What is MiniClaw GEMINI.md?

Repository instructions for MiniClaw, a small TypeScript MCP server that helps AI clients understand projects and safely work with an IDE workspace.

Use them when building, running, or modifying MiniClaw’s workspace detection, command execution, context handling, feedback-based evolution, or MCP integration.

They explain the project’s architecture, build process, terminal-command safeguards, and development conventions.

How 8421bit/MiniClaw configures Gemini CLI

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Per session 636 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 636 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00636	$0.00636
Opus 5.5	$0.00254	$0.00254
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00127	$0.00127
Haiku 4.5	$0.00064	$0.00064

Measured 2mo ago against content hash b3f60a6854cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

MiniClaw GEMINI.md 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 2mo 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.

GEMINI.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MiniClaw

Project Overview

MiniClaw is a minimalist, open-source "micro-kernel agent" designed as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for clients like Claude CoWork, Qoderwork, and WorkBuddy. It acts as a "Digital Life Embryo" or an AI Copilot for IDEs, providing advanced features such as:

Workspace Intelligence: Automatically detects project types, Git status, and tech stacks.
Agentic Execution: Can safely execute terminal commands (with strict whitelists and security constraints).
Adaptive Context Engine (ACE): Smartly manages context to save tokens and improve focus.
Affect System & Nociception: Simulates internal emotional states and pain memory to influence behavior and protect against repeated failures.
Bio-Evolution: Evolves its persona and skills based on user feedback and interactions, storing its "DNA" in markdown and JSON files.

The project is built with TypeScript and uses the @modelcontextprotocol/sdk. It follows a micro-kernel architecture (~1400 lines of core code) divided into Kernel, Evolution, Interface, and DNA layers.

Building and Running

The project uses npm for package management and tsc for building TypeScript.

Install dependencies:
```
npm install
```
Build the project:
```
npm run build
```
Start the agent (production):
```
npm start
```
Run tests:
```
npm test
```
Zero-Install (npx) Usage (for MCP clients): Configure the MCP client with:
```
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "github:8421bit/miniclaw"]
```

Development Conventions

Language: TypeScript (src/ directory).
Testing: Uses vitest for unit testing (tests/ directory).
Architecture:
- src/kernel.ts: Core brain handling ACE, affect system, and entity graph.
- src/evolution.ts: DNA evolution engine and pattern detection.
- src/index.ts: MCP protocol implementation and IPC.
- templates/: Contains the "DNA" of the agent (e.g., SOUL.md, USER.md, TOOLS.md, jobs.json) which dictates behavior, memory, and scheduled tasks.
Security: Strict security measures are enforced for command execution. Only whitelisted commands (e.g., git, ls, npm) are allowed, while destructive commands (rm, sudo) and sensitive directories (~/.ssh, .env) are blocked.
Task Scheduling: Supports internal scheduling via jobs.json and background execution via macOS launchd and scripts/daemon.sh.
Deployment: Always rebuild the project (npm run build) before pushing code to GitHub to ensure dist/ is perfectly synced with src/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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.

2mo ago First seen · 50 lines · 636 tokens per session scan A b3f60a6854cf

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MiniClaw GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository 8421bit/MiniClaw (132 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 636 tokens to every session, about $0.0025 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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MiniClaw: Instructions file for Gemini CLI