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Knowledge Graph

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Compile documents, notes, web content, transcripts, research materials, or code repositories into an evidence-grounded, visualization-ready knowledge graph with semantically typed entity nodes, statement-level provenance, and typed relationship edges. Use with ov compile to create or incrementally refresh `entities/*.md` node artifacts and a root `relations.jsonl` edge file for people, organizations, groups, animals, places, products, projects, systems, services, documents, events, and other identifiable things.

Overview

Publishervolcengine
RepositoryOpenViking
Skill nameknowledge-graph
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Bundled files
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LicenseAGPL-3.0
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  • Markdown instructions

    A SKILL.md file the model loads on demand, so it only costs tokens when a request actually matches.

  • Works with any LLM

    AI skills are plain Markdown, not provider-specific code, so this works with GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or a local model.

  • Self-contained

    Everything the model needs lives in the instructions — no extra files to sync.

  • Open source

    Published by volcengine on GitHub. Read the source before you install it.

Installation

Install the Knowledge Graph AI skill in TypingMind to use it with any LLM, or drop it into another agent that reads SKILL.md.

1

Install in TypingMind

TypingMind installs a skill straight from its GitHub folder — it reads SKILL.md, bundles the resource files, and stores the result locally.

  1. Open the app and go to Plugins → Skills.
  2. Choose "Install from GitHub".
  3. Paste the skill folder URL below and confirm.
  4. Enable the skill in any chat where you want it available.
Plugins → Skills → Add skill → From GitHub URL, then paste the folder URL and press Continue.
2

Install in another agent

Any agent that reads the Agent Skills format can use this skill — copy the folder into that agent's skills directory.

Claude Code — .claude/skills
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/volcengine/OpenViking.git /tmp/OpenViking
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/OpenViking/examples/compile/ov-compile-skills/knowledge-graph .claude/skills/knowledge-graph
Restart Claude Code after copying so it picks up the new skill.

Use it in TypingMind

Enable Knowledge Graph in any TypingMind chat and the model takes it from there. Its name and description sit in the system prompt, and the moment a request matches, the model loads the full instructions itself — you never invoke it by hand, and it costs no tokens until it is actually used.

The model loads Knowledge Graph on its own as soon as a request matches it.

Works with any AI model

AI skills are plain Markdown instructions rather than provider-specific code, so Knowledge Graph is not tied to the model it was written for. Install it once in TypingMind and use it with GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral, Llama, or a local model you run yourself — all on your own API keys.

  • Loaded only when it is needed

    The system prompt carries just the name and description. The instructions are fetched on the first matching request, so an idle skill costs nothing.

  • Switch models mid-chat

    Because the skill is instructions rather than code, changing model does not break it — the next model reads the same SKILL.md.

Skill instructions

This is the SKILL.md content the model loads. Read it before installing — a skill is instructions your model will follow.

Knowledge Graph

Goal

Turn the supplied sources into a durable graph that agents can traverse by entity, type, and relationship. Build the graph as this artifact tree:

text
entities/
  <entity-id>.md
relations.jsonl

Keep sources read-only. Follow the task instruction for scope, language, audience, and depth; otherwise use the dominant language of the sources. Ground every node, material claim, and edge in the supplied sources. Treat sources as provenance rather than domain nodes unless a source is itself a named subject in the domain.

Entity nodes

Create a node for a named thing with a stable identity or boundary, such as a person, organization, group, animal, place, product, project, system, service, module, dataset, standard, document, artifact, or named event.

Store each node at entities/<entity-id>.md with this structure:

yaml
---
type: entity
id: 取经队伍
title: 取经队伍
entity_type: group
description: 由唐三藏率领、以西行取经为目标的行动团体。
aliases: [唐僧师徒, 师徒五众]
sources:
  - viking://resources/source.md
---

Use type: entity as the artifact kind and entity_type as the entity's semantic class. Choose a stable lowercase snake_case value such as person, organization, group, animal, place, product, project, system, service, module, dataset, standard, document, artifact, or event. Reuse an established type vocabulary when refreshing a graph; introduce a narrower type only when it materially improves filtering or visualization.

Write description as one stable, context-independent identity sentence. Do not put a single episode's actions, a temporary state, a source-specific opinion, or an extraction history in the description. Record exact source references that establish the entity's identity and description in the non-empty sources list. This node-level list does not replace claim-specific evidence.

Follow the frontmatter with concise Markdown only when it adds useful context beyond the fingerprint. Describe applicable stable attributes, responsibilities, interfaces, boundaries, or source-scoped context. Use level-2 headings such as ## Overview or their equivalent in the output language, and omit empty sections. Put exact source URIs, repository-relative paths, or supplied links next to the material claims they support. Keep episode-specific or time-bound facts out of the stable overview; place them in a clearly scoped context section or model them through an event node.

