bi-temporal-edge

bi-temporal-edge is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills. It costs 193 tokens per session (2,755 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A relationship record with two separate timelines: when a fact was true in the real world and when the system learned it. This allows historical queries based on either domain time or ingestion time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer questions such as what configuration was active during an outage, including facts that were learned after they became true.
Why use it?
It prevents current values from replacing the historical state needed to investigate incidents or reconstruct past conditions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to answer questions such as what configuration was active during an outage, including facts that were learned after they became true.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthonyalcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills/bi-temporal-edge
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills --skill bi-temporal-edge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for bi-temporal-edge

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthonyalcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills/bi-temporal-edge/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthonyalcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills/bi-temporal-edge)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthonyalcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills/bi-temporal-edge"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthonyalcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills/bi-temporal-edge/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for bi-temporal-edge

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthonyalcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills/bi-temporal-edge"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthonyalcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills/bi-temporal-edge.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 193 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,755 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00193 $0.02755
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.01378
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00551
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00276

Measured 11d ago against content hash bfe6183e9b56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bi-temporal-edge 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (cli.py, lib.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/memory/bi-temporal-edge/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bi-Temporal Edge

Overview

Agent memory that overwrites facts in place loses the historical trace that makes incident reconstruction possible. The DevOps running example from Ch5/Ch6 makes this concrete: the checkout API had its EC2 instance type changed from t3.large to m5.xlarge on 2026-03-10. The outage occurred 2026-03-15T08:00Z. By the time the post-mortem starts, the configuration store says m5.xlarge — but the agent investigating the outage needs to know what the config was at the time of the outage, not what it is now.

The bi-temporal edge tracks two times per relationship:

  • Validity time (valid_from, valid_until): when the fact was true in the domain. valid_until=None means currently valid.
  • Ingestion time (ingested_at): when the system learned about the fact. May be days or weeks after the fact became true.

These two dimensions are independent. A fact can be valid-but-not-yet-known (staging update pushed to prod 2026-03-10 but only logged 2026-03-12), or known-but-no-longer-valid (we recorded it 2026-03-10, invalidated 2026-03-15 when the rollback happened). Both are common in production.

Once edges carry both timestamps, three new query primitives become mechanical: was_valid_at(timestamp) answers point-in-time, history(node) answers full-evolution, ingestion_lag(edge) answers debugging-the-debugger ("was our agent acting on stale data when it made that decision?").

The chapter pairs this with HINDSIGHT's typed-link extension: each edge carries a link_type ({entity, semantic, temporal, causal}) and a weight multiplier for graph traversal. During spreading-activation search, causal and entity links get μ > 1; weak semantic or long-range temporal links get μ ≤ 1. This biases the agent's reasoning toward explanatory connections.

When to Use

Trigger contexts:

  • DevOps incident reconstruction — what was the config at outage time?
  • Audit-grade question — "What did the agent know on 2026-03-15 when it recommended X?"
  • Regulated environment — compliance evidence needs reproducible point-in- time queries.
  • Multi-agent memory where Agent A wrote a fact, Agent B needs to know whether the fact was valid when Agent A wrote it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 171 lines · 193 tokens per session scan A bfe6183e9b56

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bi-temporal-edge is a skill published in the GitHub repository AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 193 tokens to every session and 2,755 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

lemmalog

Externalize working memory and logical state into the lemmalog Datalog engine (MCP). Use for ANY multi-step task where state should outlive one context window or span agents: long investigations, debugging sessions, audits, multi-agent searches, systematic explorations, planning with many interdependent constraints…

JordyZomer/lemmalog · 105 tokens

library

Sync agent memory files to a Cortex knowledge graph for enhanced retrieval, hybrid search (vector + keyword + graph), AI-powered Q&A with agentic deep research, and knowledge graph exploration.

mocaOS/cortex-app · 39 tokens

openclaw

Persistent memory for agents. Stores preferences, decisions, facts, and events as a connected knowledge graph. Recalled by who, what, when, or why.

hypabase/hypabase · 32 tokens

graph-ask

Ask any natural language question about the memory graph. You generate Cypher directly and execute it. Use when the user has a complex or ad-hoc question that the standard graph tools don't cover.

stevepridemore/graph-memory · 43 tokens

ingest-audio

Transcribe a local audio or video file using Whisper and ingest it into the memory graph. Use when the user has a local MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, or similar audio/video file they want to add to their knowledge graph.

stevepridemore/graph-memory · 56 tokens

ingest

Ingest a file or URL into the memory graph. Handles local files (text, PDF, DOCX, XLSX, images, etc.) and URLs (web pages, YouTube, Wikipedia, RSS). Use when the user wants to add any document or web content to their knowledge graph.

stevepridemore/graph-memory · 62 tokens