Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add agents/abilityai/trinity/agent-runtimesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/trinityWhat it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00936 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00468 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00187 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00094 |
Grade A, and why
agent-runtimes scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Runtimes
Trinity agents run on a pluggable runtime — the CLI harness that executes the agent inside its container. Trinity supports Claude Code (default), Gemini CLI, and OpenAI Codex.
Concepts
Runtime -- The execution engine inside the agent container. Each runtime is a different coding-agent CLI with its own auth model, system-prompt file, and capabilities. A template picks one; if none is declared, the agent uses Claude Code.
Harness -- Another name for the runtime. The harness reads the agent's system prompt, calls tools and MCP servers, and produces responses, which Trinity treats identically regardless of which runtime ran them.
How It Works
A template selects the runtime in template.yaml:
runtime:
type: codex # claude-code (default) | gemini-cli | codex
model: gpt-5.6-sol # optional model override
The runtime is fixed when the agent is created. To change it, recreate the agent from a template that declares a different runtime — there is no post-creation switch.
On the Agent Detail page, a runtime badge shows which runtime the agent is using. Chat works the same across all runtimes. For Codex agents, the Session tab is hidden (Codex does not support session resume); the Chat tab remains, with full conversation continuity.
Runtime Comparison
| Claude Code (default) | Gemini CLI | OpenAI Codex | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auth model | Claude subscription / OAuth, or platform API key | Gemini API key | OPENAI_API_KEY (Codex skips Claude-subscription auto-assign) |
| System-prompt file | CLAUDE.md |
CLAUDE.md |
AGENTS.md |
| Chat continuity | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Working memory across turns | Yes | Yes | No (history replayed as text) |
| MCP support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cost reporting | Actual | Actual | Estimated |
Safety controls apply across all runtimes: read-only mode and credential redaction work the same regardless of runtime. Codex enforces read-only through its own sandbox (--sandbox read-only) rather than the Claude tool-use hook.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e004092eb6e6
agent-runtimes is an agent published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/trinity (496 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 936 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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