graphify

A project rule for using Graphify, a knowledge graph that maps code symbols and their relationships, before exploring a codebase. It also requires updating that graph after code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when investigating code structure, tracing dependencies between symbols, explaining concepts, or keeping the project’s generated graph current.
Why use it?
It helps reveal dependencies and inferred connections that simple text searches may miss. This gives an agent architectural context before it reads or edits files.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mamahoos/dot-files/graphify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mamahoos/dot-files

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 294 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 294 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00294 $0.00294
Opus 5 $0.00147 $0.00147
Sonnet 5 $0.00059 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00029 $0.00029

Measured yesterday against content hash f8acb02fb5f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

graphify scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to graphify — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

home/.cursor/rules/graphify.mdc · 22 lines

What it actually says

This project has a graphify knowledge graph at graphify-out/.

MANDATORY: Before using Read, Grep, Glob, or Bash to explore the codebase, you MUST run graphify first:

  • graphify query "<question>" — scoped subgraph for any codebase or architecture question
  • graphify path "<A>" "<B>" — dependency path between two symbols
  • graphify explain "<concept>" — all nodes related to a concept

This applies to YOU and to every subagent you spawn. Include this rule explicitly in every subagent prompt that involves code exploration. Do not skip graphify because files are "already known" or because you are executing a plan — the graph surfaces cross-file dependencies and INFERRED edges that grep and Read cannot find.

Only use Read/Grep/Glob directly when:

  1. graphify has already oriented you and you need to modify or debug specific lines
  2. graphify-out/graph.json does not exist yet
  • If graphify-out/wiki/index.md exists, navigate it instead of reading raw files
  • Read graphify-out/GRAPH_REPORT.md only for broad architecture review when query/path/explain do not surface enough context
  • After modifying code files, run graphify update . to keep the graph current (AST-only, no API cost)
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 22 lines · 294 tokens per session scan A f8acb02fb5f0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

graphify is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mamahoos/dot-files (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 294 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to graphify, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.