Output Formats

Output Formats

The public build supports three output formats. Analysis runs Agent Architecture and OpenClaw Architecture; results and violations come from those metrics.

Console (Default)

Human-readable terminal output with colors and formatting.

arxo analyze

Output:

🔍 Analyzing project...
✓ Agent architecture analyzed
✓ OpenClaw architecture analyzed

📊 Results:

┌─────────────────────────────────────┬─────────┬──────────┐
│ Metric                               │ Value   │ Status   │
├─────────────────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┤
│ agent_architecture.overall_agent_health │ 0.72   │ ✓ Good   │
│ agent_architecture.governance_readiness │ 85     │ ✓ Good   │
│ openclaw_architecture.overall_openclaw_health │ 68   │ ✓ Good   │
└─────────────────────────────────────┴─────────┴──────────┘

✅ No policy violations

Features

• Color-coded status (green/yellow/red)
• Progress indicators
• Summary tables
• Violation details with file locations

Quiet Mode

Suppress progress output:

arxo analyze --quiet

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JSON

Machine-readable format for CI/CD and tooling integration.

arxo analyze --format json --output report.json

Structure

{
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "timestamp": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z",
  "project_path": "/path/to/project",
  "config": {
    "metrics": ["agent_architecture", "openclaw_architecture"],
    "policy": { "invariants": [...] }
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "agent_architecture",
      "name": "Agent Architecture",
      "values": {
        "agent_architecture.overall_agent_health": 0.72,
        "agent_architecture.governance_readiness": 85
      },
      "evidence": [],
      "status": "good"
    },
    {
      "id": "openclaw_architecture",
      "name": "OpenClaw Architecture",
      "values": { "openclaw_architecture.overall_openclaw_health": 68 },
      "evidence": [],
      "status": "good"
    }
  ],
  "violations": []
}

Key Fields

Field	Description
results	Array of metric results with values
violations	Policy violations with file locations
evidence	Specific findings with context

Usage Examples

Extract agent architecture result:

jq '.results[] | select(.id=="agent_architecture")' report.json

Count violations:

jq '.violations | length' report.json

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HTML

Interactive web report with visualizations and drill-down capabilities.

arxo analyze --format html --output report.html

Features

• Interactive tables — Sort, filter, search
• Graph visualizations — Visual dependency graphs
• Drill-down details — Click metrics for evidence
• Responsive design — Works on mobile
• Self-contained — Single HTML file, no dependencies

Opening Reports

# Generate report
arxo analyze --format html --output report.html

# Open in browser
open report.html       # macOS
xdg-open report.html  # Linux
start report.html     # Windows

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Comparison

Format	Use case	Output
Console	Default; terminal, CI	stdout
JSON	CI, tooling, APIs	stdout or file
HTML	Human review, sharing	file

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Output Location

Default (stdout)

arxo analyze --format json  # Prints to terminal

File Output

arxo analyze --format json --output report.json
arxo analyze --format html --output report.html

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Next Steps

• CLI Reference — Command options
• CI Integration — Use in pipelines
• Configuration Guide — Configure output
• OpenClaw Architecture — OpenClaw metric overview
• OpenClaw Keys and possible values — Full detector key contract