graph-engineering

graph-engineering is a skill for Codex from Mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,589 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for designing a fixed directed acyclic graph, or DAG: a set of steps whose dependencies flow forward without cycles. Each step has defined inputs, outputs, ownership, checks, budgets, and recovery rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan workflows with independent branches, typed data connections, explicit merge points, node-level recovery, permissions, state paths, and final acceptance checks.
Why use it?
It makes dependency-heavy workflows inspectable and prevents unclear joins, missing checks, or unbounded parallel work. It records evidence that both individual steps and the final result passed.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to plan workflows with independent branches, typed data connections, explicit merge points, node-level recovery, permissions, state paths, and final acceptance checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills/graph-engineering
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 Mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills --skill graph-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,589 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 9
    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 $0.00033 $0.01589
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00794
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00159

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4b3fd2062c74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

graph-engineering 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_graph_contract.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/graph-engineering/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Graph Engineering

<skill_contract> A dependency-heavy objective with candidate nodes, data schemas, owners, effects, verifiers, joins, budgets, and durable state paths. A validated static DAG contract with typed edges, explicit joins, node-local recovery, and graph-level receipts. Static invariants and terminal acceptance checks pass with fresh node, join, budget, permission, and state evidence. <non_goals>Temporal loop design, worker-team command, runtime-kernel implementation, dynamic graphs, or universal parallelism.</non_goals>

Use Graph Engineering for dependency width. Use loop-engineering for repeated execution through time, agent-teams-command for process ownership and IPC, and harness-engineering for scheduler, permission, lease, and observability infrastructure. A graph node may contain a bounded Loop or Agent Team.

Usage Template

Provide: objective/non-goals, candidate nodes, real data dependencies, payload schemas, owners and write territories, join semantics, node/terminal verifiers, effects and permissions, artifact/state paths, budgets, stop conditions, and recovery. Load references/graph-contract.md for the full schema and boundary; start from references/diamond-graph-example.json.

Workflow

Run the admission gate before drawing a graph:

  1. Identify which steps actually consume another step's output.
  2. Estimate independent width, critical path, scheduler overhead, and review load. Require measurable payback or stronger independent evaluation.
  3. Keep one-shot or Loop execution when work is mainly sequential, small, or cheaper to review serially.
  4. Limit V8.1 to a static DAG: sequence, pipeline, diamond, maker-checker, or bounded subgraph. Put repetition inside a loop node; reject graph cycles and dynamic expansion.

<unknowns_gate>

Return NEEDS_INPUT when objective, graph owner, dependency direction, payload schema, writer, verifier, permission boundary, budget, join, or recovery is missing and cannot be discovered safely. Probe candidate independence with a small dry run. Do not invent an edge merely because two steps are adjacent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 161 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 4b3fd2062c74

Subscribe to this mod's changes

graph-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills (138 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,589 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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