codependix-navigate

A guide for reading Codependix dependency graphs, which show relationships between projects, modules, or files. These graphs help reveal what depends on a part of a codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before refactoring, changing a function signature, tracing NestJS module wiring, or investigating a file-level import cycle.
Why use it?
It helps you estimate the impact of a rename or interface change without rebuilding the dependency picture by searching through imports. It also reminds you to check that the saved graph is current.

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/jimmypaolini/codebase/codependix-navigate
Any agent
npx skills add JimmyPaolini/codebase --skill codependix-navigate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JimmyPaolini/codebase

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,448 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 $0.00114 $0.01448
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00724
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00290
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00145

Measured yesterday against content hash b052353d2dae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codependix-navigate 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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/skills/codependix-navigate/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reading a codependix graph

Codependix's exports are standing reference artifacts, not pass/fail reports. A repository that runs it has already answered "what depends on this" and committed the answer — usually as a Mermaid diagram in a readme, sometimes as JSON. Reading that is faster and more complete than re-deriving it by grepping for imports, and it is the right first move when scoping a refactor.

Look for a ## 🕸️ Codependix section, or for the marker pair <!-- codependix:start name="..." -->, in a project's readme. The workspace's own graph is exported once at the repository root.

Confirm it is current first

A committed graph is only as fresh as the last --write. Before trusting one to scope a change, run codependix --check — it reports exactly which exports disagree with a freshly built graph and writes nothing. If the graph you are about to read is among them, --write first. The codependix-export skill covers both modes.

A graph that is stale in the direction that matters — an edge added since the last write — is the one way this reference misleads rather than merely lags.

Four graphs, four different questions

Graph Answers
Nx Neighborhood What one project needs from the workspace, and who breaks if it changes
Workspace graph The whole repository's project-level dependency structure at once
NestJS module graph What a project's container actually wires together at runtime
File import graph Which of a project's own files import which others

Pick by the scope of the question. A cross-project rename is a Neighborhood question; moving a file within a project is an import-graph question; "why does this service get that provider" is a module-graph question.

Nx Neighborhood: blast radius

A Neighborhood is deliberately one hop in each direction — what the project depends on, and what depends on it. It is not a transitive closure.

  • dependents is the blast radius of a breaking change to the project's public surface: every project listed will need to compile against the new shape. Their own dependents are one hop further out, in their neighborhoods — walk outward project by project when the change is genuinely breaking, rather than assuming the list is complete.
  • dependencies is what the project is allowed to reach for. A project that needs something absent from this list needs a new dependency declared, not just an import written.
  • An edge marked implicit was inferred by Nx from configuration rather than read out of code, so grepping for an import will not find it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. yesterday First seen · 121 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A b052353d2dae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codependix-navigate is a skill published in the GitHub repository JimmyPaolini/codebase (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 1,448 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 2026-09-01.

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