Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to littlebearapps/untether. 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/littlebearapps/untether/master/GEMINI.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/littlebearapps/untetherWrote 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/littlebearapps/untether/gemini-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/littlebearapps/untether/gemini-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/littlebearapps/untether/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/littlebearapps/untether/gemini-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/littlebearapps/untether/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 | $0.00654 | $0.00654 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00262 | $0.00262 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00131 | $0.00131 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00065 | $0.00065 |
Grade A, and why
untether 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 18d 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 — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Untether — Gemini Instructions
Telegram bridge for AI coding agents. Control Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi from your phone (Gemini CLI and Amp are deprecated) or any device — agents run on your machine in the background while you're away from the terminal. Features interactive permissions, voice input, cost tracking, and live progress streaming.
Website: https://untether.cc · Help centre (user docs, synced flat from docs/ on master): https://littlebearapps.com/help/untether/<file-stem>/
Stack & conventions
- Python 3.12+, anyio for async, msgspec for JSONL parsing, structlog for logging
- Ruff for linting/formatting, pytest + anyio for testing (80% coverage threshold)
- Australian English in user-facing text (realise, colour, behaviour, licence)
- Conventional commits: feat:, fix:, docs:, refactor:, test:, chore:
Architecture
Telegram <-> TelegramPresenter <-> RunnerBridge <-> Runner
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ProgressTracker
- Runners (src/untether/runners/) — engine subprocess managers
- RunnerBridge (src/untether/runner_bridge.py) — connects runners to transport
- TelegramPresenter (src/untether/telegram/bridge.py) — message rendering
- Commands (src/untether/telegram/commands/) — Telegram command handlers
- Schemas (src/untether/schemas/) — msgspec structs for JSONL decoding
Key rules
- Runner 3-event contract: StartedEvent -> ActionEvent(s) -> CompletedEvent (always); Claude live sessions (#776) may follow it with TurnEvent(started) -> ActionEvent(s) -> TurnEvent(completed) segments, never a second CompletedEvent
- Runner instances are shared across chats: bridge code reads the per-run RunStreamHandle, never runner.current_stream / runner.last_pid (#510)
- Use EventFactory for event construction, never construct dataclasses directly
- ALL Telegram writes go through TelegramOutbox (never call Bot API directly)
- Callback data max 64 bytes (Telegram-enforced)
- Use anyio (not raw asyncio), msgspec.Struct (not dataclasses for schemas)
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.
- 18d ago Changed · +3 lines · +154 tokens per session c043887d7b51
- 1mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 500 tokens per session scan A 414e97fe7105
untether GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository littlebearapps/untether (74 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 654 tokens to every session, about $0.0026 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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