atomicmemory-python GEMINI.md

A repository guide for atomicmemory-python, a Python client library for the AtomicMemory memory service. It explains the project layout, development tools, and coding rules contributors should follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for making and reviewing changes to the Python package, its tests, and its examples while following the repository's tooling and service-contract rules.
Why use it?
It tells coding agents which files to read, which Python environment and commands to use, and how to check formatting, types, and tests before changing the library.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

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 instructions/atomicstrata/atomicmemory-python/gemini-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atomicstrata/atomicmemory-python

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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When invoked 761 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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Opus 5 $0.00380 $0.00380
Sonnet 5 $0.00152 $0.00152
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Measured yesterday against content hash 54ae1cff80d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atomicmemory-python 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to atomicmemory-python AGENTS.md — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

GEMINI.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

atomicmemory-python — agent rules

Python client SDK for the AtomicMemory memory layer.

Contributor Context

Use this file as the repo-local contributor guide. When behavior depends on another AtomicMemory repo, rely on the published HTTP/package contract and call out any assumption in the PR.

Before changing code, read the relevant local files first:

  • README.md for user-facing installation and usage.
  • pyproject.toml for supported Python versions, dependencies, and tool config.
  • atomicmemory/ for package code and tests/ for expected behavior.

Repository Shape

  • atomicmemory/ — typed Python package.
  • tests/ — unit and integration tests.
  • examples/ — public usage examples.
  • pyproject.toml — package metadata and tool configuration.

Tooling

  • Package management: uv sync (NOT uv pip install).
  • Python interpreter: .venv/bin/python. Never the global python.
  • HTTP: httpx (sync Client, async AsyncClient).
  • Validation: pydantic>=2.7. jsonschema only when validating against external JSON schemas.
  • Lint/format: ruff (line=120). ruff format --check . is part of pre-commit.
  • Types: mypy --strict.
  • Dead code / static health: vulture --min-confidence 90. The whitelist file .vulture_whitelist.py MUST be included in every invocation (it allowlists Protocol-method parameter names and context-manager dunder args). Use the [tool.vulture] config (uv run vulture) or pass it explicitly: uv run vulture atomicmemory tests .vulture_whitelist.py --min-confidence 90. fallow is TypeScript-only and is not part of this repo's verification.
  • Tests: pytest, pytest-asyncio, pytest-mock, respx. Integration tests gated behind -m integration.

Code rules

  • File ≤400 lines (excl. comments/docstrings); function ≤40 lines (excl. catch/finally and docstrings); test files ≤400 lines; tests ≤40 lines.
  • Google-style docstrings (Args:, Returns:, Raises:).
  • Module docstring at the top of every file. For modules that port a specific TS file, include the TS source-of-truth path ("""Port of atomicmemory-sdk/src/.../foo.ts.""").
  • No fallback values; no os.getenv in business code (config flows through Pydantic models constructed at startup).
  • No silent except. No bare except:.
  • Greenfield code — no backwards-compat hacks, no _ private renames for "removed" code.
  • Snake_case for Python attributes; Pydantic Field(alias="apiUrl") aliases preserve TS camelCase wire format.
  • Keep public API behavior aligned with atomicmemory-sdk where both SDKs expose the same concept.
  • Prefer integration tests with a real HTTP path for client behavior; use mocks only for narrow transport errors.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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.

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atomicmemory-python GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository atomicstrata/atomicmemory-python (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 761 tokens to every session, about $0.0038 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to atomicmemory-python AGENTS.md, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.