CODEXIS AI Agent Documentation

A building-block toolkit you bend to fit your legal practice — plugins, agents, skills, applications and automations.

This section serves as both client and implementation documentation for the CODEXIS AI Agent — from the user manual through the platform description, capabilities and reference architecture to frequently asked questions and the changelog.

The description in this section reflects the current reference architecture and product direction of the CODEXIS AI Agent. Specific sizing, integration scope and rollout details may be adjusted according to the client's target environment.

CODEXIS AI Agent is not a single application, but a building-block platform. Each piece has its purpose, and together they form an environment you can bend exactly to your agenda — from a solo attorney to a legal department with dozens of people.

The five building blocks

Plugins

Packages that extend CODEXIS AI. They provide skills, agents and applications. Installed from sources (the marketplace).

Agents

Autonomous AI personas with their own instructions. A Markdown file that describes how they should work.

Skills

Modular know-how. A folder with SKILL.md and accompanying files — templates, samples, checklists.

Applications

UI components from plugins that run directly inside CODEXIS. A custom interface for narrowly defined tasks.

Automations

Scheduled tasks that launch an agent at a given time or periodically. A CRON for your legal agenda.

How it all fits together

flowchart LR
  M[Marketplace / Sources] --> D[Plugin]
  D --> A[Agent]
  D --> S[Skill]
  D --> AP[Application]
  A --> AU[Automation]
  S --> A
  AP --> A

A plugin is the distribution wrapper. From the marketplace you download one or more components out of it.
An agent drives the run of a task. It chooses which skills to use on its own.
A skill is an isolated piece of know-how — one skill = one topic.
An application is a custom UI that can be launched outside the chat dialog.
An automation launches an agent without you (at 7:00 a.m., every Monday…).

Custom and from a plugin

For both agents and skills we distinguish custom ones (created by you, stored in the working directory) and plugin ones (delivered by a plugin). They work the same, they just differ in their source:

Custom ones you can edit at any time with the editor inside CODEXIS.
Plugin ones you update together with the plugin — you get improvements automatically.