Appendix B: Command & Skill Cheat Sheet

Trellis ships only a small session-boundary command surface. Everything else is an auto-trigger skill or a sub-agent. This is intentional: commands are for explicit user boundaries; the rest of the workflow runs itself.

Slash Commands (per platform)

finish-work and continue are the normal user-invoked commands. start is only user-facing on platforms that do not auto-inject session context.

Platform	Start	Finish	Continue	Delivery form
Claude Code / OpenCode / Gemini CLI / CodeBuddy / Droid	automatic SessionStart hook	`/trellis:finish-work`	`/trellis:continue`	Slash command
Cursor / Pi Agent / Qoder	automatic SessionStart hook or extension	`/trellis-finish-work`	`/trellis-continue`	Native command / prompt
Kiro	`@trellis:start`	`@trellis:finish-work`	`@trellis:continue`	Skill via `@` picker
Kilo	`/start.md`	`/finish-work.md`	`/continue.md`	Workflow file (`.kilocode/workflows/`)
Antigravity / Devin	workflow picker → `start` / `finish-work` / `continue`			Workflow file
GitHub Copilot	Run Prompt → `trellis-start` / `trellis-finish-work` / `trellis-continue`			Prompt file (`.github/prompts/`)
Codex	automatic `AGENTS.md` prelude; optional UserPromptSubmit hook	skill / prompt entry	skill / prompt entry	Skills + hooks

Auto-trigger Skills

These are matched by the platform based on user intent: no explicit invocation required. Trigger them manually with your platform’s skill invocation syntax if needed.

Skill	Triggers when…	What it does
`trellis-brainstorm`	User describes a feature / bug / ambiguous request	Produces task + `prd.md`, spawns research as needed
`trellis-before-dev`	Task is in_progress and the AI is about to write code	Reads relevant spec files for the package
`trellis-check`	Implementation phase finished	Diff review, lint / typecheck / test, self-fix loop
`trellis-update-spec`	A learning / decision / gotcha is worth capturing	Adds an entry to the right spec file
`trellis-break-loop`	A tricky bug was just resolved	5-dimension root-cause + prevention analysis

Sub-agents

Spawned by the main session via the platform’s sub-agent / Task primitive.

Sub-agent	Role	Restriction
`trellis-research`	Codebase / doc search	Read-only
`trellis-implement`	Coding	No `git commit`
`trellis-check`	Verify + self-fix	Has its own retry loop

Available as real sub-agents on Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex, Kiro, Gemini CLI, Qoder, CodeBuddy, Copilot, Droid, and Pi Agent. Kilo, Antigravity, and Devin run the same work inline in the main session. Context is hook/extension-injected on Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, CodeBuddy, Droid, and Pi Agent; the other sub-agent platforms use a pull-based prelude.

Global CLI Commands

Command	Purpose	Usage
`trellis upgrade`	Upgrade the globally installed Trellis CLI package	`trellis upgrade [--tag <tag>]`
`trellis update`	Sync the current project’s Trellis files to this CLI	`trellis update [--dry-run] [--migrate] [...]`

`task.py` Subcommands

Subcommand	Purpose	Usage
`create`	Create task (also seeds `implement.jsonl` / `check.jsonl` when a sub-agent platform is installed)	`task.py create "title" [--slug name] [-a assignee] [-p priority]`
`add-context`	Add context entry (primary way to populate jsonl after `create`)	`task.py add-context "$DIR" <target> "<path>" "<reason>"`
`validate`	Validate JSONL	`task.py validate "$DIR"`
`list-context`	View all entries	`task.py list-context "$DIR"`
`start`	Set as current task for this AI session/window	`task.py start "$DIR"`
`finish`	Clear current task for this AI session/window	`task.py finish`
`set-branch`	Set branch name	`task.py set-branch "$DIR" "feature/xxx"`
`set-base-branch`	Set PR target branch	`task.py set-base-branch "$DIR" "main"`
`set-scope`	Set scope	`task.py set-scope "$DIR" "auth"`
`add-subtask`	Link child to parent	`task.py add-subtask <parent-dir> <child-dir>`
`remove-subtask`	Unlink child from parent	`task.py remove-subtask <parent-dir> <child-dir>`
`archive`	Archive task	`task.py archive <name>`
`list`	List active tasks	`task.py list [--mine] [--status <s>]`
`list-archive`	List archived tasks	`task.py list-archive [YYYY-MM]`

Python Scripts

# Context
./.trellis/scripts/get_context.py                 # Full context
./.trellis/scripts/get_context.py --json          # JSON
./.trellis/scripts/get_context.py --mode packages # Per-package spec layers (monorepo)
./.trellis/scripts/get_context.py --mode record   # For /trellis:finish-work

# Session
./.trellis/scripts/add_session.py --title "..." --commit "..." --summary "..."

# Spec bootstrap (first-time)
./.trellis/scripts/create_bootstrap.py

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Appendix B: Command & Skill Cheat Sheet