config-init

A command that creates a blank Gnosys configuration file in a writable configuration store.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create the blank template when no configuration file exists, or use it to see the recommended setup path.
Why use it?
It provides a starting file when you need to create configuration manually. The command is deprecated in favour of the interactive setup command and writes the file only with --force.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/proticom/gnosys/config-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proticom/gnosys
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 451 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 $0.00451
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00226
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash 03b5a5bdd4b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

config-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.

docs/commands/config-init.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

gnosys config init

Generate a blank gnosys.json template in the active writable store.

Deprecated: prefer gnosys setup for interactive configuration.

Usage

gnosys config init
gnosys config init --force

Behavior

  • Without --force: prints a deprecation warning pointing to gnosys setup, then exits without writing any file.
  • With --force: writes a blank config template to <writable-store>/gnosys.json when that file does not already exist.
  • Exits with No writable store found. when no writable store is available.
  • Exits with gnosys.json already exists. Use 'gnosys config set' to modify. when the target config file is already present.
  • On success with --force, prints Created <path>.

Output example (default, no --force)

gnosys config init

  ! writing a blank template means the next run of `gnosys setup`
  ! will walk you through the same choices anyway

     try   gnosys setup        interactive walkthrough (recommended)

  re-run with --force to write the template anyway

Platform notes

macOS

  • Writable store is typically project ./.gnosys or personal ~/.gnosys.
  • Template is written as gnosys.json inside the store directory.

Linux

  • Same store resolution as macOS. Run gnosys init first if no stores exist.

Windows

  • Paths in success/error messages may use backslashes; behavior is the same as on Unix.
  • Prefer gnosys setup on all platforms for first-time configuration.

Validation

cd gnosys-public
npm run cli -- config init --help
npm run cli -- config init
npm run cli -- config init --force
  • gnosys setup — recommended interactive walkthrough (replaces plain config init).
  • gnosys config set — modify an existing gnosys.json.
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 · 64 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 03b5a5bdd4b2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

config-init is a command published in the GitHub repository proticom/gnosys (4 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 451 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 2026-08-31.