scarf: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

scarf GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from awizemann/scarf. It costs 571 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of scarf copilot-instructions.md, MIT.

A set of Memophant memory-management instructions for Scarf, a software project. It explains where project notes belong and how code-based notes should link back to the files they describe.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when recording or updating Scarf's architecture, conventions, decisions, operations, project information, or roadmap. It guides memory searches, edits, source-file references, and credential handling.
Why use it?
It helps keep project knowledge organised and checkable as the code changes. It also prevents duplicate notes, unmanaged edits, and exposed credentials.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

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

This is awizemann/scarf's own configuration. It tells Gemini CLI how to work on scarf 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 scarf configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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Opus 5 $0.00285 $0.00285
Sonnet 5 $0.00114 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00057 $0.00057

Measured yesterday against content hash 114c953b80ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scarf 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 scarf copilot-instructions.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 · 12 lines

What it actually says

Memory System (managed by Memophant) — core rules. Full reference: AGENTS.md.

  1. Memory is the source of truth. Search it before assuming; record durable decisions/learnings as memory notes or wiki pages — never in this file or session-private/model memory. Search before writing and edit an existing note (edit_memory) rather than forking a near-duplicate.
  2. Prefer the memophant MCP tools for every read/write (search/read/write/edit/move) — read each tool's description (they document their args). The engine is the gate: the tool/app entry points carry the guards (slug-gen, structure validation, write-time secret scan); direct edits reconcile automatically but skip them — never compose your own guard set. Tools absent → grep the MAIN CHECKOUT's .memory/ + wiki/; a git worktree's copy of those tiers is a base-commit snapshot and is stale by construction, so never grep ./ from one.
  3. Don't git add/commit the managed tiers (.memory/, wiki/, design/, code/, sessions/, documents/, vendors/, templates/, TASKS.md, tasks/) — the user commits each via Memophant's per-tier secret-scanned bar; leave them dirty. Everything else is yours.
  4. Secrets → Keychain, never chat or files. Found or made a credential? Store it with set_vendor_credential (fetch later with get_vendor_credential); never leave it loose in chat.
  5. Agent artifacts (plans/reports/briefs) → documents/ (exact lowercase), via write_tier_file(tier: "documents", path: …) — never a repo's docs/ folder (that's the project's own documentation) and never a case-variant like Documents/.
  6. Read the project charter (read_charter) at session start when this project has one (.memory/charter.md) — its commandments are absolute and OUTRANK memory notes, this file, and your brief; "No charter" is a normal answer. It's human-only: propose changes as a task tagged charter, never edit it. File memory notes under one of six folders (architecture/conventions/decisions/operations/project/roadmap), never the root. When a note is grounded in code, pass source_paths (the repo files it depends on) so Memory Health can drift-check it — an unanchored code note can't be kept current.
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. yesterday Changed · +1 lines · +110 tokens per session 114c953b80ba
  2. 6d ago First seen · 11 lines · 461 tokens per session scan A 74d7c8e86f71

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scarf GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository awizemann/scarf (844 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 571 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to scarf copilot-instructions.md, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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