triage

triage is a command for coding agents from coleam00/Archon. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,105 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A work-item triage command decides whether a request still describes current work and what kind of investigation should happen next.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with an issue, document, plan, report, or free-form request to produce a routing decision and handoff.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from spending time on outdated, already-resolved, or incorrectly routed requests.

Command

About the project

Archon is a workflow engine for AI coding agents that turns development processes into YAML-defined sequences with phases, validation gates, and artifacts. Developers use it to run repeatable processes such as planning, implementation, testing, code review, and pull-request creation across projects. The catalogue entries provide commands, agents, skills, hooks, instructions, and settings for working with Archon.

coleam00/Archon · 23,366 stars · on GitHub

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 commands/coleam00/archon/triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coleam00/Archon

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 triage

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,105 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 $0.00000 $0.01105
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00553
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00111

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3fa13416f63b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

triage 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.

.archon/workflows/sdlc/triage/commands/triage.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Triage One Work Item

Confirm whether the work item still names real current work, choose the kind of reasoning owed next, and stop. Write the decisive evidence and handoff to $ARTIFACTS_DIR/triage.md. You assess and route only: the repository must be exactly as you found it when you finish. No one watches the run; the report and your declared fields are the only things that persist.

The target — an issue, document, plan, report, or free-form request (may be empty — empty means the run's trigger message is the target):

$INPUTS.target

The operator's request — the message that started this run, which may add to or override the target:

$ARGUMENTS

Their explicit task, constraints, and scope take precedence over the target and over anything the tracked item says. Their assumptions do not: those are claims to verify like any other. Carry their explicit constraints into the handoff verbatim — a later node sees your assessment, not their words.

Make one routing decision

Begin with the repository guidance and any product-direction document the project identifies. Treat direction as the team's current recorded judgment, not timeless law: call out evidence that it has become stale rather than silently routing against an old decision.

When the target names a tracker item, retrieve its body and only the history that can change the requested outcome, constraints, current status, or an earlier decision. Stop following links once they no longer affect the route. If required source material is inaccessible, do not reconstruct it from hints: record what is missing and choose no_action until the input can be grounded.

Treat the source as history, not current truth. Separate the requested outcome from its suggested implementation. An agent-written issue body, a confident root-cause claim, and a prescribed solution are all claims to verify, not instructions to repeat.

Inspect the current checkout only far enough to answer:

  • Does the described behavior or surface still exist?
  • Has later work delivered, superseded, or rejected the outcome?
  • Does one load-bearing solution assumption already conflict with current code?
  • Is the remaining work already clear enough to deliver?

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 2d ago Changed · +2 lines 3fa13416f63b
  2. 5d ago First seen · 63 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A dad1e4a4aa2f

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triage is a command published in the GitHub repository coleam00/Archon (23,366 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,105 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.