graph-analysis

A project dependency graph maps which parts of an application rely on other parts. Graph analysis uses that map to show how widely a change may spread, which elements are unused or risky, and how modules are connected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess the impact of changes, find dead code or documents, inspect module health, detect tightly connected areas, and plan module splits in a Mendix project.
Why use it?
It helps reveal breakage risks and structural problems before a refactor, module move, or deletion. The graph must be refreshed before its analysis 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/mendixlabs/mxcli/graph-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add mendixlabs/mxcli --skill graph-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mendixlabs/mxcli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,248 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 $0.00050 $0.03248
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01624
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00650
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00325

Measured yesterday against content hash 0793fc59f895, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

graph-analysis 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.

.claude/skills/mendix/graph-analysis/SKILL.md · 310 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 310 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Graph Analysis: Impact Assessment & Architecture Evaluation

Use this skill when assessing the impact of a change, identifying risky elements, evaluating module health, or planning a structural refactor. The graph tables model the entire project as a dependency graph and expose topology metrics on top of it.

When to Read This Skill

  • Before modifying an entity or microflow that might be widely used
  • Before moving elements between modules
  • When assessing architectural health (coupling, cohesion, god nodes)
  • When planning to split a module or extract a bounded context
  • When identifying dead code to remove

Setup: Two-Step Refresh

Two separate commands are needed. The full catalog must exist before community detection runs.

# Step 1: Build the full catalog (activities, widgets, cross-references)
# Skip if already fresh — check .mxcli/catalog.db mtime
./mxcli -p app.mpr -c "REFRESH CATALOG FULL"

# Step 2: Run graph algorithms (community detection, centrality, layers, cycles)
./mxcli -p app.mpr -c "REFRESH CATALOG COMMUNITIES"

What each step populates:

Step Tables populated
REFRESH CATALOG FULL GRAPH_GOD_NODES, GRAPH_MODULE_COUPLING, GRAPH_MODULE_COHESION, GRAPH_DEAD_ASSETS, GRAPH_ENTITY_HOTSPOTS, GRAPH_MODULE_DEPENDENCIES, GRAPH_REFKIND_DISTRIBUTION
REFRESH CATALOG COMMUNITIES COMMUNITIES, COMMUNITY_SUMMARY, GRAPH_CYCLES, GRAPH_LAYERS, GRAPH_CENTRALITY, GRAPH_INTEGRATION_SURFACE

REFRESH CATALOG COMMUNITIES with a resolution modifier:

  • REFRESH CATALOG COMMUNITIES — default resolution (balanced granularity)
  • REFRESH CATALOG COMMUNITIES resolution 0.6 — coarser clusters (fewer, larger communities; good for monolith-to-multi-app planning)
  • REFRESH CATALOG COMMUNITIES resolution 2.0 — finer clusters (more, smaller communities; good for identifying sub-modules within a large module)

Use Case 1: Pre-Change Impact Assessment

Run before modifying any entity, microflow, or association. Takes under a minute.

Read the full file on GitHub · 310 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 · 310 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 0793fc59f895

Subscribe to this mod's changes

graph-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository mendixlabs/mxcli (115 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,248 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.