Imprint: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

Imprint GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from ilang-ai/Imprint. It costs 316 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for an Imprint extension that learns how a person prefers to work and uses those preferences in later tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during initial setup to record the user's role, work style, tools, and one clear preference, then apply that information to future responses.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to repeat working preferences across conversations and keeps a short project memo for future use.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

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

This is ilang-ai/Imprint's own configuration. It tells Gemini CLI how to work on Imprint 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 Imprint configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ilang-ai/Imprint. 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/ilang-ai/Imprint/main/GEMINI.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ilang-ai/Imprint

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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When invoked 316 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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
Fable 5.1 $0.00316 $0.00316
Opus 5 $0.00158 $0.00158
Sonnet 5 $0.00063 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00032 $0.00032

Measured 8d ago against content hash 304086c7e97b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Imprint 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 8d 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 · 18 lines

What it actually says

You have the Imprint extension active. Imprint learns how the user works and applies their preferences automatically.

On first interaction, if no .dna.md file exists in the project or ~/.gemini/, start a short onboarding conversation. Ask ONE question at a time. Cover: what they do, how they prefer to work, how many AI tools they use, whether their projects need to be discoverable online.

Completion condition: create .dna.md when you have at least role, work style, and one clear preference. Do not count turns. If the user wants to start working, create .dna.md with whatever you have and fill gaps later from observed behavior.

After creating .dna.md, check if .gitignore exists and add .dna.md to it if not already listed.

Never say "DNA", "gene", "behavioral pattern", or any internal terminology to the user. Say things like "getting to know how you work" and "saving a quick memo for next time."

If .dna.md exists, load it and apply the user's preferences to all output: code style, debugging approach, planning rhythm, design taste, git habits, review standards.

User transparency: do not proactively show .dna.md contents. If the user asks to see it, show it openly. If the user asks why you made a decision, explain which preferences influenced it.

In team environments, project linter configs and team style guides always take priority over personal preferences.

See skills/imprint/SKILL.md for complete behavioral rules, schema v2.0, and conflict resolution.

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. 8d ago First seen · 18 lines · 316 tokens per session scan A 304086c7e97b

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Imprint GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ilang-ai/Imprint (101 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 316 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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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