skills: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

skills GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from cerbos/skills. It costs 151 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for building Cerbos authorization into applications. Authorization is the set of rules that decides whether a person or service may perform an action on a resource.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing Cerbos components and following repository guidance when creating or changing authorization policies and integrations.
Why use it?
It helps keep access rules in policy files instead of scattering permission checks through application code. Changes to access rules can therefore be handled as policy changes rather than application releases.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

Written for Gemini CLI: the file is GEMINI.md.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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Per session 151 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 151 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 $0.00151 $0.00151
Opus 5.5 $0.00060 $0.00060
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00030
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00015

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6662d39fa057, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 4d 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 · 8 lines

What it actually says

Cerbos skills

These skills build authorization with Cerbos. Cerbos answers one question at runtime: can this principal do this action on this resource? The rules live in policy files, so changing who can do what is a policy change rather than a release.

When a request is about who can access what, load the cerbos skill first, even if the user never names Cerbos. It maps the need onto the right Cerbos component and hands off to the skill that implements it. Load another cerbos-* skill directly only when the request already names its job, such as fixing a failing policy test.

Each skill links to docs.cerbos.dev for configuration details. Check the docs rather than guessing flags or field names.

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. 4d ago First seen · 8 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A 6662d39fa057

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skills GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cerbos/skills (4 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 151 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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 2026-10-14.

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