# auxfirst — Agentic Experience Design

> Canonical: https://auxfirst.com/
> Markdown representation of the auxfirst homepage, for agents and LLM crawlers.

auxfirst is an **Agentic Experience Design (AUX)** agency. We design AI systems that **remember, adapt, and earn trust** — for product, developer, and leadership teams building agents in 2026.

Where classic UX designs for discrete tasks, AUX designs for relationships. Trust isn't a feature in this world — it's the product.

## What we do

Three practices, one discipline:

- **Agentic API Experience** — agent-first developer experience: tool-calling architecture, MCP integration, consequence-aware action layers. AX, the new DX. https://auxfirst.com/agentic-experience-center/agentic-api-experience.html
- **AI Product Experience** — the product surface humans actually trust: intent handshakes, confidence cues, escape hatches, memory in motion. https://auxfirst.com/agentic-experience-center/ai-product-experience.html
- **Agent Process Design** — turning a workflow into a defensible agentic service: autonomy boundaries, escalation paths, audit trails. https://auxfirst.com/agentic-experience-center/agent-process-design.html

## How we work

- **Executive Seminar** — align leadership on what agentic systems mean.
- **Team Workshop** — translate AUX patterns into your product context.
- **Agent Experience Audit** — diagnose where a shipped AI product breaks trust.
- **Blueprint Sprint** — three weeks to a build-ready agent-first specification.
- **Advisory Retainer** — ongoing support as the agentic surface evolves.

Engagements: https://auxfirst.com/index.html#engagements

## The canon (open, CC BY 4.0)

- Manifesto — https://auxfirst.com/manifesto.md
- Services — https://auxfirst.com/services.md
- The 6 AUX Patterns — https://auxfirst.com/patterns.md
- The 10 AUX Heuristics — https://auxfirst.com/heuristics.md
- Knowledge base — https://auxfirst.com/knowledge.md
- TrustKit (open-source YAML schemas) — https://github.com/auxfirst/trustkit

## Machine-readable discovery

- LLM guide — https://auxfirst.com/llms.txt
- Capabilities — https://auxfirst.com/capabilities.json
- Agent skills — https://auxfirst.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json
- API catalog — https://auxfirst.com/.well-known/api-catalog
- MCP discovery card — https://auxfirst.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json

## Who it's for

Product teams, engineering and platform teams, executive leadership, holding-company strategy, ad agencies and media buyers, family offices, and legacy SaaS teams retrofitting toward agent-first.

## Contact

Start a project: https://auxfirst.com/index.html#contact
Newsletter: https://auxfirst.substack.com/

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