Trellis: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/trellis-start/SKILL.md

trellis-start is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mindfold-ai/Trellis. It costs 73 tokens per session (668 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A session setup tool that reads project instructions, your developer details, Git status, and current tasks from the .trellis folder. It also sorts a new request into a suitable work path.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting or resuming a coding session, beginning a task, or deciding how an incoming request should be handled.
Why use it?
It gathers the project context at the start of work, so the coding agent can follow local rules and resume tasks with the right background.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is mindfold-ai/Trellis's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on Trellis itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Trellis configures →

About the project

Trellis is an engineering framework that stores project specifications, tasks, and working memory in a repository so coding agents can follow consistent development practices across sessions. Teams use it to organize AI-assisted planning, implementation, review, and validation across multiple coding platforms. The catalogue entries provide Trellis commands, agents, hooks, skills, instructions, and settings.

mindfold-ai/Trellis · 14,488 stars · on GitHub · docs.trytrellis.app

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mindfold-ai/Trellis. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mindfold-ai/Trellis/main/.agents/skills/trellis-start/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mindfold-ai/Trellis

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 668 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00073 $0.00668
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00334
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00067

Measured 7d ago against content hash 79a5ba7a2aff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trellis-start 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 7d 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/skills/trellis-start/SKILL.md · 65 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 7d ago First seen · 65 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 79a5ba7a2aff

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trellis-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository mindfold-ai/Trellis (14,488 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 668 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.