ax - the agent experience layer

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a feedback loop for your coding agent

Turn every agent session
into a better next run.

Built because we got tired of guessing what actually works.

ax watches every session your coding harness runs, spots the mistakes it repeats, and turns them into small, repo-specific fixes you review and apply — one at a time.

install in 30 seconds

paste it - your agent installs ax, labels your skills, and tells you which ones to actually use✓ Copied - paste into your coding agent for the guided setup

the loop, in your terminal

Your sessions, working for the next one.

Every session lands in one local graph your agent can reach back into — to catch a repeat mistake, replay a clean run, recover the moment a test fails, or grade the harness itself. Same loop, whatever you run it in.

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the pipeline · what feeds the graph

auto · paused

claude transcripts

~/.claude/projects

codex sessions

~/.codex/sessions

git + hook fires

repo + ~/.claude/hooks

typed local graph

surrealdb · 127.0.0.1

4,773

sessions ·

369,132

turns
FTS median

5.9ms

interventionsranked · safety-contracted · brief-only128 applied → agents

every event → typed graph → ranked interventions. local SurrealDB at 127.0.0.1. see /features for the schema →six forms: skill · guidance · subagent · hook · automation · harness_check

open source

If it shapes your agent, you should be able to fork it.

AGPL-3.0. Local-first. Typed end to end. Every signal lives in files and a database you own — no cloud, no lock-in. Commercial license available if you need it.

$gh repo clone Necmttn/ax

Cloned ax into ./ax

$cd ax && bun install

1 284 packages installed in 4.2s

$ax daemon start

ax dashboard → http://127.0.0.1:1738

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AGPL-3.0

Free & open · commercial license available

TypeScript

End-to-end, strictly typed

Local-first

SurrealDB on 127.0.0.1

Forkable

Hack the loop, ship a PR

Star on GitHub Fork the repo Join the Discord Read the docs

for teams

Free for your loop. Evidence for your team.

Everything above runs on your laptop, yours to fork. When you need to see how a whole team ships with AI — what’s spreading, what’s stuck, and what should become standard practice — that’s ax for teams.