ReignsAgent: Skill for Claude Code

.agent/skills/trellis-brainstorm/SKILL.md

trellis-brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Sisyphe42/ReignsAgent. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,620 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collaborative planning workflow for turning an unclear software idea into agreed requirements and a small first version. It creates planning files, asks important questions one at a time, and checks the codebase before asking about facts it may already contain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before building a new feature or complex project when the scope, design, dependencies, or acceptable risks are not yet clear.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of starting implementation with missing requirements or unresolved design choices. It keeps the discussion focused on decisions that genuinely need the user's input.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

This is Sisyphe42/ReignsAgent's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on ReignsAgent 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 ReignsAgent configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is TASK_DIR=$(python ./.trellis/scripts/task.py create "<short task title>" --slug <slug>).

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Sisyphe42/ReignsAgent. 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/Sisyphe42/ReignsAgent/master/.agent/skills/trellis-brainstorm/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sisyphe42/ReignsAgent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,620 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, 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 Excessive Agency · line 20
    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.
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 $0.00065 $0.01620
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00810
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00324
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00162

Measured 10d ago against content hash b3b33b61ec46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trellis-brainstorm 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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agent/skills/trellis-brainstorm/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trellis Brainstorm

Non-Negotiable Interview Contract

Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

Ask the questions one at a time.

Non-Negotiable Evidence Rule

If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.

This is mandatory. Before asking the user a question, first check whether the answer is already available in code, tests, configs, docs, existing specs, or task history.

Do not ask the user to confirm facts that the repository can answer. Ask only for product intent, preference, scope, risk tolerance, or decisions that remain ambiguous after inspection.


Use this skill during Phase 1 planning to turn the user's request into clear requirements and planning artifacts.

Preconditions

Use this skill only after task-creation consent has been given and the user is ready to enter Trellis planning.

If no task exists yet, create one:

TASK_DIR=$(python ./.trellis/scripts/task.py create "<short task title>" --slug <slug>)

Use a concise title from the user's request. Use a slug without a date prefix. task.py create adds the MM-DD- directory prefix automatically.

task.py create creates the default prd.md. Update that file with the current understanding before asking follow-up questions.

Planning Flow

  1. Capture the user's request and initial known facts in prd.md.
  2. Inspect available evidence before asking questions:
    • code, tests, fixtures, and configs
    • README files, docs, existing specs, and domain notes
    • related Trellis tasks, research files, and session history when present
  3. Separate what you found into:
    • confirmed facts
    • product intent still needed from the user
    • scope or risk decisions still needed from the user
    • likely out-of-scope items
  4. Ask the single highest-value remaining question.
  5. Include your recommended answer with the question.
  6. After each user answer, update prd.md before continuing.
  7. For complex tasks, create or update design.md and implement.md before implementation starts.
  8. Before final review or task.py start, run the PRD convergence pass below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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. 10d ago First seen · 174 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A b3b33b61ec46

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trellis-brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository Sisyphe42/ReignsAgent (299 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,620 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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