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ax from mxyhi/ok-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mxyhi/ok-skills/ax@git:20260731.b493166Pins git:20260731.b493166 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mxyhi/ok-skills
- Path
ax/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260731.b493166, committed Jul 31, 2026
- Size
- 3,698 bytes
- Repository stars
- 500
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use the ax CLI instead of curl + throwaway parsing scripts whenever you fetch a URL, explore an unknown web page, or extract structured data from HTML. Trigger whenever you are about to write an inline script (python3 heredoc, node -e, regex over HTML) or a bare curl for one-off web fetching, scraping, or page exploration.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# ax — the AI-era curl: fetch, discover, extract
One command: `ax <url|file|-> [selector] [flags]`. Never write regex over
HTML, and never use bare curl (it returns nothing on empty bodies).
## Cheatsheet
```sh
ax https://api.site.example/users # {status, ok, url, redirected, ms, headers, body}
ax https://api.site.example/users -H 'authorization: Bearer x' -X POST -d '{"a":1}'
ax https://api.site.example/users -d @payload.json # @file reads it, implies POST; --data-raw = literal @string
# curl reflexes work: -u -I -o -k -m -f --data-raw (and -L/-i/-s are no-ops)
ax https://site.example --outline # discover: repeating structures
ax https://site.example --locate 'some text' # discover: which selector holds this
ax https://site.example '.card' --count # confirm a hypothesis
ax https://site.example '.card' --row 'title=a, href=a@href, id=@data-id'
ax https://site.example '.private' -H 'authorization: Bearer x' --text
ax https://site.example 'table' --table --where 'Stars >= 30000'
ax https://site.example 'table' --table --where '`Col With Spaces` ~ /x/'
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mxyhi/ok-skills/ax@sha256:4acbbc5574e36a21The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260731.b493166, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 31, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3698 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
mxyhi/ok-skills · 500 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6qhgvdyhjdtqbc7d GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mxyhi/ok-skills/ax GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4acbbc5574e36a21c27fbc3099cc40638e074e7cada674e00d23698cef34d37c
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.