Axi includes pricing or quota commentary. At roughly 1,612 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.
Axi sits in the Engineering category under the devops sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.
These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.
AXI is not a protocol. It is 10 design principles for agent-ergonomic CLIs that beat both raw CLI and MCP on success, cost, duration, and turns ([axi.md](https://axi.md), [kunchenguid/axi](https://github.com/kunchenguid/axi)).
Axi is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the devops sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/axi/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use whenever the agent needs GitHub, browser automation, human review, quota routing, Slack, Notion, AWS/Docker/K8s, databases, or any AXI-catalog tool; when choosing AXI vs MCP vs raw CLI; when building or reviewing an agent-facing CLI; or when the user says axi, gh-axi, chrome-devtools-axi, TOON output, agent ergonomics, or "prefer AXI". When in doubt about which external tool interface to use, start here.
The Axi Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 163,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/axi curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/axi/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/axi/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/axi/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/axi/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\axi\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/axi/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Axi is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{axi-2026,
author = {MoizIbnYousaf},
title = {Axi [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/axi/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-07-28 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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