startcycle-graph-user

startcycle-graph-user is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,669 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A temporary workflow for splitting a task among a few AI workers and then reviewing their results. It is designed for one-off parallel work and leaves no permanent project files behind.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for short tasks that can be divided into two or more workstreams, followed by a review of the combined output.
Why use it?
It avoids setting up a full, persistent multi-agent process for a small task. It helps coordinate several workers without adding long-term project structure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it for short tasks that can be divided into two or more workstreams, followed by a review of the combined output.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills/startcycle-graph-user
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 hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills --skill startcycle-graph-user
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,669 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 111
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00102 $0.01669
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00834
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00167

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2843138082a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

startcycle-graph-user 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 4d 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.

skills/basic/startcycle-graph-user/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

⚡ Light Graph — disposable multi-agent fan-out

/startcycle-graph's dispatcher graph is a permanent, project-scoped contract: seven fixed BDB roles, a state.json schema, a repair loop, a Stop-hook gate. That's the right tool for the BDB build pipeline — and the wrong tool for "spawn me 3 workers for this one thing right now" in a project that has never heard of .agents/graph.md and never should. This skill is that lighter tool: a graph sized to the task in front of you, run once, nothing left behind.

1. Design the graph — you do this, before touching any tool

Read the task. Decide how many nodes it actually needs — most tasks need 2 to 4, not seven:

  • Plan (always, even if it's one line): what are the parallel workstreams, and what does "done" look like for each.
  • Workers (1 to N, run in parallel): the actual fan-out. If the task doesn't parallelize, this is one node, not several for appearance's sake.
  • Review (usually, skip only for genuinely trivial work): one adversarial pass over the workers' output before you call it finished.

Do not invent more structure than the task has. A two-file edit doesn't need a Plan node — just do it. This skill is for the cases actually shaped like a small graph, not an excuse to always draw one.

2. Detect what's available — before deciding how workers run

command -v agy      >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo agy
command -v opencode  >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo opencode
command -v codex     >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo codex

This machine may have none of these — the skill (and whoever installed this package) cannot assume Antigravity, OpenCode, or a Codex plugin connector is present. Pick the worker path in this priority order, first one found wins:

  1. agy present → workers run via agy-job start --tier flash [--yolo] "<task>" (or pro for harder reasoning) — see the antigravity skill for the exact invocation pattern and cost discipline. Separate compute pool, zero Anthropic tokens for the work itself.
  2. opencode present → route worker tasks through it the same way (its own subagent/session primitive), if the project already uses it.
  3. codex present → same idea, via the Codex CLI's own task-delegation surface if this project has that plugin wired up.
  4. none present → fall back to Claude Code's own Agent tool for each worker, with an explicit model: "haiku" override. This is the only path that costs Anthropic tokens for the worker step, and the only one guaranteed to exist everywhere — it is the floor, not the default.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 4d ago First seen · 120 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 2843138082a0

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startcycle-graph-user is a skill published in the GitHub repository hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,669 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.