template-generator

A workflow-template guide for finding available processing nodes and connecting them into tested graphs. A node is one step in a workflow, and edges define how data and execution move between steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating workflow templates involving text, images, audio, models, conditions, data fetching, or other available nodes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent broken connections, circular workflows, and incorrect execution order.

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/dafthunk-com/dafthunk/template-generator
Any agent
npx skills add dafthunk-com/dafthunk --skill template-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dafthunk-com/dafthunk

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,431 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 $0.00013 $0.01431
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00715
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00143

Measured 2d ago against content hash c112254ca074, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

template-generator 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 2d 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/template-generator/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Template Generator Skill

Generate workflow templates: discover nodes, design graphs, wire edges correctly, create tests.

Runtime Essentials

  • Topological execution: Nodes run in dependency order (edges define order)
  • Data flows through edges: sourceOutputtargetInput (port names must match exactly)
  • Skipping: If all upstream edges fail/skip, downstream nodes skip (not an error)
  • No cycles: Runtime rejects circular dependencies

Discover Nodes

Directory structure:

packages/runtime/src/nodes/
├── input/      # TextInputNode, ImageInputNode, NumberInputNode...
├── preview/    # TextPreviewNode, ImagePreviewNode, NumberPreviewNode...
├── text/       # Summarization, translation, sentiment
├── image/      # Generation, manipulation
├── audio/      # Processing, transcription
├── anthropic/  # Claude models
├── openai/     # GPT models
├── logic/      # ConditionalForkNode, ConditionalJoinNode
└── ...         # json/, math/, fetch/, browser/, etc.

Search commands:

Grep pattern="translate" path="apps/api/src/nodes" glob="*.ts"
Glob pattern="packages/runtime/src/nodes/text/*.ts"

Read node interface - look for nodeType.inputs and nodeType.outputs:

Read file_path="packages/runtime/src/nodes/text/bart-large-cnn-node.ts"

Key fields: inputs[].nametargetInput, outputs[].namesourceOutput

Trigger Types

The type field defines how the workflow is triggered:

Type Description Entry Node
manual User-initiated via UI/API Input nodes (TextInputNode, etc.)
email_message Triggered by incoming email ReceiveEmailNode
http_request Triggered by HTTP request (sync) HttpRequestNode
http_webhook Triggered by webhook (async) HttpRequestNode
scheduled Triggered on schedule (cron) ReceiveScheduledTriggerNode
queue_message Triggered by queue message ReceiveQueueMessageNode

Finding trigger-compatible nodes: Nodes declare which triggers they work with via the compatibility field in their nodeType. Search for compatible nodes:

Grep pattern="compatibility:.*email_message" path="apps/api/src/nodes" glob="*.ts"
Grep pattern="compatibility:.*http_request" path="apps/api/src/nodes" glob="*.ts"

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 2d ago First seen · 169 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A c112254ca074

Subscribe to this mod's changes

template-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository dafthunk-com/dafthunk (119 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,431 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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