graph-running

graph-running is a skill for Claude Code from mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,316 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for carrying out an approved work graph: a set of jobs, dependencies, owners, outputs, and human approval points. It records the graph and runs its work lanes at the recommended level of parallelism.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run an approved multi-step project by hand, one job at a time, or with parallel workers, while keeping a file trail and approval gates.
Why use it?
It prevents an unapproved plan from being executed and preserves the decisions and progress so work can continue after a session ends.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the claude-vibes plugin — 22 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to run an approved multi-step project by hand, one job at a time, or with parallel workers, while keeping a file trail and approval gates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes/graph-running
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 mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes --skill graph-running
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-vibes, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,316 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.
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 $0.00105 $0.01316
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00526
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00132

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 262776a0fa99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

graph-running 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 1mo 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.

plugins/vibes/skills/graph-running/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Graph running

Run an approved graph the way it was drawn. The graph-engineering skill designs the work and stops at approval. This skill picks up from there.

Start only from an approved graph

You need three things from graph-engineering before you begin: the confirmed alignment contract, the graph with each job's owner and output, and the user's approval of that graph. If any is missing, go back to claude-vibes:graph-engineering. Do not improvise a graph here, because a graph nobody approved has no authority to guide the work.

Approval of the graph is not approval of every step in it. Each human gate in the graph still needs its own yes at the moment the work reaches it.

Save the graph before running it

If the approved graph recommends manual lanes, a shared note the user keeps is enough. Otherwise write the graph to a file first, so the work survives a closed session and anyone can see what was decided and why.

  • A whole-project graph lives in docs/01-START/roadmap.md, which the 04-plan-roadmap command writes and the 05-track-progress command maintains. Use that file's format and do not create a second one.
  • Any other graph goes in docs/graphs/<short-name>.md, with these sections: the alignment contract, the diagram, a checklist with one line per job (owner, what it depends on, its output, any gate), a "State" section that collects each job's result, and a dated change log.

Run date +%Y-%m-%d before writing a date.

Run the jobs

  1. Follow the arrows. A job starts only when every job it depends on has finished and its output is in the State section.
  2. Run independent lanes the way the graph says. Use the execution level the approved graph recommends. At manual lanes, walk the user through one job at a time and carry the state yourself. At file trails, run each job in turn and record what it produced. At an orchestrated graph, launch independent lanes as separate subagents in a single message with the Agent tool. If the graph names no level, start with file trails and ask before automating further. Lanes that share no arrow must not wait on each other, and they must not see each other's drafts, or they stop being independent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 1mo ago First seen · 60 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 262776a0fa99

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graph-running is a skill published in the GitHub repository mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes (44 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,316 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-22.

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