trellis-before-dev

trellis-before-dev is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yuqie6/ProductFlow. It costs 70 tokens per session (415 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-guideline discovery workflow that reads requirements, design notes, and package-specific rules before coding begins. It finds the relevant instructions for the part of the repository being changed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a coding task, when changing packages, or when you need the correct testing, error-handling, and implementation guidance.
Why use it?
It prevents implementation from starting with missing local conventions or requirements, which can lead to rework and inconsistent code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Not installable on its own: it runs a file from its repository that does not travel with it. Clone the repository, or install whatever ships that file. The line is python3 ./.trellis/scripts/get_context.py --mode packages.

Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 415 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00070 $0.00415
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00208
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00042

Measured 6d ago against content hash 859894f2e825, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

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 6d 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

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/trellis-before-dev/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Read the relevant development guidelines before starting your task.

Execute these steps:

  1. Read current task artifacts:

    • prd.md for requirements and acceptance criteria
    • design.md if present for technical design
    • implement.md if present for execution order and validation plan
  2. Discover packages and their spec layers:

    python3 ./.trellis/scripts/get_context.py --mode packages
    
  3. 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
  4. Read the spec index for each relevant module:

    cat .trellis/spec/<package>/<layer>/index.md
    

    Follow the "Pre-Development Checklist" section in the index.

  5. 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.

  6. Always read shared guides:

    cat .trellis/spec/guides/index.md
    
  7. Understand the coding standards and patterns you need to follow, then proceed with your development plan.

This step is mandatory before writing any code.

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. 6d ago First seen · 41 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 859894f2e825

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trellis-before-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository yuqie6/ProductFlow (301 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 415 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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