always-on

An integration between an always-running host and a project graph that describes code and its relationships. It supports graph searches and optional semantic enrichment, where text is analysed to add meaning to graph data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check graph readiness, search or explain related code nodes, find paths, rescan a project, and process requested semantic chunks.
Why use it?
It lets the host request project context while keeping control of which provider is used and how many tokens are spent.

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/nxtsoft/cgraph/always-on
Any agent
npx skills add Nxtsoft/CGraph --skill always-on
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nxtsoft/CGraph

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 307 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 $0.00000 $0.00307
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00153
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00031

Measured 2d ago against content hash 898b8946533a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

always-on 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (cgraph-always-on.sh, cgraph-enrich-drain.sh), 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.

integrations/always-on/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Always-On Graph Integration

Use this skill when an always-on host wants graph context or semantic enrichment while keeping provider choice and token spend under host control.

Contract

Follow the Host Skill Contract in docs/host-skill-contract.md.

The native binary provides deterministic graph commands, chunk planning, fragment validation, semantic cache records, and local graph mutation. The host owns model selection and dispatch. This integration has no provider logic and does not require provider credentials.

Command Routing

Use cgraph-client for all graph operations:

  • status to observe deterministic readiness and enrichment_state
  • query for graph search
  • path for graph paths
  • explain for node neighborhoods
  • update . for full stat-index rescan
  • shutdown for clean daemon exit

Set CGRAPH_PROJECT_ROOT to the project root. Set CGRAPH_DAEMON only when the host must use a specific daemon binary.

Semantic Work

When status or host policy indicates stale semantic inputs, request or compute chunk work according to the contract. Host workers write completed fragments as chunk_NN.json files into the semantic drop directory.

The daemon validates every fragment before mutation. Malformed fragments are rejected and leave the graph unchanged. Valid fragments update the semantic cache by content hash.

Runner

Use integrations/always-on/cgraph-always-on.sh as the reference loop for host processes that need periodic graph status checks and optional deterministic refreshes.

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago First seen · 33 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 898b8946533a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

always-on is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nxtsoft/CGraph (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 307 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.