# ax-audit

Audits agentic products across 24 architecture and trust rules. It checks tool execution, approval gates, and cancellation signals before shipping.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 523 installs · ★ 163
- Author: mblode
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mblode/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/ax-audit/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
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## What it does

This skill reviews product surfaces where an agent acts on behalf of the user. It inspects chat interfaces, tool execution, configurations, and dashboards. The audit relies on two rule layers: 11 architectural checks in `rules-arch/` and 13 experience checks in `rules-ax/`. Running it against plain forms without agent features is pointless, because standard CRUD interfaces do not need agent-level trust rules.

The workflow supports both pull request diffs and full sweeps across explicit paths. In PR mode, it evaluates changes alongside touched orchestrators and tool definitions. It also looks for false affordances. For instance, a stop button must call `AbortController.abort()`. If closing a client stream leaves server-side tools running, the audit flags a `control-no-escape-hatch` failure.

Findings receive one of three severity tiers: `release-blocker`, `fix-this-sprint`, or `backlog`. A single blocker results in a NOT READY verdict. Alongside code findings, the skill outputs an AX Relationship Summary for designers and product managers, detailing the current trust signal and the primary interaction gap.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill ax-audit -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/ax-audit/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/ax-audit/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill ax-audit -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/ax-audit/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill ax-audit -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/ax-audit/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mblode/agent-skills ax-audit
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/ax-audit/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill ax-audit -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mblode/agent-skills --path skills/ax-audit
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/ax-audit/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mblode/agent-skills --skill ax-audit -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/mblode/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/ax-audit/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- detect missing approval gates on sensitive agent tool executions
- catch stop buttons that fail to cancel server-side tool loops
- check feature parity between UI actions and agent tool definitions
- generate a ship-readiness verdict with prioritized issue tiers

## Example prompts
- Run an AX audit on this PR branch to check agent tool executions
- Audit our agent approval flow and verify the cancellation escape hatch
- Run a full ax-audit across the agent orchestration code and produce the relationship summary

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: ax-audit
description: Audits agentic products for tool parity, authority, approval payloads, recovery, and trust using 24 rules and a ship verdict. Use when asked for an "AX audit", to review an agent approval flow, or whether an agent can operate the product.
---

# 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`); public site or docs agent scores (use `agent-ready`); 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](#audit-workflow)
- [Two rule layers](#two-rule-layers)
- [Tiers and verdict](#tiers-and-verdict)
- [AX Relationship Summary](#ax-relationship-summary)
- [Reference files](#reference-files)
- [Gotchas](#gotchas)
- [Audit self-check](#audit-self-check)
- [Related skills](#related-skills)

## Audit workflow

```text
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.

Rule greps name the most common identifiers, not every framework's spelling. When a grep misses in code that plainly does the thing (a gate, a stream, a tool result), check `references/framework-signals.md` for the stack's name for it before recording `unknown`.

## Two rule layers

| Layer | Folder | Rules | Load when a playbook names |
|---|---|---|---|
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