFlow = Ax.flow(Map.of("id", "docs.branchFlow"))
    .execute("classifier", classifier, Map.of("reads", List.of("requestText"), "writes", List.of("classifierResult", "route")))
    .execute("responder", responder, Map.of("reads", List.of("requestText", "route"), "writes", List.of("responderResult", "responseText")))
    .returns(Map.of("route", "route", "responseText", "responseText"));

Parallel fan-out and join

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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 b3696653f070
  2. 3d ago First seen · 104 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 7dfabec2dbc9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ax-java-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository ax-llm/ax (2,890 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,038 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to ax-cpp-flow, differing in 79 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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