oh-my-symphony: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

oh-my-symphony GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from cskwork/oh-my-symphony. It costs 829 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for using Gemini CLI with Symphony, a system that sends coding agents to tasks on a Kanban board. It explains how Symphony’s operator skill is discovered and activated.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when operating Symphony through Gemini CLI, especially to dispatch Codex, Claude Code, Gemini, or other supported agents against board tasks.
Why use it?
It helps agents follow the project’s intended entry point and use the correct skill when coordinating work across coding agents.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

Written for Gemini CLI: the file is GEMINI.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

This is cskwork/oh-my-symphony's own configuration. It tells Gemini CLI how to work on oh-my-symphony 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 oh-my-symphony configures →

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to cskwork/oh-my-symphony. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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oh-my-symphony 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 6d ago.

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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 · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GEMINI.md: Gemini CLI entry point

This repo is Symphony, a polling orchestrator that dispatches coding agents (Codex / Claude Code / Gemini / AGY / Kiro / OpenCode / Pi) at a Kanban board. This file is the discovery point Gemini CLI reads on startup. It gives the operator, meaning the human or agent running symphony, the same skill guidance Claude Code gets from .claude/skills/.

Skill activation

Gemini activates Symphony through one operator skill after reading its metadata: read the description, then load skills/symphony-skill/SKILL.md (via Read or read_file) and follow its route table.

Source of truth lives in skills/symphony-skill/. .claude/skills/ is a thin symlink layer for Claude Code's native discovery only. Do not edit through it. skills/symphony-skill/oneshot/ and skills/symphony-skill/monorepo/ are branch-specific subfolders for templates/scripts/references used by the router, not separate activation routes.

Available skill (operator-facing)

symphony-skill

Use when the user wants to dispatch coding agents (Codex / Claude Code / Gemini / AGY / Kiro / OpenCode / Pi) against a Kanban board via this oh-my-symphony repo — adding/listing/transitioning tickets, launching the TUI, inspecting orchestrator state, customizing the workflow (lanes, per-state prompts), delegating sub-tasks to free up context, one-shotting a prompt into an evidence-gated board, bootstrapping a monorepo workflow, or diagnosing dispatch failures. Triggers on phrases like "add a symphony task", "run symphony", "dispatch this ticket", "symphony board", "WORKFLOW.md", "symphony tui won't start", "ticket failed with worker_exit", "customize kanban states", "deploy pipeline workflow", "delegate to symphony", "agent.kind: pi", "agent silent for N seconds", "one-shot this", "decompose and dispatch with proof", or "symphony monorepo".

Entry: skills/symphony-skill/SKILL.md

Worker-side guidance

Dispatched Gemini workers (running inside a per-ticket workspace) do not consume these operator skills. Worker behavior comes from WORKFLOW.md's prompts.base + prompts.stages map, which renders stage prompts from docs/symphony-prompts/<flavor>/. That prompt layer is already cross-platform. Codex, Claude, Gemini, and Pi workers all receive the same rendered prompt for a given ticket state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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oh-my-symphony GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cskwork/oh-my-symphony (25 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 829 tokens to every session, about $0.0041 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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