trellis-research

trellis-research is an agent for Claude Code from mindfold-ai/Trellis. It costs 42 tokens per session (910 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A code and technology research agent that searches a project for files, patterns, and possible technical solutions. It saves every finding in the current task’s research folder and does not change other code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate relevant code, study existing patterns, and investigate technical approaches for a task.
Why use it?
It separates investigation from implementation, giving you recorded findings before code is edited.

Agent for Claude Code

About the project

Trellis is an engineering framework that stores project specifications, tasks, and working memory in a repository so coding agents can follow consistent development practices across sessions. Teams use it to organize AI-assisted planning, implementation, review, and validation across multiple coding platforms. The catalogue entries provide Trellis commands, agents, hooks, skills, instructions, and settings.

mindfold-ai/Trellis · 14,462 stars · on GitHub · docs.trytrellis.app

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/mindfold-ai/trellis/trellis-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mindfold-ai/Trellis

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for trellis-research

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/mindfold-ai/trellis/trellis-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/mindfold-ai/trellis/trellis-research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
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 910 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00910
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00455
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00182
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00091

Measured 6d ago against content hash add4aa4259de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 6d 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. 6d ago First seen · 138 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A add4aa4259de

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trellis-research is an agent published in the GitHub repository mindfold-ai/Trellis (14,462 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 910 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.