We’re building an open-source AI coding agent, what would make you trust it?

Our team is currently building AX Code, an open-source AI coding agent.

The motivation is pretty simple:

AI coding agents are becoming extremely capable, but we're wondering whether companies should have to choose between:

powerful AI coding

and software they can actually inspect and control

We're building AX Code as a 100% open-source alternative.

But we don't want to assume that "open source" automatically means trustworthy.

So we'd like to hear from developers who actually use AI coding agents:

What would you want to inspect or verify before running an open-source AI coding agent inside your development environment?

And if you're interested, we'd love for you to test what we're building and tell us where it falls short.

AX Code: https://ax-code.app/en/

We're still developing it, so we're looking for criticism and real-world feedback rather than a polished product review.