ax-python-ai

Guidance for writing Python code with the axllm package, which connects applications to language models from different providers. It covers model selection, provider settings, routing, multimodal requests, and scripted or real network calls.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating Python language-model clients, configuring credentials and deployment profiles, making OpenAI-compatible, Gemini, or Anthropic calls, and routing requests across models.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose the right model and connection setup without mixing provider-specific interfaces or confusing a deployment name with a model name.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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

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Grade A, and why

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Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to ax-cpp-ai — 19 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/python/skills/ax-python-ai/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AxAI Providers For Python

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

When To Use

  • Create provider clients or normalize provider options.
  • Choose a named deployment profile separately from the model ID served by that deployment.
  • Attach renewable per-request credentials for expiring cloud tokens.
  • Resolve structured-output modes from the selected profile and model.
  • Choose between model-list routing, ordered failover, and adaptive operational routing.
  • Route multimodal requests without flattening native images when the selected provider supports them.
  • Use scripted transports for deterministic no-key examples.
  • Use provider-api examples only when explicit provider credentials are available.

Package Facts

  • Language: Python.
  • Package: axllm.
  • 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

import os
from axllm import ai

llm = ai("openai", api_key=os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"])

Named Deployment Profiles

  • The first ai / NewAI factory argument selects deployment behavior. The model option selects a model only inside that deployment; never infer request rules from a vendor-looking model ID.
  • openai is the official OpenAI deployment. openai-compatible is the conservative custom-endpoint profile and requires an explicit base URL. Unknown profile names are errors.
  • A Together-hosted DeepSeek model uses the together profile's URL, authentication, reasoning fields, and effort mapping. Native DeepSeek thinking fields apply only to the deepseek profile.
  • Verified DeepSeek, Grok, Groq, Cerebras, and DeepInfra model rules default an omitted thinking level to logical max, mapped to the strongest documented deployment effort.
  • Send none only where the selected deployment and model document reasoning disablement. Unsupported levels fail before network I/O; dynamic Hugging Face Router routes remain conservative.
  • Structured output is an ordered model-aware capability: native, function, and json_object. Exact caller model metadata overrides the first matching profile rule, which overrides the profile default.
  • An explicit unsupported structured-output mode fails before transport. structuredOutputs / structured_outputs remains the compatibility alias for native JSON Schema only.
  • The exact Vertex google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-maas rule prefers json_object, excludes native schema, defaults thinking to max, writes nested enable_thinking, and extracts/replays reasoning_content. Unknown Vertex models stay conservative.
  • Use named factories for Azure OpenAI, Cohere, DeepSeek, DeepSeek Responses, Mistral, Reka, Grok, routers, hosted inference, and configurable runtimes. Profile-only branded client constructors were removed.
  • Retained client classes are transport/runtime boundaries: OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, Anthropic Messages, and Gemini GenerateContent. Build ordinary applications through the named factory.
  • Provider descriptors and conformance fixtures are generated from the shared profile manifest. Do not add provider-name switches or cross-profile model normalization in a generated package.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

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ax-python-ai 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 1,711 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to ax-cpp-ai, differing in 19 lines, and is treated as a copy.