homerail-dag-patterns

homerail-dag-patterns is a skill for Codex from xiaotianfotos/homerail. It costs 40 tokens per session (136 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A library and selection tool for HomeRail DAG patterns. These patterns are reusable workflow designs, such as issue diagnosis, planner-and-worker tasks, or periodic triage, rather than complete workflows themselves.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare workflow designs, inspect their requirements, instantiate one with task-specific settings, and start and track the resulting workflow.
Why use it?
Choosing the right structure for a multi-step workflow can be difficult. It lets an agent inspect available patterns, supply parameters, create a workflow, and validate the choice before running it.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to compare workflow designs, inspect their requirements, instantiate one with task-specific settings, and start and track the resulting workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xiaotianfotos/homerail/homerail-dag-patterns
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 xiaotianfotos/homerail --skill homerail-dag-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaotianfotos/homerail

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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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 136 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 175
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
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 $0.00040 $0.00136
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00054
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00014

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e82031b22bd8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

homerail-dag-patterns 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/homerail-dag-patterns/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

HomeRail DAG Patterns

Use the unified HomeRail DAG skill. For pattern selection, composition, gateway semantics, and validation, read its pattern reference.

This entry preserves existing skill IDs. It defines no separate execution or monitoring workflow and is not needed for a new Codex installation.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago Changed · -222 lines · -108 tokens per session e82031b22bd8
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 236 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A af22f65e81ed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

homerail-dag-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository xiaotianfotos/homerail (999 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 136 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 2026-08-30.

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