propagate-change

propagate-change is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Abilityai/cornelius. It costs 25 tokens per session (428 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A dependency check for a linked knowledge base. When one note changes, it follows the links to find other notes that may now be outdated and need review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after substantially changing a note to list affected notes, rank them by likely staleness, and decide whether to review or update them.
Why use it?
It shows the likely impact of an edit, so related notes are less likely to remain inconsistent or outdated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/abilityai/cornelius/propagate-change
Any agent
npx skills add Abilityai/cornelius --skill propagate-change
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/cornelius

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 428 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00025 $0.00428
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6f2394daf1b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

propagate-change 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 5d ago.

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.

.claude/skills/propagate-change/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Propagate Framework/Note Change

When a note is substantially edited, this skill computes which downstream notes may be stale and need review. Uses the Brain Dependency Graph's staleness propagation engine with edge-type decay, distance decay, and hub dampening.

State Dependencies

Source Location Read Write Description
Enrichments resources/brain-graph/data/graph_enrichments.json Updated staleness scores
LBS Graph resources/local-brain-search/data/brain_graph.pkl NetworkX graph

Process

Step 1: Run propagation

cd $PROJECT_ROOT/resources/brain-graph
../local-brain-search/venv/bin/python cli.py propagate "<NOTE_NAME>"

Optional: specify change magnitude (0.0-1.0) for partial changes:

../local-brain-search/venv/bin/python cli.py propagate "<NOTE_NAME>" --magnitude 0.5

Step 2: Present affected notes

Show the user which notes are flagged for review, sorted by staleness score.

For each affected note, explain:

  • Why it's flagged (which upstream change, through what edge type)
  • Suggested action: review, update, or mark as OK

Step 3: Offer to inspect specific notes

If the user wants details on any affected note:

../local-brain-search/venv/bin/python cli.py inspect "<NOTE_NAME>"

When to Use

  • After substantially editing a framework or key insight note
  • When the user says they've updated their thinking on a topic
  • After ingesting new source material that contradicts existing notes
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. 5d ago First seen · 55 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 6f2394daf1b3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

propagate-change is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/cornelius (105 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 428 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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