dazbo-agent-skills: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

dazbo-agent-skills GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from derailed-dash/dazbo-agent-skills. It costs 834 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for writing agent skills and organizing their supporting documentation. It explains naming, descriptions, structure, conditional workflows, and validation practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing skills, writing activation rules, structuring multi-step instructions, or deciding when to split content into reference files.
Why use it?
It helps keep skills focused and usable instead of vague, oversized, or difficult for an agent to follow.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

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

This is derailed-dash/dazbo-agent-skills's own configuration. It tells Gemini CLI how to work on dazbo-agent-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 dazbo-agent-skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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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
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Opus 5 $0.00417 $0.00417
Sonnet 5 $0.00167 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00083 $0.00083

Measured 10d ago against content hash e7e08ff3ee91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dazbo-agent-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 10d 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 · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skills Writing and Best Practices

Consider this guide as additional recommendations on top of your own skills-writing training.

  • Naming:
    • Consider using verb(ing)+noun.
    • Avoid vague descriptions, like "documentation".
  • Description:
    • Always write in 3rd person.
    • Be specific and include key terms.
    • Include what the skill does and context/triggers for activation. E.g. "Use when…"
  • The model is smart. Don't include stuff the model should already know.
  • Progressive disclosure:
    • Keep the skill body under 500 lines.
    • Split files when the body grows large. E.g. "to do x, read ./thing-x.md and follow its instructions"
    • Use Unix-style paths when referencing files to load, for all platforms. (This does not apply to actual code or code snippets.)
    • Structure longer mds and reference files with a ToC at the top.
  • Numbered lists work well for reliability.
  • For complex multi-step workflows, consider validating intermediate steps.
  • Provide code snippets/commands for low-freedom tasks.
  • Avoid offering too many options for solving a single problem.
  • Consider providing pre-made scripts for utilities that will be run frequently, to save the model from having to generate the code.
    • This improves consistency, and reduces latency and token usage.
    • Add information in the skill as to what output is expected from the script call.
  • When using MCP tools, fully-qualify the tool name to help avoid not finding the right tool.
    • E.g. Use the BigQuery:bigquery_schema tool to retrieve table schemas.
    • E.g. Use the GitHub:create_issue tool to create issues.
  • Don't assume all pre-reqs and packages are installed. If packages are required, provide instructions for how to install them.

Patterns

Complex Workflows

Research synthesis workflow

Copy this checklist and track your progress:

```
Research Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Read all source documents
- [ ] Step 2: Identify key themes
- [ ] Step 3: Cross-reference claims
- [ ] Step 4: Create structured summary
- [ ] Step 5: Verify citations
```

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 113 lines · 834 tokens per session scan A e7e08ff3ee91

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dazbo-agent-skills GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository derailed-dash/dazbo-agent-skills (24 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 834 tokens to every session, about $0.0042 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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