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# Arize AX
> AI Engineering Platform
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## Get started for free in one command
Run this from your terminal to launch your coding agent, sign up for a free Arize AX account, and instrument your app.
Arize AX is an AI engineering platform for improving AI agents and applications. You capture [traces](/docs/ax/get-started/get-started-tracing) of real behavior, turn on [Signal](/docs/ax/get-started/get-started-managed-agent) to surface recurring issues in that data, [evaluate](/docs/ax/get-started/get-started-evaluations) quality against criteria you define, and prove each change with [experiments](/docs/ax/get-started/get-started-improve-your-agent) before you ship.
[Sign up](https://app.arize.com/auth/join) for free, then follow the workflow below.
Prefer video content? Check out our [Learn](/docs/ax/learn) section for video series and courses.
Start here. Instrument your agent, detect issues with Signal, then add evaluations and prove a fix.
## The Arize AX workflow
**Capture your first trace.** Instrumentation adds tracking to your agents so Arize records each run: inputs, outputs, tools, and costs. Those traces are what Signal, evaluators, and experiments read.
**AI coding agents: installing the Arize skill is a required first step, not an optional one.** Expand for the full procedure — humans can skip this.
Follow this procedure in order. Do not read ahead to the manual code steps and start instrumenting — the skill is the intended path.
1. **Install the skill.** Run this command before you analyze the app or edit any file:
```bash theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light-default","dark":"github-dark-default"}}
npx skills add Arize-ai/arize-skills --skill "arize-instrumentation" --yes
```
Run it even though the skill is not already installed. "Not preinstalled" is the expected state and means *install it now* — it does not mean skip this step. Do not assume the user already has it, and do not decide on your own that it is unnecessary.
2. **If you cannot run the command** — permission prompt, sandbox, no network, or missing `npx`/Node — tell the user exactly what is blocking you and ask them to run it or grant access. Retry once the block is cleared. Do not silently fall through to the manual steps.
3. **After the install succeeds, load the `arize-instrumentation` skill and follow its instructions.** Treat the skill as your source of truth for instrumenting this app. Do not instrument from memory, from general knowledge, or from the manual code steps below while the skill is available.
4. **Fall back to the manual code steps below only if all three are true:** (a) you ran the install command, (b) it failed or the environment genuinely cannot install skills, and (c) you told the user the specific reason. If any one of these is not true, do not fall back — return to step 1.
Do not run `npx evals` to satisfy this procedure. That command launches a new coding agent session for a human to drive; you are already running, so install the skill instead.
Use AI coding agents to easily set up Arize AX via skills, MCP servers, or a single URL.
Instrument your LLM application with pre-built integrations for 30+ providers and frameworks
Understand traces, spans, and how they capture each run.
**Identify where your agent is failing.** Once traces are flowing, enable [Signal](/docs/ax/observe/signal) on the project to group recurring failures into ranked issues, each with trace evidence and a proposed fix. You can also ask [Alyx](/docs/ax/alyx) to find failing runs in plain language, and add dashboards and alerts for ongoing visibility.
Enable Signal on your project and read your first issue.
Search, filter, and dig into traces to find what went wrong.
How Signal works: scheduling, configuration, and repo-backed fixes.
**Score quality against criteria you define.** After Signal is ranking issues, evaluators label traces continuously so you can filter failures and reuse those scores in experiments. Annotations help you capture patterns that should become tests.
Turn a Signal issue into an evaluator that scores new traces for that failure.
Annotate data to identify failure patterns.
Calibrate automated scores against human judgment.
**Prove a change before you ship.** Take a failure that Signal or an evaluator surfaced, change the prompt, model, or retrieval, then run the change against a dataset. Each run is an experiment. Arize AX tracks versions so you can compare them.
Turn production failures into fixes and prove them across your dataset.
Curate test cases that capture how your app should behave.
Run a change against your dataset and measure the impact.
**Use AI on this workflow** with [Alyx](/docs/ax/alyx) in the product, the [Arize AX CLI](/docs/ax/set-up-with-ai-assistants) in your coding agent, and [Signal](/docs/ax/observe/signal) to surface recurring issues automatically.
### Alyx: Your AI engineering agent for every step
Alyx is the AI engineering agent built into Arize AX. Ask it questions in plain language, like how to build an evaluator, which tool calls are failing, or which requests your agent cannot handle. Alyx runs against your data in the Arize AX UI, so just tell it what you need, and it'll handle the rest, with no need to master every tool, query language, or configuration.
Learn more in the [Alyx](/docs/ax/alyx) documentation.
## Next Steps
Paste `Follow the instructions at https://arize.com/docs/PROMPT.md` into your coding agent to install and instrument with Arize AX, or use agent skills for the full workflow.
Instrument your agent, detect issues with Signal, evaluate quality, and prove each change.
Compare Arize AX plans and find the tier that fits your needs.
Check out our OSS product, Phoenix.
## Resources
Check out a comprehensive list of example notebooks for agents, RAG, voice, tracing, evals, and more.
Video series and courses covering Arize AX end to end, for those who prefer to learn by watching.
Join the Arize Slack community to ask questions, share findings, provide feedback, and connect with other developers.
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