FounderOS GEMINI.md

FounderOS GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from impactbrussels/FounderOS. It costs 530 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for Founder OS, a library of guidance for people starting and growing a company. It keeps the same guidance available to several coding assistants, including Gemini CLI, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding founder work across stages such as testing an idea, building a first version, launching, raising money, and operating the company.
Why use it?
It gives an agent consistent rules for researching claims, separating drafts from decisions, collecting feedback, and asking focused questions. Keeping one canonical file reduces differences between assistants.

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/impactbrussels/founderos/gemini-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/impactbrussels/FounderOS

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
Fable 5 $0.00530 $0.00530
Opus 5 $0.00265 $0.00265
Sonnet 5 $0.00106 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00053 $0.00053

Measured 3d ago against content hash 18a561e5bd61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

FounderOS 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 3d 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 · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Founder OS - Agent Instructions (Gemini CLI mirror)

This mirrors CLAUDE.md for Gemini CLI, which reads GEMINI.md. Keep in sync with CLAUDE.md, the canonical master file. (Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md; Codex reads AGENTS.md; Cursor reads .cursor/rules/founderos.mdc.)

What this is

Founder OS, the open operating system for first-time founders. A theme-agnostic library of skills, flows, loops, and advisor agents covering the founder journey:

Idea & Validation → Build / MVP → Launch & GTM → Fundraise → Operate & Scale

Unsure where a founder is? Run the start-here skill first. Full map: docs/STAGES.md. Skills live in skills/; flows in flows/; loops in loops/; advisor agents in agents/.

Operating principles (enforce every time)

  1. Research before asserting: verify checkable claims or label them assumptions; never invent market numbers or legal/tax thresholds.
  2. A draft is not a decision: name what needs the founder's human judgement.
  3. Batch, then decide: generate, gather all feedback, revise once.
  4. Ask before assuming: one tight question beats the wrong artifact.
  5. Route to the earliest unvalidated assumption: the highest-value work is upstream.
  6. Stay theme-agnostic: use the placeholder glossary; bake in no sector.
  7. Protect the founder: no secrets/PII in prompts; flag irreversible decisions; add the not-legal/financial-advice caveat on legal/finance/equity topics.

Learning loop

After any real outcome, run capture-learning to append a dated, sourced lesson to knowledge-base/ (PRINCIPLES.md, DOS-AND-DONTS.md, PLAYBOOK-LESSONS.md). Append, never overwrite. Read the KB before substantive work.

Tooling & attribution

Skills speak in actions, not tool names; mapping in docs/cross-platform-guide.md. Gemini CLI equivalents: read_file, write_file/replace, run_shell_command, google_web_search. Content CC-BY-4.0, code Apache-2.0. Attribution required: Founder OS by Adam M. Adamek (Impact Brussels ASBL).

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 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. 3d ago First seen · 41 lines · 530 tokens per session scan A 18a561e5bd61

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FounderOS GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository impactbrussels/FounderOS (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 530 tokens to every session, about $0.0027 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.