CLI reference

The axm command discovers the three axm.tools entries shipped by axm-init. There is no separate axm-init executable.

Command	Contract
`axm init_scaffold`	Project, research and protocol scaffolding
`axm init_check`	Context-aware governance checks
`axm init_reserve`	PyPI placeholder reservation

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axm --help
axm --version
axm init_scaffold --help
axm init_check --help
axm init_reserve --help

axm --version reports the shared AXM package version, not the axm-init version. Its output is a version string (for example 0.8.0).

Use long parameter names such as --author and --category. The generated CLI does not declare the old short aliases (-a, -c, -o, and so on). Booleans also have negative forms, such as --no-preview. The first path or name argument can be positional; use named options for the remaining arguments.

A tool failure produces exit code 1 and an error on stderr. Parsing failures may instead exit 2. --json-output selects structured stdout; stderr and the exit status remain separate. Do not assume every error uses the same JSON shape: consult the command reference.

See Python entry points and MCP usage.