totem: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

totem GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from mmnto-ai/totem. It costs 138 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of totem CLAUDE.md, Apache-2.0.

A Gemini CLI instruction that directs the coding agent to read the repository's AGENTS.md file before doing anything else. AGENTS.md is the project's central set of instructions for AI coding tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as the handoff file for Gemini CLI in the Totem repository, pointing the agent to AGENTS.md.
Why use it?
It keeps Gemini CLI aligned with the same repository rules used by other coding agents instead of maintaining a separate instruction file.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

Written for Gemini CLI: the file is GEMINI.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Gemini CLI.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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Per session 138 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 138 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00138 $0.00138
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.00069
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00014

Measured 8d ago against content hash d721d9ea413e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

totem 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to totem CLAUDE.md — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

GEMINI.md · 8 lines

What it actually says

Totem: Gemini CLI Entry Point

The canonical agent instructions for this repository live in AGENTS.md.

Per Totem ADR-038 "AGENTS.md Standard Adoption", mmnto-ai/totem uses a single AGENTS.md as the source of truth for how all AI coding agents (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, etc.) should behave here. This file exists only so Gemini CLI finds its way to AGENTS.md.

Read AGENTS.md before doing anything else.

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 · 8 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A d721d9ea413e

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totem GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mmnto-ai/totem (17 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 138 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to totem CLAUDE.md, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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