use-ig

A read-only project map for code and infrastructure, built from connected graphs. It helps answer how repositories, services, frontend calls, backend handlers, and infrastructure relate.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for tracing a request from frontend to backend, locating code for a feature or endpoint, finding what infrastructure supports a service, and checking the likely impact of a change.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search through many repositories to trace connections or estimate what a change could affect. Facts include where information came from, such as source files and line numbers.

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/facets-cloud/praxis-cli/use-ig
Any agent
npx skills add Facets-cloud/praxis-cli --skill use-ig
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Facets-cloud/praxis-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,754 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 $0.00116 $0.03754
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.01877
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00751
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00375

Measured 2d ago against content hash aa3730a5dec6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-ig 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.

internal/skillinstall/embedded/use-ig/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using ig to answer questions about a project

Praxis-MCP read route — queries run server-side via praxis mcp ig; no local ig needed. (If praxis is unavailable, ig ships a native local-ig copy of this skill instead. Only one is ever installed at a time.)

ig holds a prebuilt catalog for a project — a set of code and infra graphs joined at their shared boundaries. When a question spans repos or services, or asks "what connects to X / what breaks if I change X", query the catalog before grepping source. Every read runs on the Praxis server under org-managed credentials; your laptop needs no ig binary, no synced tree, no cloud secrets.

The division of labor: ig states facts (graphs, provenance, source file+line). YOU decide, act, and ask the user. The MCP tools are read-only — they never build, never prompt, never touch your working copy.

Boundary — the six praxis mcp ig tools are the whole read interface. Do not reach for a local ig/graphify binary and do not try to praxis ig sync; in this route reads execute server-side. (Building/refreshing a catalog is a separate CI/setup concern that still uses ig on a builder host — not your job here.)

First: list the catalogs

There is NO default catalog and every read tool needs BOTH a catalog and a member. Start here:

praxis mcp ig ig_list_catalogs

It returns the org's catalogs as name + version, each with its members. Pick the <catalog> your question is about and pass it as --arg catalog=<name> to every other tool. A repo can be a member of MORE THAN ONE catalog (e.g. control-plane in both capillary-cloud and saas-cp); because calls edges only appear between members present in the SAME catalog, "who calls control-plane" is catalog-relative — ask each catalog.

The member arg — pick your lens (REQUIRED)

A catalog is a graph of graphs, so a node is addressed per member. Every read tool takes --arg member=<m> and it selects which graph you read:

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 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 · 234 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A aa3730a5dec6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

use-ig is a skill published in the GitHub repository Facets-cloud/praxis-cli (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 3,754 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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