manage-work-graph SKILL.md skillA

manage-work-graph from arminzou/dotbrain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add arminzou/dotbrain/manage-work-graph@git:20261017.5b1062d

Pins git:20261017.5b1062d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
arminzou/dotbrain
Path
plugin/skills/manage-work-graph/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261017.5b1062d, committed Oct 17, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 8, 2026
Size
10,473 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Maintains the project's private work graph — files, shapes, links, claims, records outcomes for, and closes work items. Use for any interaction with the project issue tracker — filing work items, inspecting the ready frontier, claiming, updating status, applying closure. Hands implementation of an item or finite batch to run-execution. NOT for decomposing a design doc into an epic (to-issues), formalizing an initiative (to-design), closing one out (close-design), or triaging public issues…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Manage Work Graph

Maintain the Brainspace's private **work graph**: a typed, prioritized dependency graph of work
items that says what work exists and what it depends on. The engine is declared in `project.yaml`
(`execution-engine:`) and is beads in practice: this skill and the design-lifecycle skills use
`bd` directly. This file owns the model and graph maintenance;
[references/beads.md](references/beads.md) owns how to express work in beads' native fields.

This skill owns the **work graph**: work items and their dependency edges. The **ready frontier**
(open items with no open blockers) is the set eligible to start; blocking edges are the
serialization. The **execution graph** (how an agent team carries out a fixed set of items) and each
item's **execution record** belong to `run-execution`
([its reference](../run-execution/references/execution-record.md)).

Boundaries:

- **Private work graph** — work items in the engine's store; this skill owns it and it is the
  source of truth. Never mirror work state into markdown docs, ROADMAPs, TodoWrite/task lists, or
  a public issue tracker.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add arminzou/dotbrain/manage-work-graph@sha256:856034a092dbe99f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.5b1062d, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Oct 8, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10473 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

arminzou/dotbrain · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nvo74wjgzfrlopao
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arminzou/dotbrain/manage-work-graph
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/856034a092dbe99fc7f049812f739c697feb7cdd66ec659eabf10fde03c45d43

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