ax-python-ai

ax-python-ai is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ax-llm/ax. It costs 45 tokens per session (6,438 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ax-cpp-ai, Apache-2.0.

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.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit 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.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ax-llm/ax/ax-python-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 · 2,967 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-python-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 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,438 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.
Origin 86% 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 $0.06438
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.02575
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.01288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00644

Measured yesterday against content hash 1b8cd7fa6ae8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ax-python-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 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

86% identical to ax-cpp-ai — 33 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 · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 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 or files 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"])

Decision evidence

Add (evidence) to boolean/class/score/box signature outputs to retain probabilities, values, provenance, and native class/score confidence through AxGen. Boolean threshold 0.7 is local to that field; scalar fields still use provider trueThreshold. A plain score returns a continuous zero-based rubric index.

Native selected classes and continuous scores are preserved, even when they differ from argmax or a weighted mean. Generative providers elicit probabilities, derive values locally, omit confidence, and use provenance.source=elicited. Ax attaches actual provider/model provenance. The result shape does not make confidence or calibration comparable across models.

Read the full file on GitHub · 194 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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ax-python-ai is a skill published in the GitHub repository ax-llm/ax (2,967 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 6,438 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to ax-cpp-ai, differing in 33 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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