atelier: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

atelier GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from ahamedzoha/atelier. It costs 305 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project-specific instructions for working on the atelier codebase, including its required reading, operating modes, commands, and playbooks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when starting a session, checking the current project mode, tracking progress, or following workflows such as milestones and architecture reviews.
Why use it?
They tell an AI assistant how much code it may write and which project rules to follow before changing anything.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

Written for Gemini CLI: the file is GEMINI.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Gemini CLI.

This is ahamedzoha/atelier's own configuration. It tells Gemini CLI how to work on atelier itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything atelier configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ahamedzoha/atelier. 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/ahamedzoha/atelier/main/GEMINI.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ahamedzoha/atelier

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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Per session 305 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 305 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00305 $0.00305
Opus 5.5 $0.00122 $0.00122
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00061 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00030

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 57a7b8b860b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atelier 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 1mo 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 · 28 lines

What it actually says

GEMINI.md

This project's full AI contract lives in AGENTS.md. Read it in full and treat it as canonical — this file only orients you.

First thing, every session

  1. Read PROJECT.md.
  2. If its status is UNINITIALIZED, this is a freshly cloned template. Greet the user and run the onboarding interview in docs/playbooks/start.md before anything else.
  3. Otherwise, note the active mode (in PROJECT.md) and obey its rules (AGENTS.md §2), and note the current phase.

The mode is binding

This repo dials how much code you write, from guided (you write none — docs only) through collab to autopilot (you write it all, and teach as you go). Read the current mode from PROJECT.md every session. In guided mode, never edit application source — deliver code as annotated snippets the user types in.

Commands

Repo commands live in .gemini/commands/*.toml and each runs a playbook from docs/playbooks/: /start, /mode, /milestone, /progress, /adr-review. You can also just ask for any of them by name and read the matching playbook file.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 28 lines · 305 tokens per session scan A 57a7b8b860b4

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atelier GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ahamedzoha/atelier (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 305 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-31.

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