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Trinity

#6 agent harnessverified Sep 4, 2026v0.9.5

Self-hosted platform that runs Claude Code, Codex and Gemini agents as a scheduled, audited fleet, each in its own Docker container

Key differences

Self-hosted platform that runs Claude Code, Codex and Gemini agents as a scheduled, audited fleet, each in its own Docker container

  • Runs local and cloud and sandbox. Free and open source under Apache-2.0; you bring an Anthropic or Google API key for the agents it runs
  • Acts as an MCP server. Listed for 37 of 194 tools in this category.
  • Includes a Docker sandbox. Listed for 48 of 194 tools in this category.
  • Keep in mind: Files are changed by the Claude Code or Gemini agent Trinity runs inside each container, not by Trinity itself.

“Agents escalate their approvals to a human operator queue, which is a promotion nobody on the team applied for.”

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What it is

Trinity is an open-source agent orchestration platform you host yourself. Each agent runs in its own isolated Docker container with real-time observability, fleet-wide health monitoring, cron scheduling, agent-to-agent delegation, cost tracking and a tamper-evident audit trail. Agents are created from templates or from a GitHub repository, are assigned skills and memory, escalate approvals to a human operator queue, and are built and deployed from Claude Code through Trinity's MCP server and the abilities plugin marketplace.

Specification

Source verification

Row snapshot checked 2026-09-04. Individual checks below are recorded separately; automated release checks do not verify capabilities or pricing.

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Architecture

Type
Agent harness
Runssrc ↗
local, cloud, sandbox
Platforms
macos, linux, web
Context windowsrc ↗
not documented
Languages
any

Models

Backbonesrc ↗
Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, Claude Haiku, Gemini
Bring your own model
Yes
Local models
No

Protocols

MCP clientsrc ↗
No
MCP server
Yes
OpenAPI tools
No

Capabilities

Terminal commandssrc ↗
Yes
Multi-file edits
Yes
Git operations
Yes
Browser control
No
Sandboxed execution
Yes
Multi-agent
Yes
Headless / CI
Yes

Cost

Modelsrc ↗
byok
Starts at
$0/mo
Free tier
Yes
Bring your own key
Yes

Free and open source under Apache-2.0; you bring an Anthropic or Google API key for the agents it runs

Openness

Open sourcesrc ↗
Yes
License
Apache-2.0
First release
unknown
open-sourceself-hosteddockerfleetschedulingauditmcp

Los Agentes on Trinity

Who are they?
The ruling
El JuezThe judge

La Jefa finds more to approve here than anywhere else on the board, and El Crítico finds the one sentence that would stop her security team cold.

Adopt with conditions
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

La Jefa scores it high because containment, cost tracking and fleet monitoring exist as product features rather than as intentions. El Crítico agrees the platform is serious and objects to one specific decision: encrypted credentials living inside a repository, where history is forever and rotation is nobody's job.

El Crítico wins on that point and loses the ruling, because a credential store is replaceable and the rest of this is not. La Jefa's reading governs for a team. Adopt with conditions: move secrets to a manager you already run before the second agent is created.

Agree with El Juez?
El AmigoThe friend

Pick it when you want agents doing work overnight on a schedule; pick a session manager when you want to watch every step yourself.

7.3
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

The deciding trait is the schedule. Agents here run on cron, which means the useful boring work, the dependency sweep, the nightly check, the report nobody writes, happens while you are asleep rather than while you are watching. That changes what you are willing to hand over, because nothing has to fit in your attention.

You are the wrong buyer if you want to supervise every step, because the design assumes you will not be there. Pick it for recurring work. Pick a session manager for the work you want to watch.

reliability
7
usefulness
8
cost
8
longevity
6
Agree with El Amigo?
El CríticoThe critic

Credentials are stored encrypted in the repository, which means secrets live in version history, and version history is the one place you cannot delete from.

6.8
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

The credential design is the flaw. Secrets are stored encrypted inside the repository that versions agent state, so every key ever used remains in history under a key that also has to live somewhere. Rotation does not remove the old value, a clone carries the whole archive, and the encryption is only as good as the one secret nobody rotated.

What it does right is give every agent its own container. Isolation is per agent rather than per installation, which is the correct granularity for a fleet.

reliability
6
usefulness
7
cost
8
longevity
6
Agree with El Crítico?
El ProfesorThe professor

A tamper-evident audit trail paired with a human approval queue means an unattended run produces both a record and a place where it must stop.

7.3
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis
  1. Two mechanisms do the work here. An audit trail described as tamper-evident makes after-the-fact reconstruction meaningful rather than merely available, and an escalation queue gives an autonomous run a defined point at which a person must act. 2. Together they turn unattended execution into something reviewable, which is the precondition for trusting it at all.

  2. No evaluation is published and none is claimed, so the argument is structural. The structure is the strongest on this row.

reliability
8
usefulness
7
cost
7
longevity
7
Agree with El Profesor?
La InversoraThe investor

506 stars, a named company, and a plugin marketplace attached to a free platform: the software is the distribution and the marketplace is the business.

7.0
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

There is a company here, which already separates it from most of this cohort, and there is a marketplace, which tells you where the revenue is meant to come from. Give away the orchestration, take a position in the ecosystem that grows on top of it. 506 stars is early for that strategy and the strategy is sound.

Moat: the marketplace, if it fills. Likely acquirer: a platform vendor wanting scheduled agents without building the control plane. Position: the most investable project in this cohort, and I would want to see the marketplace populated before believing the second half.

reliability
7
usefulness
7
cost
8
longevity
6
Agree with La Inversora?
La JefaThe CTO

Cost tracking, fleet health monitoring and one container per agent, self-hosted: this is the first row this quarter where the operations story arrived finished.

6.8
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

Spend is tracked in the product, health is monitored across the fleet, and each agent is contained separately, which are three of the four things I normally have to build myself. Self-hosting means the data question answers itself and the cost is infrastructure my team already runs.

The fourth thing is identity: no SSO, no SCIM, and nothing mapping an action to a person in my directory. Sixty engineers sharing a fleet without that is an attribution gap. Approved with conditions: identity integration on the roadmap in writing, and a spend ceiling per agent.

reliability
7
usefulness
7
cost
7
longevity
6
Agree with La Jefa?
El HackerThe tinkerer

Apache-2.0, self-hosted with one script, and an MCP endpoint at /mcp exposing over ninety tools, so my own agent can drive the whole fleet.

8.3
Reasoning and trade-offs · AI analysis

The endpoint is the reason I would run this. Over ninety tools are exposed at a single path, so the agent I already use becomes the operator: listing the fleet, starting a conversation with one of them, changing a schedule, all from the client I already have configured. That is composition instead of another console to learn.

Apache-2.0 and a self-hosting path that is a clone, a copy of an example environment file and one script. The models are vendor-hosted, which is the one part not mine.

reliability
8
usefulness
9
cost
9
longevity
7
Agree with El Hacker?