kb-workflow

kb-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from uttambharadwaj/kb-graph. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,465 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for using a knowledge base, a collection of stored project notes and documents, efficiently before and after technical work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for relevant summaries before coding or deciding, read only the needed documents, and record useful findings after finishing.
Why use it?
It helps an agent find existing decisions, fixes, lessons, and architecture information before repeating work or making conflicting choices.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to search for relevant summaries before coding or deciding, read only the needed documents, and record useful findings after finishing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uttambharadwaj/kb-graph/kb-workflow
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 uttambharadwaj/kb-graph --skill kb-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uttambharadwaj/kb-graph

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,465 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 $0.00040 $0.01465
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00586
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00146

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5daa3aa929db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb-workflow 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.

skills/kb-workflow/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Knowledge Base Workflow

What This Skill Does

This skill teaches you how to use the knowledge-base-server MCP tools efficiently. It does NOT replace the MCP server — it complements it by giving you the retrieval strategy that saves 90%+ tokens.

Think of it this way:

  • MCP server = the engine (search, read, write, capture)
  • This skill = the driving instructions (when to search, what to read, how to capture)

Before Starting Any Task

Search the KB for relevant context BEFORE writing code or making decisions:

1. kb_context("topic") — get summaries only (~100 tokens per doc, 90% savings)
2. Review titles and summaries — decide which docs matter
3. kb_read(id) — read full content ONLY for docs you actually need

Never skip this. The KB has accumulated lessons, fixes, decisions, and architecture docs. Searching first prevents:

  • Repeating solved problems
  • Contradicting past decisions
  • Missing known pitfalls
  • Wasting tokens on re-discovery

The Three-Tier Retrieval Pattern

The KB has three tiers of information. Query the right tier for your need:

Need Tool Tokens When
Quick context kb_context ~100/doc Always start here
Specific search kb_search ~200/result Looking for something specific
Conceptual match kb_search_smart ~200/result Fuzzy/semantic queries
Full document kb_read ~500-5000/doc Only after context confirms relevance

Rule: Never kb_read without kb_context first. You wouldn't read an entire book to check if it's relevant — you'd read the summary.

  • Fallback: if kb_search comes up empty, grep the vault directly — it is plain markdown on disk. Find the vault path in the kb-graph install's .env (OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH=), default ~/kb-vault, then grep -ri "<term>" <vault-path>. Retrieval ranking can miss sparse signals; direct inspection of raw files is the reliable backstop.

After Completing Work

Capture what you learned so the next session starts smarter:

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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 Changed · +6 lines 5daa3aa929db
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 139 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 2e836c745cd5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kb-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository uttambharadwaj/kb-graph (4 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,465 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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