# Stax

> Agent-first audit of your AI coding setup. You install a skill stub once with `npx -y stax-agent install`, then in your agent's chat (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, …) you say "run a stax audit". The agent invokes the CLI, reads the inspector prompt it prints, inspects the project with its own tools, POSTs a snapshot to stax.sh, and gets back a scored result with skill links that close each failing check. No local inspection runs in the CLI itself.

Stax runs an 11-item agentic-setup checklist (sandbox, lint/typecheck/format, and seven knowledge-file checks). The qualitative read happens inside your own agent using the subscription you already pay for; the server maps each failing check to a remediation skill. Secrets, emails, and absolute home paths are redacted before upload.

## Audit

- [Run an audit](https://stax.sh/): Install the skill stub, then ask your agent for an audit. The homepage walks through the flow.

## Getting started

- [Introduction](https://stax.sh/docs): What `stax-agent` is and how it works.
- [Install as a skill](https://stax.sh/docs/install-as-skill): Recommended. Wire `stax-agent` into your agent as a `.claude/skills/stax/SKILL.md` discovery stub so it runs whenever you ask, and automatically before non-routine shipping actions.
- [Quick start](https://stax.sh/docs/quick-start): Install the skill, then ask your agent to "run a stax audit".
- [Installation](https://stax.sh/docs/installation): The skill stub is the only setup; this page covers the optional global pin and the manual-paste fallback. Requires Node 20+.

## Commands

- [audit (default)](https://stax.sh/docs/commands/audit): What your agent invokes when you ask for an audit. Prints the inspector prompt; the agent reads it next.
- [skills](https://stax.sh/docs/commands/skills): List and print audit-linked skills (`skills list`, `skills get <key>`, `--json`).
- [install](https://stax.sh/docs/commands/install): Write the SKILL.md stub. Supports `--global` and `--force`. The one command you run yourself.
- [doctor](https://stax.sh/docs/commands/doctor): Diagnose Node version, git on PATH, and network reachability of stax.sh.

## Optional

- [About](https://stax.sh/about): Editorial point of view.
- [Privacy](https://stax.sh/privacy): What gets uploaded and what stays local.
- [CLI source](https://github.com/iraritchiemeek/mcp-stacks/tree/main/packages/cli): GitHub repository for the CLI.