tripo-3d

tripo-3d is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 274 tokens per session (5,470 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to creating 3D models with Tripo from text, one image, or several views, then preparing them with textures, rigging, animation, or format conversion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make props and characters, add physically based textures, reduce or rebuild meshes, auto-rig models, animate them, and export common 3D formats.
Why use it?
It helps turn rough 3D generation into assets that can be imported into game engines, AR projects, and other 3D workflows.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to make props and characters, add physically based textures, reduce or rebuild meshes, auto-rig models, animate them, and export common 3D formats.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/tripo-3d
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.

Any agent
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill tripo-3d
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 274 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,470 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 6 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 55
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 254
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 270
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 275
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 240
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 254
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00274 $0.05470
Opus 5 $0.00137 $0.02735
Sonnet 5 $0.00055 $0.01094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00547

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8bbf8db1a30d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tripo-3d 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 8d 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.

curl -s https://api.tripo3d.ai/v2/openapi/task \
skills/providers/3d-generation/tripo-3d/SKILL.md · 301 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 301 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tripo 3D asset generation

Tripo (product of VAST AI Research; consumer brand "Tripo AI") turns text, single images, and multi-view image sets into textured 3D meshes, then post-processes them into engine-ready assets: PBR texturing, retopology, auto-rigging, preset animation, and format conversion. It ships as a web Studio, mobile apps, and an async task-based REST API ("Tripo OpenAPI"). This skill is about producing production-usable assets through that API and Studio.

Evidence labels used below: [Doc] = official Tripo documentation/SDK; [1P] = first-party Tripo blog/marketing claim (directional, not independently verified); [3P] = disclosed third-party source; [Heuristic] = production judgment, not a documented guarantee. Volatile facts carry a verified 2026-07-10 date; re-check them, because Tripo ships model and pricing changes frequently.

When to use Tripo, and when not to

Tripo's strength is speed and coverage: a usable single-object mesh in tens of seconds to a couple of minutes, across a huge range of props, characters, and hard-surface objects, with texturing/rigging/format export in one API. [Heuristic] Reach for it when you need many game/AR/previz/3D-print assets fast, when you have a concept image or clean reference, or when you want a first-pass base mesh to refine by hand.

Do not rely on Tripo (or set expectations accordingly) for:

  • Clean production topology out of the box. Raw generation output is typically dense, organic triangulation. Use quad remesh, smart low-poly, or retopo in a DCC tool before deforming/subdividing. [Heuristic]
  • Full scenes / multi-object layouts. It generates one object per task. Compose scenes yourself.
  • Precise dimensional/CAD accuracy. It is a generative reconstruction, not a measured model. For 3D printing, verify scale, wall thickness, and manifold-ness.
  • Guaranteed likeness of real, identifiable people, or reproduction of copyrighted/branded characters. Treat these as rights risks (see Rights & licensing).
  • Text, fine logos, thin lattices, transparent/refractive materials. These are common failure classes. [Heuristic]

Read the full file on GitHub · 301 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 301 lines · 274 tokens per session scan A 8bbf8db1a30d

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tripo-3d is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 274 tokens to every session and 5,470 once invoked, about $0.0014 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 2026-09-03.