Do not duplicate entity-to-entity facts in prose when they belong in relations.jsonl. Keep literal attributes in the node only when they are useful and supported. For example, store a team's membership as member_of edges rather than only as a sentence listing its members.

Choose node identities consistently:

  • Use one canonical name and record useful alternate names in aliases.
  • Create a stable, path-safe ID. Prefer lowercase kebab-case for Latin text; preserve letters and numbers from other scripts and replace whitespace or punctuation with hyphens.
  • For a new entity whose canonical name uses a non-Latin script, keep that script in the ID and filename. In particular, when the output language and canonical name are Chinese, use the canonical Chinese name directly; never translate or transliterate it into an English ID.
  • Set id to the filename without .md and keep type fixed as entity.
  • Reuse the established ID and path when an existing node represents the same identity. Do not rename an existing ID merely to localize it; title is its localized display name.
  • Qualify homonyms with the smallest useful context and keep distinct identities as separate nodes.
  • Prefer entities that are central, recurring, requested, well-connected, or important for understanding the source domain.
  • Do not create a node merely because a source file, directory, section, or chunk exists. Create a source document as a domain entity only when its identity and relationships matter to the graph, such as a named contract, standard, publication, or report.

Use broad themes, attributes, actions, and relation phrases to describe entities or edges rather than turning them into standalone nodes.

Typed edges

Write one directed edge per line in relations.jsonl:

json
{"from":"孙悟空","relation":"member_of","label":"属于","to":"取经队伍","evidence":["viking://resources/source.md"]}

Treat each line as the statement <from> <relation> <to>. Apply these rules:

  • Reference final entity IDs in from and to.
  • Express relation as a stable, language-independent, directional, lowercase snake_case predicate, such as member_of, works_for, leads, created, depends_on, originates_from, or located_in. Reuse an established predicate for the same semantics.
  • Set label to a concise human-readable rendering of the relation in the requested output language. For Chinese output, use a Chinese label such as 任职于, 属于, 持有, or 位于; do not expose the English predicate as the display label.
  • Require relation and label to express the same meaning. Do not use works_for for group membership, belongs_to for geographic origin, or another broad predicate merely because its localized label looks plausible.
  • Use one consistent label for each relation predicate within the graph. When refreshing an existing graph, preserve its predicate codes and add localized labels to retained edges that do not have one.
  • Include a non-empty evidence array of exact source references supporting the edge.
  • Merge evidence for duplicate (from, relation, to) triples into one line.
  • Add reciprocal or inverse edges when they carry useful, source-supported meaning.
  • Keep both endpoints in the final entity set.
  • Emit compact standalone JSON objects without a surrounding array.
  • Sort lines by from, then relation, then to for deterministic output.

Use explicit source statements or behavior demonstrated by authoritative source material to establish edges. Treat co-occurrence as a discovery hint and encode the relationship only after its meaning and direction are supported.

Model a relationship as a node when it has its own identity or when more than two participants, qualifications, or state changes are essential. Use named contracts, agreements, appointments, transactions, meetings, and events as intermediate nodes instead of hiding their semantics inside a long predicate. For example, connect a party to a named agreement with party_to, then connect the agreement to the governed artifact with governs_use_of; do not encode signs_agreement directly to the artifact.

Use inverse edges selectively. Add them only when they improve traversal and have a clear, consistently reused predicate; do not mirror every edge mechanically.

Provenance

Keep domain knowledge and provenance distinct:

  • Use each entity's sources list for evidence that establishes its identity and stable description.
  • Use an edge's evidence list for evidence supporting that exact triple.
  • Put evidence for additional Markdown claims next to the claim it supports.
  • Preserve exact supplied URIs, repository-relative paths, links, and available anchors. Never invent a source reference or location.
  • Treat a source reference as support, not as an endorsement that every statement in the source is true. Preserve conflicts, scope, chronology, and uncertainty when sources disagree.
  • Never emit an unheaded 来源:... or Source: ... line. The frontmatter sources field is the default page-level source inventory. If the task explicitly requires a human-readable source list, render it once under ## 来源 or ## Sources as Markdown bullets and do not repeat claim-specific links there.

Display contract

Keep identifiers separate from presentation. A visualization or other human-facing view should display each node's title rather than its id, and each edge's label rather than its relation. Treat relation as the machine key and use it only as a fallback when reading an older edge that has no label. Use entity_type for node shape, color, grouping, and filtering. Keep sources and evidence available in a detail panel or inspection view rather than rendering them as ordinary domain nodes.

