setup

A setup guide for ax, an agent experience layer with a command-line tool, skills, a background service, and data ingestion. It covers installation and checks for whether ax is working.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install ax, install its skills, run its initial data ingestion, check its status, and troubleshoot the command-line tool or background service.
Why use it?
It helps resolve first-time setup problems and situations where the ax command or service is missing or unhealthy.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,826 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00112 $0.01826
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00913
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00183

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9fb12810cc7c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

setup scanned grade C with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Necmttn/ax/main/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Necmttn/ax/main/install.sh | bash
skills/setup/SKILL.md · 164 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 First seen · 164 lines · 112 tokens per session scan C 9fb12810cc7c

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setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository Necmttn/ax (104 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 1,826 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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