agentsop-state-reducer

agentsop-state-reducer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from agentsope/SkillAlchemy. It costs 97 tokens per session (4,668 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding guide for LangGraph, a framework for building workflows with multiple AI-agent steps. It explains how to combine simultaneous updates to shared workflow data using reducers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing LangGraph workflows with parallel branches, multiple agents, or map-reduce patterns. It also helps diagnose InvalidUpdateError messages caused by competing updates.
Why use it?
It prevents crashes when parallel steps write to the same state field. It also helps decide when a reducer is needed and when one writer is enough.

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/agentsope/skillalchemy/agentsop-state-reducer
Any agent
npx skills add agentsope/SkillAlchemy --skill agentsop-state-reducer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentsope/SkillAlchemy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,668 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 $0.00097 $0.04668
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.02334
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00934
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00467

Measured 4d ago against content hash db42852ec6ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentsop-state-reducer 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 4d 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.

skills/agentsop-state-reducer/SKILL.md · 390 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 390 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

State Reducer · Tool Skill

Scope: a single decision — for each state key, declare a reducer or guarantee single-writer. Out of scope: checkpointers, HITL, supervisor vs. swarm — see langgraph-sop for those.


1. 何时激活 (Activation Rules)

Activate when any trigger fires:

  • The task involves a LangGraph StateGraph, TypedDict/BaseModel schema, or Annotated[..., <reducer>] typing.
  • The graph has ≥1 of: parallel branches via static fan-out, Send API, multiple agents writing shared state, or a supervisor pattern where workers return concurrently.
  • The run raises langgraph.errors.InvalidUpdateError — message looks like At key 'messages': Can receive only one value per step. Use an Annotated key to handle multiple values.
  • The user pastes a state schema and asks "why does this crash on parallel?" or "do I need a reducer here?".
  • The user is migrating a linear chain to a fan-out / map-reduce shape.

Do not activate if every key is written by exactly one node per superstep (see §6: over-reducing single-writer keys is an anti-pattern).


2. 核心心智模型 (Core Mental Model)

LangGraph state is either single-writer or has a reducer. Nothing in between.

When a node returns {"k": v}, LangGraph must decide how to merge v into existing state["k"]. There are exactly two legal regimes:

  1. Single-writer / "set" semantics (default, no Annotated). At most one node writes the key per superstep. The new value replaces the old. Two concurrent writers → InvalidUpdateError.
  2. Reducer / "merge" semantics (Annotated[T, reducer_fn]). Any number of writers may write per superstep; LangGraph folds them via reducer_fn(current, new).

The reducer is commutative-enough algebra that lets the engine schedule parallel writes without you reasoning about interleavings. Three canonical reducers cover ~90% of real graphs:

Reducer Type Behaviour
add_messages (from langgraph.graph.message) list[BaseMessage] Append; dedupe-and-update by message id (in-place edit when IDs match)
operator.add list, int, float, str List concat / numeric sum
Custom (curr, new) -> merged anything Domain-specific merge (keep-latest, dedupe-by-id, LLM-summarise)

Read the full file on GitHub · 390 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 390 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A db42852ec6ce

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agentsop-state-reducer is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentsope/SkillAlchemy (357 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 4,668 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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