TRIDENT

Trident is a local AI coding agent built to work alongside developers directly inside their projects. It can understand a codebase, inspect and modify files, run commands, research information from the web, explain code, plan changes, and carry out multi-step development tasks through a conversational interface.

At the center of Trident is a custom proprietary language model developed specifically for coding and agentic software workflows. The model is designed to reason about source code, project structure, development tasks, and tool usage, allowing Trident to move beyond code completion and operate as an active development assistant capable of working across an entire project.

Trident is available through both a command-line interface and a Visual Studio Code extension, with a shared engine and persistent sessions between them. Developers can begin a task in the terminal and continue it from the editor while retaining the same conversation and project context.

The system is designed around controlled agentic execution. Trident can read and search files, make focused edits, create new files, execute shell commands, inspect project changes, and access information from the web when required. Actions that can modify the development environment are governed by configurable permissions, giving developers control over what Trident can perform automatically and what requires approval.

A dedicated Plan Mode allows Trident to explore a project, understand dependencies, identify relevant files, and produce an implementation strategy without modifying anything. When changes are allowed, Trident can move from planning into implementation while keeping the developer informed about the actions being performed.

Trident also maintains persistent project sessions and development context, making it suitable for work that spans multiple interactions rather than isolated prompts. Built-in workflows support code review, improvement, refactoring, project exploration, task tracking, file context, change inspection, and conversation management.

Because Trident operates locally, project files, prompts, conversations, and coding context remain on the user's machine during model inference. This makes it particularly suited to private codebases and development environments where greater control over code and AI execution is important.

Trident is being developed as a focused AI development environment where the model, coding tools, permissions, project context, terminal workflows, and editor experience operate as one integrated system—giving developers an AI agent capable of understanding a project and helping take software tasks from idea to implementation.