trellis AGENTS.md

trellis AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from craigcossairt/trellis. It costs 3,686 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Trellis that explain how coding agents should work in its codebase. They cover project context, current-state sources, research expectations, plain-language explanations, and when to seek expert review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on Trellis to find the current project information, research before advising, give actionable guidance, and flag legal, accounting, or security review when needed.
Why use it?
They help agents avoid relying on outdated project details, unsupported assumptions, or tool-specific instructions in the wrong place.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

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/craigcossairt/trellis/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/craigcossairt/trellis

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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README.md
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Per session 3,686 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3,686 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 5.1 $0.03686 $0.03686
Opus 5 $0.01843 $0.01843
Sonnet 5 $0.00737 $0.00737
Haiku 4.5 $0.00369 $0.00369

Measured 5d ago against content hash c302f10a7809, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trellis AGENTS.md 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 5d 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.

AGENTS.md · 274 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 274 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md -

Canonical instructions for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and others). Keep this file harness-agnostic: anything specific to one tool belongs in that tool's own config directory (.claude/, .cursor/, etc.). CLAUDE.md imports this file, so never duplicate content between the two.

Project

  • Name:
  • What it is:
  • Owner:
  • Stage:
  • For the owner's background and working style, see docs/about-me.md

What I Need From Agents

  • Research before advising - verify current facts (pricing, APIs, legal) before recommending
  • When writing code, explain what you're doing and why in plain language
  • If uncertain, say so explicitly - never fabricate facts or statistics
  • Skip long preambles - get to the point
  • Flag when professional review is needed (lawyer, accountant, security auditor)
  • Default to actionable advice that can be executed this week

Current State - Source of Truth Pointers

This file does NOT own current priorities, active deadlines, or in-progress work. Those change too fast for a static config file. Read the live sources below before acting on anything that depends on what's currently active or due:

  • Active issues + priorities -
  • Decision history (what was decided, when, why) - docs/decision-log.md
  • Known bug patterns - docs/common-gotchas.md

What this file owns: stable conventions (tech stack, methodology, file structure, owner context). The test for whether something belongs here: "Will this still be true in 6 months?" If no, it goes in the issue tracker, not here.

Tech Stack

Layer Technology
Frontend
Backend
Database
Hosting
Issue Tracking
Error Tracking

Read the full file on GitHub · 274 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. 5d ago First seen · 274 lines · 3,686 tokens per session scan A c302f10a7809

Subscribe to this mod's changes

trellis AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository craigcossairt/trellis (4 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,686 tokens to every session, about $0.0184 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.