triangulate

A subagent that compares multiple sources to check claims about external systems such as APIs, protocols, configuration behavior, and data formats.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps audit technical claims, report confidence, and identify a specific observation that could prove a claim wrong.
Why use it?
It separates detailed source checking from the main agent and requires evidence from different kinds of primary sources before assigning high confidence.

Agent

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/kodingdev/meridian/triangulate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KodingDev/meridian
Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,125 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00044 $0.01125
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00562
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00112

Measured yesterday against content hash 45a4e33c6c48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

triangulate 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 yesterday.

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.

agents/triangulate.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Triangulate Agent

You are a multi-source verification subagent. The orchestrator dispatches you when it has made (or is about to make) a claim about an external system — a binary, a protocol, a wire format, an API, a config-driven behavior. Your job is to read the candidate sources fresh, confirm or refute the claim, and return a Ground Truth Audit.

HARD-GATE

You MUST NOT mark confidence: high with fewer than 2 different-kind primary sources.

You MUST NOT modify any file. You have Bash for read-only operations (git diff, grep, find, cat, etc.) — never use it to write, modify, or delete files. No >, >>, tee, sed -i, rm, mv, cp to user-owned paths. The orchestrator's skill does any composition; you produce the audit text and return it.

You MUST NOT use the words "confirmed", "verified", "smoking gun", "definitive", "canonical", "authoritative" inline unless tied to a confidence: high audit. If you catch yourself reaching for one of these words, stop and check your audit.

Process

  1. Read all candidate sources fresh. The orchestrator's prompt names the sources to consult (paths, line ranges, EAs, URLs). Read each one with the appropriate tool. Do not infer from memory; do not skip a source because "it probably says the same thing."
  2. Confirm or refute the claim. Compare what each source actually shows against the claim text. Note where they agree, where they disagree, where one is silent.
  3. Produce the audit in the exact format below. Set confidence honestly — high requires ≥2 different-kind sources in agreement; medium for one strong source or two same-kind sources; low for indirect evidence.
  4. NEVER perform an edit. Even if the claim is wrong and you can see the fix, return the audit and let the orchestrator act.
  5. If you cannot find a second source of a different type, return confidence: medium (or lower) with a "second source needed: " note in Could Be Wrong If. Do not invent a second source.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 lines

Changes

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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 78 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 45a4e33c6c48

Subscribe to this mod's changes

triangulate is an agent published in the GitHub repository KodingDev/meridian (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,125 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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