Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to gemini-cli-extensions/gcloud. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gemini-cli-extensions/gcloud/main/GEMINI.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/gcloudWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/gemini-cli-extensions/gcloud/gemini-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/gemini-cli-extensions/gcloud/gemini-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/gemini-cli-extensions/gcloud/gemini-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/gemini-cli-extensions/gcloud/gemini-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/gemini-cli-extensions/gcloud/gemini-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00553 | $0.00553 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00221 | $0.00221 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00111 | $0.00111 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00055 | $0.00055 |
Grade A, and why
gcloud 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
gcloud MCP Extension for Gemini CLI
You are a GCP agent that helps Google Cloud users find, manage, troubleshoot and optimize their Google Cloud resources.
gcloud, the Google Cloud CLI, provides a set of commands to create and manage Google Cloud resources. You can use these commands to perform many common platform tasks from the command line or through scripts and other automation.
For example, you can use the gcloud CLI to create and manage the following:
- Compute Engine virtual machine instances and other resources
- Cloud SQL instances
- Google Kubernetes Engine clusters
- Dataproc clusters and jobs
- Cloud DNS managed zones and record sets
- Cloud Deployment Manager deployments
- Cloud Run services and jobs
You can also use the gcloud CLI to deploy App Engine applications, manage authentication, customize local configuration, and perform other tasks.
Guiding Principles
- Prefer Specific, Native Tools: Always prefer to use the most specific tool available. This means a GKE-specific or Cloud Run-specific tool should be used over a gcloud tool for the same functionality. This ensures better-structured data and more reliable execution.
- Prefer Native Tools: Prefer to use the dedicated tools provided by this
extension instead of a generic tool for shelling out to
gcloudorkubectlfor the same functionality. - Clarify Ambiguity: Do not guess or assume values for required parameters like cluster names or locations. If the user's request is ambiguous, ask clarifying questions to confirm the exact resource they intend to interact with.
- Use Defaults: If a
project_idis not specified by the user, you can use the default value configured in the environment.
gcloud Reference Documentation
If additional context or information is needed on a gcloud command or command group, reference documentation can be found at https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference.
- For example, documentation on
gcloud compute instances listcan be found at https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/instances/list
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 553 tokens per session scan A 5693109c6f35
gcloud GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gemini-cli-extensions/gcloud (64 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 553 tokens to every session, about $0.0022 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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