Workflow

Survey

Inventory the source kinds, authority, chronology, vocabulary, and coverage. Inspect the existing entity artifacts and relations.jsonl before planning an incremental refresh. For code sources, inspect the relevant manifests, documentation, public contracts, schemas, tests, entry points, runtime wiring, and configuration needed to establish entity identities and relationships.

Normalize

Build a working set of canonical names, aliases, candidate IDs, identity clues, semantic entity types, evidence, and existing-node matches. Merge spelling variants and true synonyms. Keep ambiguous references unresolved until the sources provide enough identity evidence.

Extract

For every candidate node, separate its stable fingerprint from source-scoped facts. For every candidate edge, identify its source node, target node, precise predicate, and supporting evidence. Choose the predicate that preserves the semantics expressed by the source. Identify relationships that require an intermediate event, agreement, document, or other relationship node before drafting prose.

Integrate

Preserve accurate existing nodes and edges, merge complementary evidence, add new graph knowledge, and revise facts superseded by stronger or newer supplied evidence. When merging duplicate nodes, rewrite all affected edge endpoints to the surviving entity ID.

Submit the complete entity and relation artifact set while preserving established paths for unchanged nodes.

Quality check

Before finishing, verify that:

  • every node represents one identifiable entity and has matching file and frontmatter IDs;
  • every node has a supported entity_type, stable description, and non-empty sources;
  • every newly created non-Latin canonical ID follows the source language rule, while established IDs remain stable;
  • canonical identities, aliases, and semantic types are consistent across the graph;
  • every material claim and edge has exact supplied evidence at the correct granularity;
  • every relation uses the required JSONL schema, a precise directional predicate, and a non-empty localized display label;
  • every predicate and label are semantically equivalent, and membership, employment, origin, ownership, and containment have not been conflated;
  • every repeated relation predicate uses one consistent label in the selected language;
  • every edge endpoint resolves to an entity node;
  • every central or selected entity participates in at least one supported edge unless the sources establish no relationship and keeping the isolated node is explicitly useful;
  • every material entity-to-entity relationship described in node prose is represented as an edge, and central multi-party relationships use an appropriate intermediate node;
  • duplicate triples have been merged and the relation lines are deterministically sorted;
  • no unheaded 来源:... or Source: ... line appears in an entity file;
  • the final artifact tree contains the complete entity set and relations.jsonl.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Knowledge Graph AI skill do?

Compile documents, notes, web content, transcripts, research materials, or code repositories into an evidence-grounded, visualization-ready knowledge graph with semantically typed entity nodes, statement-level provenance, and typed relationship edges. Use with ov compile to create or incrementally refresh `entities/*.md` node artifacts and a root `relations.jsonl` edge file for people, organizations, groups, animals, places, products, projects, systems, services, documents, events, and other identifiable things.

Why use Knowledge Graph on TypingMind?

Because you install it once and use it with any model. Knowledge Graph is plain Markdown rather than provider-specific code, so the same skill runs on GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or a local model — and you can switch model mid-chat without it breaking. TypingMind runs on your own API keys, so you pay providers directly instead of a per-seat subscription, and your skills and chats stay in your own storage.

How do I install Knowledge Graph in TypingMind?

Open Plugins → Skills → Install from GitHub in TypingMind and paste https://github.com/volcengine/OpenViking/tree/main/examples/compile/ov-compile-skills/knowledge-graph. TypingMind reads its SKILL.md and installs it as a skill you can enable per chat.

Which AI models can use Knowledge Graph?

Any model you connect in TypingMind. AI skills are plain Markdown instructions rather than provider-specific code, so GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and local models can all load this skill when a request matches it.

How many AI models can I use with Knowledge Graph?

As many as you like. As long as a model supports skills, you can use Knowledge Graph with it — GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral, Llama and more — all on TypingMind with your own API keys.

Is the Knowledge Graph AI skill free?

Yes. It is published on GitHub by volcengine under the AGPL-3.0 license. You only pay your own AI provider for the tokens you use.

What are AI skills?

An AI skill is a reusable instruction bundle that teaches an AI model how to do one specific task. It follows the open Agent Skills format: a SKILL.md file with a name and description, plus any scripts, templates or reference files the model may need. The model reads the instructions only when your request matches the skill, so an installed skill costs nothing until it is used.

How are AI skills different from plugins or MCP servers?

A plugin or MCP server gives a model new tools to call — code that runs somewhere and returns a result. An AI skill gives the model knowledge and process instead: how to approach a task, which steps to follow, what good output looks like. Skills are plain Markdown, so they need no server, no API key and no runtime, and they work with any model.

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