What is rickbot-adk GEMINI.md?

Project instructions for Rickbot-ADK, an application with several chatbot personalities, built with Google's Agent Development Kit. They describe setup, project details, and how to run it.

They are for configuring the environment, understanding the project's structure and dependencies, and building or running the application.

They help the coding agent use the correct Google Cloud project and avoid setup-related test and development failures.

How derailed-dash/rickbot-adk configures Gemini CLI

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Clone the repo

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Made for: Gemini CLI.

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When invoked 1,452 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01452	$0.01452
Opus 5.5	$0.00581	$0.00581
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00290	$0.00290
Haiku 4.5	$0.00145	$0.00145

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Grade A, and why

rickbot-adk 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.

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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 · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project: Rickbot-ADK

IMPORTANT: Run this check at the start of EVERY session!

Google Cloud configuration is achieved through a combination of .env and the scripts/setup-env.sh script. Note that .env is encrypted in the repo using git-encrypt.

Before providing your FIRST response in any conversation, you MUST perform the following steps:

Run printenv GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT to check the environment variable.
Based only on the output of that command, state whether the variable is set.
If it is not set, run scripts/setup-env.sh before resuming the conversation.
Note that the GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT must be set to a value that includes "rickbot". E.g. "rickbot-adk-dev". If it is not, then you are using an incorrect project and will likely encounter errors.

The presence of this environment variable indicates that the script has been run. The absence of this variable indicates that the script has NOT been run.

Note that failures with Google Cloud are likely if this script has not been run. For example, tests will fail. If tests are failing, we should check if the script has been run.

Project Overview

This project is "Rickbot-ADK" a multi-personality chatbot built using Google Gemini and the Agent Development Kit (ADK). It is an evolution of the original Rickbot, aiming to leverage the ADK for more advanced capabilities. The chatbot can adopt various personalities, such as Rick Sanchez, Yoda, and others.

Project Plan

The TODO.md captures the overall plan for this project.

Building and Running

Dependencies

uv: Python package manager
Google Cloud SDK: For interacting with GCP services
Terraform: For infrastructure as code
make: For running common development tasks

Project dependencies are managed in pyproject.toml and can be installed using uv. The make commands streamline many uv and adk commands.

Deployment

The application is designed for deployment to Google Cloud's Vertex AI Agent Engine. The deployment process is managed via Terraform and Google Cloud Build.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Changes

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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.

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rickbot-adk GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository derailed-dash/rickbot-adk (20 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,452 tokens to every session, about $0.0058 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 2026-08-30.

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