Axe
Axe is a lightweight, open-source (Apache-2.0) CLI for running single-purpose LLM agents the way Unix treats programs: small, focused, and composable. Each agent is a TOML config with a system prompt, model selection, skills, and a working directory; you trigger it from the terminal, pipe data in (git diff | axe run reviewer), and get results out. Agents can delegate to sub-agents, keep persistent memory across runs, and enforce token budgets. Built in Go with minimal dependencies, Axe supports Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, OpenCode, and AWS Bedrock, plus MCP servers for extra tools. It is designed to be composed with standard tooling — cron, git hooks, pipes, file watchers — rather than reinventing orchestration, and sandboxes file operations to the working directory with SSRF protection. Pre-built binaries and Docker images make it easy to drop into CI or self-hosted agent pipelines. Axe is for developers who want deterministic, scriptable agents without a heavy framework.
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