workgraph SKILL.md skillA

workgraph from av/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add av/skills/workgraph@git:20261020.f0b3811

Pins git:20261020.f0b3811 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
av/skills
Path
workgraph/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20261020.f0b3811, committed Oct 20, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 3, 2026
Size
22,865 bytes
Repository stars
28
License
MIT

Orchestrate work as a cyclic directed graph of subagent-executed nodes with transition criteria on edges, budgeted cycles, and per-node gates (runtime verification, metric, or artifact). Use when the user says "workgraph", "run this as a graph", "graph this work", or when a goal has parallel branches, feedback loops, or mixed gate types that a linear loop cannot express. Every node is sized to a 64k context budget, so small goals run as a two-node do/verify graph and large goals scale out…

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

# Workgraph

Work expressed as a directed graph. Nodes are units of work executed by
subagents. Edges carry transition criteria. Cycles are allowed — and budgeted.

You are the **orchestrator**: router, scheduler, gatekeeper, scribe. All
productive work happens inside subagents. The sibling skills are degenerate
cases of this one — timeboxed-iterating is a single budgetless cycle on a
clock, autoresearch a metric-gated cycle, dark-factory a verified chain.

The one sizing rule: **every node fits a 64k context budget**. The planner
estimates each node from the task and sizes it to that budget. A goal that
fits one node is a two-node graph (`do → verify`) and runs with no further
ceremony; a very large goal is a large graph. Nodes are sized to the
budget, never to a target count.

```
Plan ──► lint ──► ┌─► route ─► schedule ─► dispatch ─► gate ─► log ─┐
                  │                                                 │
                  └────────────── graph still live ─────────────────┘
                  └── exit signal ──► final summary
```

## Role and Iron Laws

```
1. YOU DO NO WORK. You route, schedule, dispatch, gate, and log. Exploring
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add av/skills/workgraph@sha256:32ca806ffd1dbc37

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.f0b3811, 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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Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 3, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 26 days.

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git:20260803.7f28ae62026-08-03 7f28ae6 15,404 BA view · diff
git:20260803.1818a8e2026-08-03 1818a8e 13,130 BA view

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 (22865 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

av/skills · 28 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wwzgw4nhkvrbz5dr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=av/skills/workgraph
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/32ca806ffd1dbc373b117db951530266f3a8a2401432a439bc773c388e080ace

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