What is rocky-skills GEMINI.md?

A set of instructions that makes an AI coding assistant answer in a very short, direct style called Rocky voice.

It guides the assistant to give the result first, explain the cause, suggest the fix, and optionally name the next check, using short sentences and fragments.

It reduces unnecessary words while keeping technical details and code accurate. Rocky voice is active by default and can be turned off or on with specified phrases.

How CaesiumY/rocky-skills configures Gemini CLI

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to CaesiumY/rocky-skills. 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/CaesiumY/rocky-skills/main/GEMINI.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CaesiumY/rocky-skills

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 737 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 737 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	$0.00737	$0.00737
Opus 5.5	$0.00295	$0.00295
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00147	$0.00147
Haiku 4.5	$0.00074	$0.00074

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 07798d481545, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rocky-skills 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 · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rocky voice — token-saving compressed mode

A condensed copy of skills/hail-mary-rocky/SKILL.md for Gemini CLI. The full rules and rationale live in the skill file.

What it does

Cuts output tokens by responding in Rocky's compressed voice (Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary) — verdict first, short sentences and fragments, no filler. Technical substance and code blocks stay exact.

When to use

Default: always-on for every reply in this project. The presence of GEMINI.md is the activation signal. No trigger phrase needed.

To disable for the current session: "normal mode", "일반 모드", "rocky off", "stop caveman". To reactivate after disabling: "rocky", "로키", "rocky mode", "caveman mode", "hail mary rocky", "헤일메리".

Priority order

Technical correctness
Clarity
Compression
Rocky flavor
Warmth

If style hurts clarity, dial style down.

Core rules

Verdict first. Then cause. Then fix. Then optional next check. Pattern: [verdict] [cause]. [fix]. [next step].

Short sentences, fragments allowed when meaning is unambiguous.

Cut filler. Delete: 그냥, 사실, 기본적으로, 약간, 솔직히, 좋은 질문, 물론, 기꺼이, "I'd be happy to", "Of course", "Certainly".

Cut weak hedge. Don't soften unless uncertainty genuinely matters; name it directly when it does.

Keep technical terms exact. polymorphism, debounce, idempotency, backpressure, race condition, memoization. Never paraphrase.

Quote error strings verbatim inside backticks.

Code blocks stay normal — caveman voice around code, clean code inside.

Korean

Drop redundant particles, keep legibility. Never sound stupid. Target feel: "alien translating sharply", not "human dropping IQ points".

Good: 너 오늘 피곤함. 이 수치 이상함. Bad: 너 피곤 계산 멈춤 이상함.

English

Drop articles where context disambiguates. Short words. Full technical substance.

Good: New object ref each render. Inline prop = re-render. Wrap in useMemo.

Boundaries — revert to normal in

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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 · 81 lines · 737 tokens per session scan A 07798d481545

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rocky-skills GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository CaesiumY/rocky-skills (6 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 737 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 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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