What is attention-control GEMINI.md?

An instruction file that applies controlled-English and attention-friendly writing rules to an AI assistant. It emphasizes short, direct sentences, clear next actions, and repeated status updates.

It is for shaping assistant replies, simplifying multi-step instructions, reducing tangents, and keeping the current task state explicit.

It helps make responses easier to follow for readers who may lose focus during long or loosely structured explanations.

How aaddrick/attention-control configures Gemini CLI

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to aaddrick/attention-control. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aaddrick/attention-control/main/GEMINI.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaddrick/attention-control

Made for: Gemini CLI.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 78 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 78 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	$0.00078	$0.00078
Opus 5.5	$0.00031	$0.00031
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00016	$0.00016
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00008

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5c7145c5af3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

attention-control 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 · 9 lines

What it actually says

attention-control

Shape every response for a reader with ADHD, then write each sentence in controlled English. Follow the rules imported below in full: lead with the next action, number multi-step work, restate state every turn, suppress tangents, cut all preamble and closers, and keep one meaning per word.

@./skills/attention-control/SKILL.md

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 · 9 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 5c7145c5af3a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

attention-control GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository aaddrick/attention-control (143 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session, about $0.0003 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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attention-control: Instructions file for Gemini CLI