Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to hsingjui/ContextWeaver. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hsingjui/ContextWeaver/main/.agents/skills/trellis-before-dev/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hsingjui/ContextWeaverWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hsingjui/contextweaver/trellis-before-dev)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hsingjui/contextweaver/trellis-before-dev"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hsingjui/contextweaver/trellis-before-dev/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hsingjui/contextweaver/trellis-before-dev"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hsingjui/contextweaver/trellis-before-dev.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00070 | $0.00592 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00028 | $0.00237 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00118 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00059 |
Grade A, and why
trellis-before-dev 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 1mo 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.
What it actually says
Read the relevant development guidelines before starting your task.
Execute these steps:
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Read current task artifacts:
prd.mdfor requirements and acceptance criteriadesign.mdif present for technical designimplement.mdif present for execution order and validation plan
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Discover packages and their spec layers:
python3 ./.trellis/scripts/get_context.py --mode packages -
Identify which specs apply to your task based on:
- Which package you're modifying (e.g.,
cli/,docs-site/) - What type of work (backend, frontend, unit-test, docs, etc.)
- Any spec/research paths referenced by the task artifacts
- Which package you're modifying (e.g.,
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Read the spec index for each relevant module:
cat .trellis/spec/<package>/<layer>/index.mdFollow the "Pre-Development Checklist" section in the index.
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Read the specific guideline files listed in the Pre-Development Checklist that are relevant to your task. The index is NOT the goal — it points you to the actual guideline files (e.g.,
error-handling.md,conventions.md,mock-strategies.md). Read those files to understand the coding standards and patterns. -
Always read shared guides:
cat .trellis/spec/guides/index.md -
For a non-trivial task, state the change boundary before writing code. Non-trivial means it touches more than one file, crosses a layer, changes a public interface, or edits code you did not just write. Write down:
- the smallest behavior gap between what happens now and what should happen
- where that behavior actually lives (not where it is easiest to intercept)
- which files you expect to change, and why each one is necessary
- what you are explicitly not doing in this task
- if a local refactor is needed, how you will show it did not change behavior
A small, well-scoped change does not need this — do it directly.
If the real scope turns out to be clearly larger than this, say so and why before continuing. Do not widen the change on your own.
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Understand the coding standards and patterns you need to follow, then proceed with your development plan.
This step is mandatory before writing any code.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 52 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 00c9d1c83bc3
trellis-before-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository hsingjui/ContextWeaver (297 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 592 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-07.
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