init

A project setup command that creates a .brain folder with memory and instruction files for selected AI agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it once per project before an AI session to create project memory, record session state, share context, and log activity.
Why use it?
It gives each new AI session background about the project, so you do not have to explain the same setup repeatedly.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/404-not-found/mindlink/init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/404-not-found/mindlink
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,184 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 $0.00000 $0.01184
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00592
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00118

Measured 2d ago against content hash 91e67284bf6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init 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 2d 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.

commands/init.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Set up memory for the current project.


Synopsis

mindlink init [--yes]

Description

Creates a .brain/ folder in the current directory and generates agent instruction files for the AI agents you select. Memory is scoped to the absolute path of this directory — run mindlink init separately in each project you want to give memory.

Run this before starting your AI session. The agent reads the instruction files on startup. If you init after a session has already started, the current session won't see it — the next one will.

MEMORY.md is pre-filled on day 1. mindlink init scans your project and auto-populates the Core section with what it finds: project name and description from package.json, detected tech stack, top-level directory structure, and recent git commits. Your first AI session starts already briefed — no manual setup required.


What Gets Created

your-project/
├── .brain/
│   ├── MEMORY.md     ← permanent facts: project identity, architecture, decisions
│   ├── SESSION.md    ← current session state, updated as you work
│   ├── SHARED.md     ← shared context readable and writable by any session
│   └── LOG.md        ← full history of every session ever run
├── CLAUDE.md         ← Claude Code instruction file (if selected)
├── CURSOR.md         ← Cursor instruction file (if selected)
├── AGENTS.md         ← Codex / OpenAI instruction file (if selected)
├── GEMINI.md         ← Gemini CLI instruction file (if selected)
└── ...               ← other agent files based on your selection

Interactive Prompts

mindlink init walks you through three choices.

1. Which AI agents do you use?

Select the agents you use in this project. MindLink generates the right instruction file for each one.

Agent File generated
Claude Code CLAUDE.md
Cursor CURSOR.md
Codex / OpenAI AGENTS.md
Gemini CLI GEMINI.md
GitHub Copilot .github/copilot-instructions.md
Windsurf .windsurfrules
Cline .clinerules
Aider CONVENTIONS.md
Zed .rules
Kiro .kiro/steering/mindlink.md
Continue.dev .continue/rules/mindlink.md
Trae .trae/rules/mindlink.md
Add custom agent file name of your choice

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 150 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 91e67284bf6c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a command published in the GitHub repository 404-not-found/mindlink (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,184 tokens. 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.