ax-extract-workflow

ax Extract Workflow

Overview

Use this skill to reconstruct the workflow behind a past coding-agent artifact: a shipped feature, PR, demo, refactor, report, or other concrete result. It uses the local ax graph to connect commits, sessions, turns, skills, and tool traces into a short "how this got made" narrative.

ax must be installed, available on PATH, and able to reach its local database. If ax cannot connect to its DB, report the connection failure and stop instead of guessing from memory.

When to Use This Skill

• Use when the user asks "how did we build X?", "what made X work?", or "extract the workflow behind this artifact."
• Use when the anchor is a commit SHA, date, feature name, PR, session, or repo-local artifact.
• Use when the user wants the sequence of agent skills, prompts, commands, decisions, and checks that led to a result.
• Do not use for a generic activity summary; use normal session listing instead.

How It Works

Step 1: Resolve the Anchor

Identify the best anchor from the user's request:

• Commit SHA: use it directly.
• Date or date range: inspect sessions around the date.
• Topic, feature, or artifact name: search recall for related turns, commits, and skills.
• "This repo recently": list recent sessions for the current repo.

ax recall "live ingest dashboard" --sources=turn,commit,skill --scope=here
ax sessions near a