ax-audit

ax-audit is a skill for Claude Code from mblode/agent-skills. It costs 75 tokens per session (2,735 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process for applications in which an AI agent acts on a user’s behalf. It checks the agent’s tools, context, completion signals, approval steps, confidence cues, memory visibility, and ways for users to regain control.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess agent chats, tool execution panels, agent settings, and dashboards, and to produce a ship-readiness verdict with a summary of the user-agent relationship.
Why use it?
It identifies design and architecture problems that can make an agent unreliable, confusing, or difficult to trust.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 26 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess agent chats, tool execution panels, agent settings, and dashboards, and to produce a ship-readiness verdict with a summary of the user-agent relationship.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mblode/agent-skills/ax-audit
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ax-audit

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,735 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 100
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00075 $0.02735
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01367
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00547
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00274

Measured 2d ago against content hash 99056c8b0743, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ax-audit 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 2d ago.

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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • ax-audit — 88% identical, 107 lines differ
skills/ax-audit/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AX Audit

Feature-level reviewer for apps where an agent acts for the user. One question: does it earn trust, and where does it break?

  • IS: rules-based audit of agentic surfaces (chat, tool execution, config, dashboards) across architecture (rules-arch/) and trust (rules-ax/), ending in a ship-readiness verdict plus an AX Relationship Summary.
  • IS NOT: traditional frontend UX (use ui-design Audit mode); developer-facing API, CLI, or type ergonomics (use dx-audit); agent instruction files (use agents-md); what the product should do before it exists (use product-design).

No agentic features in scope? Stop. AX rules against forms and lists are noise.

Contents

Audit workflow

AX Audit progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Scope, via the diff against the PR base merge-base (PR mode) or explicit path (full sweep)
- [ ] Step 2: Detect agentic features per references/feature-playbooks.md
- [ ] Step 3: Run each detected feature's playbook in order, plus the diff-wide checks (PR mode only)
- [ ] Step 4: For each check, load the rule file and follow its detection recipe
- [ ] Step 5: Tier each finding per references/ship-readiness.md (rule override table wins)
- [ ] Step 6: Render verdict + findings + AX Relationship Summary per references/output-format.md
- [ ] Step 7: Run the audit self-check and report its evidence counts

PR-mode scope is the diff plus the tool definitions and orchestrator it touches. Findings in untouched files belong in a full sweep, not this verdict. Playbook annotations are a scan copy; the rule file is authoritative. parity-orphan-ui-action runs on every PR-mode audit and never in a full sweep, where there is no diff for it to read.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

Files

What ships with it

40 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago Changed · -51 tokens per session 99056c8b0743
  2. 8d ago First seen · 129 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A fcb90542c539

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ax-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository mblode/agent-skills (105 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 2,735 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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