ax-extract-workflow

ax-extract-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,377 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow reconstruction tool that uses local ax session records, commits, skills, and tool traces to explain how a past coding result was made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reconstruct how a feature, pull request, report, refactor, or other repository result was produced from a commit, date, session, or topic.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with a trace-based account of the prompts, commands, decisions, checks, and changes behind a feature or other artifact.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to reconstruct how a feature, pull request, report, refactor, or other repository result was produced from a commit, date, session, or topic.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/ax-extract-workflow
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,230 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill ax-extract-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,377 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00035 $0.01377
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00688
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00138

Measured 5d ago against content hash f423501e5a74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ax-extract-workflow 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 5d 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

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/ax-extract-workflow/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ax Extract Workflow

Overview

Use this skill to reconstruct the workflow behind a past coding-agent artifact: a shipped feature, PR, demo, refactor, report, or other concrete result. It uses the local ax graph to connect commits, sessions, turns, skills, and tool traces into a short "how this got made" narrative.

ax must be installed, available on PATH, and able to reach its local database. If ax cannot connect to its DB, report the connection failure and stop instead of guessing from memory.

When to Use This Skill

  • Use when the user asks "how did we build X?", "what made X work?", or "extract the workflow behind this artifact."
  • Use when the anchor is a commit SHA, date, feature name, PR, session, or repo-local artifact.
  • Use when the user wants the sequence of agent skills, prompts, commands, decisions, and checks that led to a result.
  • Do not use for a generic activity summary; use normal session listing instead.

How It Works

Step 1: Resolve the Anchor

Identify the best anchor from the user's request:

  • Commit SHA: use it directly.
  • Date or date range: inspect sessions around the date.
  • Topic, feature, or artifact name: search recall for related turns, commits, and skills.
  • "This repo recently": list recent sessions for the current repo.
ax recall "live ingest dashboard" --sources=turn,commit,skill --scope=here
ax sessions near abc1234 --json
ax sessions around 2026-06-15 --days=3 --json
ax sessions here --days=14

These commands are read-only inspection commands.

Step 2: Pick Relevant Sessions

Choose the few sessions most likely to explain the artifact. Prefer sessions that mention the artifact, touch related files, include relevant commits, or have skills and tool calls that match the work.

If several candidates are plausible, show the user the candidates and ask which one to inspect.

Step 3: Inspect the Session Trail

Open each selected session and look for:

  • skills used and their order
  • user steering points and clarified constraints
  • files, tests, and commands that changed the direction of the work
  • subagent or tool traces that produced key evidence
  • verification steps before the result was considered done

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 5d ago First seen · 157 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A f423501e5a74

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ax-extract-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,230 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,377 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-05.