Doctrine for any work that builds, serves, or consumes a graph surface. A graph is not a list: subgraphs are complete within their declared bound or they are wrong; list operations (pagination, truncation, top-N sampling of nodes or edges) never touch a subgraph; responses carry the anchors that navigate to the next bounded response; graph tools are thin deterministic formatters over a smart corpus; a degraded list-shaped answer is never an acceptable substitute for a typed refusal or a well-...
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# Working With Graphs (Cross-tool)
Read and follow `.agent/skills/working-with-graphs/SKILL-CANONICAL.md`.
