deploy-new-instance

Deploy Trinity

ℹ️ First, set expectations: before anything else, print one short line with this skill's version and its most recent change — the top entry of metadata.changelog above — e.g. deploy-new-instance vX.Y — recent: <summary>. Then proceed.

Set up a Trinity instance and create a complete operations agent to manage it.

What you'll get:

• A running Trinity instance (if fresh install) — your own self-hosted operating system for the AI-native company
• A fully configured ops agent cloned from trinity-ops-public
• 13 built-in skills: /status, /restart, /update, /logs, /agents, /cleanup, /diagnose, /rebuild-agent, /rollback, /telemetry, /provision, /migrate-to-postgres, /sync-ops-knowledge

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STEP 1: Deployment Mode

Use AskUserQuestion:

• Question: "How will you run Trinity?"
• Header: "Trinity Deployment"
• Options:
  1. DigitalOcean, guided installer — Trinity's own one-command installer: a new Droplet behind HTTPS in about ten minutes (~$48/month, billed by DigitalOcean)
  2. Self-hosted, remote server — VPS, GCP, AWS, or any SSH-accessible machine
  3. Self-hosted, local Docker — Docker running on this machine

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PATH A: DigitalOcean (guided installer)

Trinity ships its own installer for this (scripts/deploy/trinity-do-create.sh, v0.9.5+): it creates a stock Ubuntu Droplet (s-4vcpu-8gb, about $48/month until the Droplet is deleted), installs Trinity from prebuilt images on first boot, and serves it over HTTPS with a real certificate for the IP address. There is no managed Trinity hosting — this is the least-infrastructure path.

The installer asks for the admin password and a Claude subscription token in the user's own terminal. Never run it from this session and never ask for either secret here — the script is built to keep them off the screen and out of shell history.

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## DigitalOcean Install

Run these in your own terminal (on Windows: inside WSL):

1. Install DigitalOcean's CLI (doctl) and authorise it:   doctl auth init
2. Create a Claude subscription token:                     claude setup-token
   (an sk-ant-oat01-… value — the installer refuses sk-ant-api03- API keys;
    add an API key later under Settings → Integrations if you prefer one)
3. Pick an admin password: 12+ characters with upper/lowercase, a digit and a symbol.
4. Run the installer — it installs the release it was fetched from:

   bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abilityai/trinity/v0.9.5/scripts/deploy/trinity-do-create.sh)

   (newer release? swap the tag — https://github.com/abilityai/trinity/releases)
   It asks for the password, the token, a region and a Droplet name, shows the cost,
   and asks before creating anything. About six minutes end to end.
5. When it prints "Trinity is ready", open https://<droplet-ip> and sign in as admin.
   First-run setup opens — "Secure this instance" is the step worth doing now.

Full guide: https://docs.ability.ai/getting-started/deploying/digitalocean