About kg-traverse
kg-traverse is a skill for exploring a knowledge graph from a seed entity. It expands and ranks causal paths, then synthesizes the highest-scoring results for impact analysis and code-structure exploration.
Key features
- 01Expand causal paths from a seed entity
- 02Score paths by relevance
- 03Prune low-scoring paths
- 04Synthesize and rank results
- 05Report the top 10 paths
Use cases
- 01Trace what depends on an entity
- 02Find an entity’s dependencies
- 03Explore indirect relationships
- 04Analyze impact or code structure
MCP support
The skill calls Ruflo MCP tools to recall entities, traverse causal edges, search patterns, and synthesize context.
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ ruvnet/ ruflo --skill kg-traverseAfter installing, type/kg-traversein Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMEKG Traverse
Perform pathfinder graph traversal starting from a seed entity. Expands outward through causal edges, scores paths by relevance, and prunes low-similarity branches.
When to use
When you need to explore the knowledge graph starting from a specific entity -- finding what depends on it, what it depends on, or discovering indirect relationships. Useful for impact analysis, dependency chains, and understanding code structure.
Steps
- Seed -- call
mcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__agentdb_hierarchical-recallto look up the target entity by name - Expand -- call
mcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__agentdb_causal-edgeto find all edges connected to the seed entity, then recursively expand outward to the specified depth (default: 3) - Score -- for each path, compute relevance:
cumulative_score = product(edge_weight * keyword_similarity(query, node))usingmcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__agentdb_pattern-search(thesemanticRoutercontroller isenabled: falsein current AgentDB builds; pattern-search is the available substitute and works fine for entity-name + relation-type keyword matches — see ruvnet/ruflo#2049). For higher-fidelity semantic similarity, callers can fall back tomcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__embeddings_generate+ manual cosine, but that's not required for step 3 to function. - Prune -- remove paths with cumulative score below 0.3
- Rank -- sort remaining paths by cumulative score descending
- Synthesize -- call
mcp__plugin_ruflo-core_ruflo__agentdb_context-synthesizeto combine the top paths into a coherent summary - Report -- display the top 10 paths with: path (entity chain), relation types, cumulative score, and synthesized context
CLI alternative
npx @claude-flow/cli@latest memory search --query "relations for ENTITY_NAME" --namespace knowledge-graph