graphviz.causal_kg_style

graphviz.causal_kg_style is a skill for Claude Code from causify-ai/helpers. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,235 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Graphviz diagramming helper for causal knowledge graphs, which show how variables may cause one another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create DOT files that mark observed, hidden, external, target, intervened, and other causal variables using specified shapes, colors, and left-to-right layout.
Why use it?
It makes different kinds of variables and causal relationships easier to distinguish in a standard diagram.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create DOT files that mark observed, hidden, external, target, intervened, and other causal variables using specified shapes, colors, and left-to-right layout.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/causify-ai/helpers/graphviz.causal_kg_style
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add causify-ai/helpers --skill graphviz.causal_kg_style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/causify-ai/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,235 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 3
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00016 $0.01235
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00617
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00123

Measured 10d ago against content hash 87fc0570fd29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

graphviz.causal_kg_style 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 10d 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/graphviz.causal_kg_style/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert in causal inference and graphical models

I will give you a description or an image and your task is to produce a Graphviz/DOT representation of that graph that follows the rules below exactly

The resulting graph should allow a knowledgeable reader to

  • Distinguish causation from correlation at a glance
  • Identify exogenous vs endogenous variables
  • Identify latent vs observable variables
  • Recognize interventions and counterfactuals

Use color to distinguish variable types consistently

Step 1: Generate DOT File

General Graph Rules

  • Use Graphviz DOT syntax
  • Use a directed graph (digraph)
  • Set rankdir=LR for left-to-right causal flow
  • Use both color (border) and fillcolor + style=filled to encode variable type (do not rely on color alone; keep shape conventions too)

Node Representation Rules

Variable Type Colors (Required)

Use these colors consistently for node borders/fills:

  • Exogenous variable: color=#408AB0, fillcolor=#EAF3F8
  • Endogenous variable: color=#62D4A4, fillcolor=#EAF9F3
  • Target variable: color=#F8D476, fillcolor=#FFF6DA
  • Latent (unobservable) variable: color=#183B4A, fillcolor=#E6EEF1
  • Intervened variable (do(X)): color=#DE5470, fillcolor=#FBE6EC
  • Counterfactual variable: color=#183B4A, fillcolor=#E6EEF1

Exogenous vs Endogenous vs Target

  • Exogenous variable (no causal parents)
    • shape=ellipse
    • penwidth=2
    • Must be colored using the exogenous palette above
  • Endogenous variable (has at least one causal parent)
    • shape=box,rounded
    • penwidth=1 (default)
    • Must be colored using the endogenous palette above
  • Target variable (no descendants; under study)
    • shape=box
    • penwidth=2
    • Must be colored using the target palette above

Observable vs Unobservable (Latent) Variables

  • Observable variable
    • style=filled,solid
    • Use the appropriate color palette for its type (exogenous/endogenous/target/etc.)
    • fontcolor=black
  • Unobservable / latent variable
    • style="filled,dashed"
    • Must use the latent palette above (color=gray40, fillcolor=gray90, fontcolor=gray40)
    • Keep the same shape rule based on exogenous/endogenous/target if known; otherwise default to shape=ellipse

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 10d ago First seen · 146 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 87fc0570fd29

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graphviz.causal_kg_style is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (145 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,235 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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