midas-harness: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

midas-harness GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from okuzpe/midas-harness. It costs 2,461 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project instruction file for Midas, a tool that generates conventions for the Gemini command-line coding agent. It explains which project rules take priority, where rules and settings live, and how generated files are maintained.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent needs to understand Midas conventions, project overrides, rule precedence, file ownership, or the process for regenerating adapters.
Why use it?
It helps agents resolve conflicting instructions consistently and prevents people from editing generated project guidance in the wrong place.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

Written for Gemini CLI: the file is GEMINI.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is okuzpe/midas-harness's own configuration. It tells Gemini CLI how to work on midas-harness 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 midas-harness configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to okuzpe/midas-harness. 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/okuzpe/midas-harness/main/GEMINI.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/okuzpe/midas-harness

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.02461 $0.02461
Opus 5 $0.01230 $0.01230
Sonnet 5 $0.00492 $0.00492
Haiku 4.5 $0.00246 $0.00246

Measured 6d ago against content hash 958833bd7f52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

midas-harness 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 6d 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 · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project memory — Midas (Gemini CLI)

Generated by Midas from harness/conventions.md. Do not hand-edit — run /midas-doctor (or node scripts/render-adapters.mjs) to re-render.

Midas base conventions (always-on)

This file is the base body of project law. Its contents are inlined into generated tool adapters and summarized in AGENTS.md. In installed projects it is vendor-owned and immutable: project overrides belong in {product}/conventions.md or <paths.rules>/. Engine contributors edit this source and run /midas-doctor; installed projects run /midas-doctor after changing their overlays.

Precedence (when rules conflict, higher wins)

project rule overlay (<paths.rules>/)  >  stack-specific rules  >  {product}/conventions.md  >  {product}/design-system.md  >  these base conventions

An overlay at <paths.rules>/<slug>.md wins over a base or stack rule with the same slug. Stack-specific rules are generated during Phase 5 by /define-conventions (docs-verified for the chosen framework). {product}/conventions.md and {product}/design-system.md are project overrides the team owns. This base file is the floor every project starts from. There is exactly one taxonomy — do not introduce a parallel "standards" layer.

Path resolution

Read layout and paths from paths.state. Pipeline and skills use tokens — substitute before I/O:

  • {runs}/paths.runs (.harness/runs/)
  • {product}/paths.product (.harness/product/)

Engine source: paths.engine (.harness/engine/). Project rule overlays: paths.rules (.harness/rules/); an overlay wins over a base rule with the same slug.

Code quality

  • Match the surrounding code: naming, structure, comment density, idioms. New code should be indistinguishable from existing code.
  • Prefer reuse over new abstractions. Search for an existing utility before writing one.
  • Functions do one thing; keep them small and named for their effect.
  • No dead code, no commented-out blocks, no TODO without an owner/condition.
  • Lean ladder before expanding code — need? → reuse → stdlib → native → installed dep → one line → only then the minimum that works. Never cut trust-boundary validation, security, or accessibility. Full rule: rules/lean-ladder.md; delete-list review: /midas-lean-review.

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. 6d ago First seen · 164 lines · 2,461 tokens per session scan A 958833bd7f52

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midas-harness GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository okuzpe/midas-harness (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,461 tokens to every session, about $0.0123 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.

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