handelsregister-cli GEMINI.md

Instructions for using a command-line tool that downloads official German commercial-register documents from handelsregister.de. It explains how to install the tool, search for a company, fetch selected records, and review the download manifest.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for German companies, download records such as shareholder lists and register extracts, and report which files were retrieved.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to retrieve registry records while avoiding wrong-company matches and excessive requests to the rate-limited website. It also makes the downloaded document set easier to summarise.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/despotb/handelsregister-cli/gemini-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DespotB/handelsregister-cli

Made for: Gemini CLI.

Per session 390 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 390 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00390 $0.00390
Opus 5 $0.00195 $0.00195
Sonnet 5 $0.00078 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00039 $0.00039

Measured yesterday against content hash b73e9e95e283, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

handelsregister-cli 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 yesterday.

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 · 28 lines

What it actually says

Handelsregister document fetch (Gemini CLI extension)

This extension wraps the hreg CLI from this repository to fetch official registry documents for German companies from handelsregister.de.

Rules

  1. Ensure the CLI is available: run hreg --version. If missing, install with the first available tool — uv tool install, pipx install, or pip install --user — each with git+https://github.com/DespotB/handelsregister-cli. If hreg is still not found, the install bin dir is likely not on PATH: try ~/.local/bin/hreg. If all fail, tell the user and stop.
  2. Always search before fetching: hreg search "<keywords>" --json. If several plausible companies match, ask which one is meant unless the user already provided a register number.
  3. Fetch with hreg fetch "<keywords>" --register "<HRB/HRA number>" -o "<outdir>" --json. Honour a narrower request via --docs AD,CD,SI,DK. Never lower --delay below 3 and never loop over company lists: the portal rate-limits at roughly 60 requests/hour. A full fetch takes a few minutes by design.
  4. Afterwards read manifest.json in the output directory and summarise what was downloaded (highlight Gesellschafterlisten and Gesellschaftsverträge with dates), what was skipped, and where the files are.
  5. Registry documents contain personal data (names, birth dates, addresses). Do not send their contents to external services unprompted.
  6. On parsing errors the portal layout may have changed: point the user to https://github.com/DespotB/handelsregister-cli/issues instead of retrying.
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. yesterday First seen · 28 lines · 390 tokens per session scan A b73e9e95e283

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handelsregister-cli GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository DespotB/handelsregister-cli (1 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 390 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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 2026-08-31.

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