investigation-dag-planner

investigation-dag-planner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills. It costs 192 tokens per session (1,858 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planner for investigation tasks that maps dependencies and groups independent tasks into phases that can run at the same time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize hypotheses into parallel work groups, order tasks by priority, estimate phase duration, and stop remaining work when evidence confirms a cause.
Why use it?
It avoids forcing complex incident investigations into a slow, strictly linear sequence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to organize hypotheses into parallel work groups, order tasks by priority, estimate phase duration, and stop remaining work when evidence confirms a cause.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthonyalcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills/investigation-dag-planner
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 investigation-dag-planner
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 192 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,858 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 $0.00192 $0.01858
Opus 5 $0.00096 $0.00929
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00372
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00186

Measured 12d ago against content hash f05260f3ce2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investigation-dag-planner 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 12d 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/reasoning-planning/investigation-dag-planner/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Investigation DAG Planner

Overview

Real investigation rarely follows a linear path. When multiple hypotheses exist, some can be tested in parallel while others have dependencies. Testing whether the database is overloaded and whether the payment service has memory pressure use different data sources — they can run simultaneously. But testing for a network partition between two services only makes sense after ruling out simpler explanations.

This is the dynamic-DAG-construction pattern (Example 5-15) applied to incident diagnosis. The planner:

  1. Analyzes dependencies between hypotheses/tasks.
  2. Identifies groups that can safely run in parallel (a topological level — the same computation bd ready performs in Beads, and parallel_groups in Example 5-15).
  3. Organizes them into phases. Within each phase, tasks are ordered by priority (the historically/structurally most-likely hypothesis first).
  4. Estimates each parallel phase's duration as the max of its concurrent tests, since they run concurrently — not the sum.

Execution then proceeds phase by phase with early termination: as soon as a hypothesis is confirmed with sufficient corroborating evidence, remaining phases are skipped. A dependency cycle raises CycleError — that is a malformed plan, surfaced rather than silently mis-executed.

In the DevOps latency investigation (account 123456789012), the checkout latency spike yields three hypotheses. The DAG groups db_pool_exhaustion and payment_memory_pressure into one parallel phase (different data sources); network_partition depends on ruling out the pool hypothesis, so it lands in a later phase. When the pool hypothesis confirms in the first phase, early termination skips the network-partition test entirely.

When to Use

  • A planning node must decide which tasks are parallel-safe and order phases
  • Incident-investigation hypothesis testing, multi-track research, multi-party claim processing (the chapter's multi-vehicle-accident example)
  • You want an explicit duration estimate and an auditable phase structure

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 12d ago First seen · 143 lines · 192 tokens per session scan A f05260f3ce2c

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investigation-dag-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository AnthonyAlcaraz/agentic-graph-rag-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 192 tokens to every session and 1,858 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.

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