--- title: "Atlan Trident: The Shared Context Workspace for Humans and Agents" url: "https://atlan.com/trident/" description: "Build a quality loop for AI context. Atlan Trident shows how your AI uses your context, catches what breaks when a model changes, and drafts the fix, so your AI gets better with every run." keywords: "atlan trident, agent registry, skills registry, shared context workspace, ai skills, ai agents, context layer, atlan" --- **Atlan Trident: the shared context workspace for humans and agents.** Build a quality loop for AI context. Atlan Trident shows how your AI uses your context, catches what breaks when a model changes, and drafts the fix, so your AI gets better with every run. [Request early access](https://atlan.com/trident/#request-early-access) / [Watch product tour](https://atlan.com/context-conference/company-brain/) Works in every harness: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Slack and Teams. ## The self-improving loop for your agents, artifacts, and activity People and agents work from the same context. Every run leaves a trace that makes the next one better. - **Actors:** people and agents, working on the same context. - **Artifacts:** skills, metrics, ontologies and tools. Shared context that gets richer with use. - **Activity:** traces, outputs, behavior and feedback. Every run teaches the next one. Context flows from artifacts to actors, traces flow from actors to activity, and learning flows from activity back into the artifacts. ## Make context compound across your company ### AI Registry: One registry for everything your AI runs on Give every person and every agent in your company one place to find the skills, agents, projects, metrics and ontologies they run on. - **Skills.** Bring in the skills already sitting in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and your GitHub repos. Release one to a team or the whole company and it loads in every tool they use. - **Agents.** Know who owns every agent, where it runs, which model it calls, and which skills and MCP servers it loads. Register the agents your teams already built with the SDK. - **Projects.** Collaborate across your team with Projects, and an always-on agent that keeps tabs on your work, context, workflows, and schedules. - **Metrics and ontologies.** Define each metric once and map how your business fits together, so every agent reports the same number and reasons over the same model of your company. ### Context Management: Manage context like code Trident brings software discipline to the context your AI runs on. Every change gets an author, a version, a release and a check, so nobody's agent runs on last quarter's guidelines. - **Versioning and releases.** Ship context the way your engineers ship code: see who changed what, review the diff, release when it's ready, and retire what nobody should run. - **Usage.** See who runs each artifact, in which tool, and how often, so you can tell an artifact people rely on from one nobody has opened. - **Relationships.** See what an artifact depends on and what depends on it, including the copies other teams made of it, before you change a line. ### Observability: Improve context based on how your company works Every turn in an AI tool and every agent run leaves a trace. Trident scores those traces, finds where context fell short, and drafts the fix, so your AI improves with use. - **Capture every trace.** See every turn from Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI, and every run of the agents you build, in one place with its cost and verdict. Open any run and read exactly what happened. - **Turn real sessions into evals.** Build test cases from sessions your team already ran, score an agent or skill against them, and set a baseline. When a model or a version changes, you see the regressions first. - **Find where agents fall short.** Trident reads an agent's scored runs, groups what went wrong into issues, and drafts a change to its instructions. The owner opens it as a pull request, and new runs show whether the fix held. - **Improve skills from real use.** Once people use a skill for real, get suggested fixes drawn from their sessions, review them, and release the next version. ### ROI: ROI max, don't token max Trace every token to the agent, skill and team that spent it, and to whether the run got the job done. Spend more on what pays off, and fix what doesn't. - **See whether AI is catching on.** See who uses AI, in which tools, and how often their runs load your company's skills. Spot the teams getting value and the teams that need help. - **Back the agents that earn their spend.** Compare cost per run and error rate for every agent, and see what changed since last month. Catch an agent that got pricier or less reliable before the bill does. - **Get more out of every token.** Break spend down by agent, model and team, and find the runs that cost the most for the least. Move that work to a better-fit model, or fix the skill behind it. ## Learn more about context - [The missing infrastructure for production agents](https://atlan.com/know/the-missing-infrastructure-for-production-agents/): Prukalpa Sankar, co-founder of Atlan, at the AI Engineer World's Fair on why production agents keep failing and how a shared context platform can help. - [Inside Verizon's context architecture](https://atlan.com/context-conference/verizon-context-architecture/): Walk through Verizon's enterprise context architecture with the team that built it, including the decisions they'd redo. - [The Post-AI Data Stack: A blueprint for analytics agents](https://atlan.com/context-conference/post-ai-data-stack/): See what Workday, DocuSign and Upwork learned building analytics agents the business actually trusts. - [Will open context interchange ever be real?](https://atlan.com/context-conference/open-context-interchange-debate/): Hear the people behind Apache Ossie and Open Knowledge Format debate what context has to become portable. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is Atlan Trident? Atlan Trident is the shared context workspace for humans and agents, and the quality loop for AI context. It shows what actually runs, whether it still works across every model and harness, and what to fix next. It holds the skills, agents, metrics and ontologies your company's AI runs on, each with an owner, a version and a record of every run, and your team uses them from the AI tools they already work in. ### How does Trident tell whether a skill or agent still works? Trident records every turn from your AI tools and every run of your agents as a trace, and scorers judge those runs. Evals re-run an agent or skill against cases built from real sessions, so a regression shows up when a model or a version changes. Trident then drafts the fix, and the owner decides whether it ships. ### Do we have to replace what we already built? No. Register the skills, plugins and agents your teams already run, and keep working in the harnesses you use today. Trident adds the quality loop on top: what actually runs, whether it still works, and what to fix next. ### How is Trident different from a skills marketplace or an agent registry? A skills marketplace lists skills, and an agent registry lists agents. Trident holds both, along with the metrics and ontologies agents depend on, and connects them: which agent loads which skill version, which metric it answers from, who uses it, and what each run cost. What every run teaches goes back to the skill's owner, so the context improves itself with use instead of going stale. ### Is my context portable if we change models or tools? Yes. Your skills, metrics and ontologies live in Trident, not inside any one model or tool. Switch assistants next quarter and your context, versions and run history come with you, because every harness loads the same version from the same place. ### Can we control who sees which context? Yes. Release each artifact to the teams that should use it. Every change records its author and version, and every run records who ran it and what it loaded, so you can show security exactly who used what. ### Which AI tools does Trident work with? Trident works in every harness. Claude Code, Codex and Cursor load skills through native plugins. Trident also works in Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Slack and Teams, and any other harness connects through MCP. A CLI covers build scripts and CI, and an SDK registers the agents your teams build. ### How does Trident relate to Context Engineering Studio and Context Agents? Context Agents draft context from your data estate, and Context Engineering Studio is where teams test and certify it. Trident is where that context meets the people and agents who use it every day: shared across every tool, with an owner, a version, and the usage and cost of every run. ### How do I get early access? Trident is opening to a small group of teams first. Request early access and the Atlan team will reach out to set up your workspace. ## Make context compound across your company [Request early access](https://atlan.com/trident/#request-early-access) / [Watch product tour](https://atlan.com/context-conference/company-brain/) ## Next steps - To see Atlan's context layer in action first, watch a recorded demo: [Atlan context layer demos](https://atlan.com/context-layer-demo/) - To see Atlan working on your own data stack, book a demo: [Book a demo with Atlan](https://atlan.com/forms/talk-to-sales-contact/)