information-flow-control-gate

information-flow-control-gate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills. It costs 184 tokens per session (2,403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-policy layer for assistants that use several tools in sequence. It maps which tool outputs can satisfy another tool's inputs and labels data by whether its source is trusted.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding valid multi-step tool paths, carrying trust labels through combined data, and blocking actions when policy says tainted data is unsafe.
Why use it?
It addresses two risks in chained tool use: choosing the wrong next step and allowing untrusted data to reach sensitive actions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Finding valid multi-step tool paths, carrying trust labels through combined data, and blocking actions when policy says tainted data is unsafe.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthonyalcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills/information-flow-control-gate
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 information-flow-control-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 184 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,403 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 $0.00184 $0.02403
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.01202
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00240

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4805736f7862, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

information-flow-control-gate 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/tool-orchestration/information-flow-control-gate/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Information Flow Control Gate

Overview

Authentication answers "is this agent allowed to call this tool?" It cannot answer "is this DATA allowed to flow into this action?" When tools chain together, two new problems appear, and this gate is the deterministic layer that handles both.

Type matching (the NESTFUL problem). The NESTFUL benchmark shows even the most advanced LLMs achieve only ~41% success on nested API calls when tool relationships are implicit. They fail to recognize that getting COVID statistics for a country requires first obtaining the country code; they struggle with type matching between one API's output and another's input. Modeling REQUIRES_INPUT and PRODUCES_OUTPUT types explicitly reduces multi-step reasoning to a graph traversal: get_country_details("India") -> "IN" (type ISO_3166_1_alpha_2), then get_covid_stats(location="IN").

Taint tracking (FIDES IFC). Every value carries a trust label from its provenance. An email from an internal domain is TRUSTED; an external one is UNTRUSTED. The taint propagates: mix trusted with untrusted and the result inherits UNTRUSTED. A deterministic policy then blocks sensitive actions on tainted data. Opaque-variable management hardens this: the LLM sees only an opaque UUID reference, and must call read_variable to materialize content, so malicious instructions embedded in untrusted content never directly steer the model's reasoning. This stops two threats authentication cannot: agent tool misuse (a legitimate tool used for a malicious purpose on tainted data) and agent goal manipulation (untrusted instructions overriding the objective).

When to Use

  • Tools chain: one tool's output feeds another tool's input
  • The agent may ingest external/untrusted content (emails, scraped docs, third-party API responses) that could reach a sensitive action
  • You want deterministic type-matched execution planning instead of hoping the LLM tracks variables between calls
  • You need an auditable "why was this action blocked" answer

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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 · 173 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A 4805736f7862

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information-flow-control-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 184 tokens to every session and 2,403 once invoked, about $0.0009 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.

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