trinity AGENTS.md

An orientation guide for AI agents working in Trinity, a self-hosted platform that runs agents in separate Docker containers and connects them to services such as Slack, Telegram, and WhatsApp.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find instructions for contributing code, deploying or operating Trinity, evaluating agents, and starting a Trinity instance.
Why use it?
It directs an agent to the right documentation and task-specific instructions instead of making it search the whole repository.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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 instructions/abilityai/trinity/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/trinity

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 2,588 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,588 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.02588 $0.02588
Opus 5 $0.01294 $0.01294
Sonnet 5 $0.00518 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00259 $0.00259

Measured 2d ago against content hash e444c62d9cf3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trinity AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| Stand up a new Trinity instance | [Stand up an instance](#stand-up-a-trinity-instance) | `curl /health` → `{"status": "healthy"}` |
AGENTS.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trinity — Guide for AI Agents

Trinity is an autonomous agent orchestration platform: every agent runs in its own Docker container with scheduling, observability, credential injection, channel integrations (Slack/Telegram/WhatsApp), and a tamper-evident audit trail — self-hosted on infrastructure the operator controls. Agents are plain Claude Code (or Gemini CLI) projects; Trinity is where they run in production.

Detailed documentation index: docs/user-docs/README.md — guides, agent management, credentials, automation, operations, integrations, and the full API reference live there.

Using this file

This is the authoritative entry point for AI agents. If you are an autonomous agent that just landed in this repository or connected to a Trinity instance, start here. The other root files serve different readers — README.md is for humans evaluating Trinity; CLAUDE.md is the contributor working agreement (Rules of Engagement, SDLC, architectural invariants) that Claude Code auto-loads when you edit this codebase. Read CLAUDE.md only when your task is "contribute code"; for everything else, this file is the map.

How to traverse it: find your task in Route by task → jump to that section → run the commands → stop at the Done when signal. Each task is zero-to-value: the shortest path from landing to a confirmed useful result, ending in one check you can run to prove you got there. If a step is ambiguous or a link is dead, that is a bug — report it on the issue tracker.

Route by task

Your task Go to Done when
Deploy yourself (or another agent) to a Trinity instance Deploy an agent trinity agents list (or GET /api/agents) shows the agent running
Stand up a new Trinity instance Stand up an instance curl /health{"status": "healthy"}
Operate an existing instance (chat, schedules, fleet ops) Operate over MCP an MCP tool call (e.g. list_agents) returns results over your API key
Evaluate Trinity / summarize it for your operator README.md, then docs/user-docs/README.md; system design: docs/memory/architecture.md you can state what Trinity is, how to run it, and its license
Contribute to Trinity's codebase Work on this repository — Claude Code also auto-loads CLAUDE.md tests pass and a PR is open against dev

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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 First seen · 151 lines · 2,588 tokens per session scan A e444c62d9cf3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

trinity AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/trinity (496 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,588 tokens to every session, about $0.0129 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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