
AXF
AXF gives agents a structured way to discover and run workspace-specific capabilities like build, test, and validation commands without guessing which script to invoke. It exposes a single MCP tool that routes to operations including list, inspect, run, and scout_check, all backed by manifest-defined capabilities that encode how your codebase actually works. You'd reach for this when agents keep rebuilding the same brittle shell chains or searching for repo facts before every edit. It binds to a workspace via cwd or AXF_WORKSPACE, reloads registry state per request, and keeps governance in one place instead of letting raw shell access bypass your policies. Still alpha, personal-use license only.
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- last updated
- Oct 20, 2026
Tools
1 toolsPublic tool metadata for what this MCP can expose to an agent.
axfThe server exposes exactly one MCP tool named `axf`, which routes into AXF's existing capability surface for the bound workspace.
The server exposes exactly one MCP tool named `axf`, which routes into AXF's existing capability surface for the bound workspace.
No parameter schema in public metadata yet.
Sponsors
Configuration
AXF_PROJECT_ROOTCanonical AXF project root for manifest and adapter discovery. Defaults to current working directory when no marker is found.
AXF_EXECUTION_ROOTCanonical AXF execution root for runtime cwd and caller-facing execution. Defaults to current working directory.
AXF_WORKSPACELegacy alias that sets both the AXF project root and execution root.
AXF_REGISTRY_WORKSPACELegacy alias for AXF_PROJECT_ROOT.
AXF_EXECUTION_WORKSPACELegacy alias for AXF_EXECUTION_ROOT.
Readme
AXF
Fit the repository once. Let every agent follow the same paved path.
An agent can read your code. It still has to rediscover how this repository wants to be built, tested, searched, diagnosed, and operated. The clues are usually scattered across scripts, package tasks, prose, CI, and human memory.
AXF (Agent eXoskeleton Framework) turns that repeated local ceremony into small, self-describing capabilities. Fit the exoskeleton deliberately once; later agents can discover the right route, inspect its contract, and run it without rebuilding the procedure from scratch.
recurring repository ceremony
↓ fit once
inspectable AXF capabilities
↓ reuse
agent discovers → inspects → runs
AXF is a traffic cop, not a replacement vocabulary. It preserves a provider's existing command family by default, then projects or normalizes only the parts that need a clearer agent-facing contract. The goal is not to automate judgment. It is to spend less judgment on reconstructing the same route.
The five caller concepts
You do not need the framework vocabulary to use a fitted repository:
Details
- Repository
- github.com/smartergpt/axf
- Category
- AI & LLM Tools
- Package
@smartergpt/axf- Transport
- STDIO
- Registry
- MCP registry, active