Trellis-Herbivore: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/trellis-research.md

trellis-research is an agent for Claude Code from LonelyHerbivore/Trellis-Herbivore. It costs 42 tokens per session (935 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A research agent that searches a codebase and technical sources for relevant files, patterns, and solutions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for locating code, investigating how existing systems work, and documenting possible technical approaches in the task's research directory.
Why use it?
It keeps research findings separate from implementation changes and records them for the current task.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is LonelyHerbivore/Trellis-Herbivore's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Trellis-Herbivore itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Trellis-Herbivore configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to LonelyHerbivore/Trellis-Herbivore. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LonelyHerbivore/Trellis-Herbivore/main/.claude/agents/trellis-research.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LonelyHerbivore/Trellis-Herbivore

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 935 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 5.1 $0.00042 $0.00935
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00467
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00093

Measured 12d ago against content hash f82244b2a88a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trellis-research 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 12d 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.

.claude/agents/trellis-research.md · 138 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 12d ago First seen · 138 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A f82244b2a88a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

trellis-research is an agent published in the GitHub repository LonelyHerbivore/Trellis-Herbivore (95 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 935 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 2026-08-30.