# AX

Concept · [Building with AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai)

Also called: agent experience, A X, agent UX

Agent experience: how well a project is set up for an [AI agent](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai-agent) to do good work, with a clear structure, [automated checks](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/automated-check) that catch mistakes and [instructions](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/prompt) that do not waste its context. It is to agents what [developer experience](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/dx) is to people, and it matters most when nobody is watching.

**For example:** A team adds tests that run in seconds and a short [AGENTS.md](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/agents-md), and its [agents](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai-agent) start finishing tasks without getting stuck.

## Connects to (6)

- [DX](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/dx): Developer experience: how easy and pleasant a tool, codebase or service is for the people who build with it, such as clear documentation…
- [Agent environment](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/agent-environment): Everything outside the agent's own software that it can look at or change: your files, terminal, browser, databases and connected services.
- [Automated check](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/automated-check): A test or rule a computer runs to catch problems without a person looking, such as tests, type checkers and style checkers.
- [AGENTS.md](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/agents-md): A plain text file in a project that many coding agents read automatically at the start of every session.
- [Coding agent](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/coding-agent): An AI agent that writes and changes code.
- [AFK](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/afk): Short for away from keyboard.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ax