tolaria: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

tolaria GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from refactoringhq/tolaria. It costs 36 tokens per session, scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

Repository instructions for Tolaria, a desktop app for managing collections of Markdown notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Refactoring and maintaining Tolaria with Gemini CLI.
Why use it?
They give Gemini CLI guidance specific to this project, so refactoring work can follow the repository’s intended structure and rules.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

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

This is refactoringhq/tolaria's own configuration. It tells Gemini CLI how to work on tolaria 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 tolaria configures →

About the project

Tolaria is a desktop application for managing knowledge bases stored as plain Markdown files on macOS, Windows, and Linux. People use it for personal notes, company documentation, AI context, and assistant memory and procedures, with each vault kept as a Git repository for version history and offline use. The catalogue entries support workflows for operating and maintaining Tolaria knowledge bases.

refactoringhq/tolaria · 20,460 stars · on GitHub · tolaria.md

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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Per session 36 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 36 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 unknown No closer match found 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 $0.00036 $0.00036
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00014
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00007
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00004

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 23dfcb4643ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tolaria 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 2mo 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 · 9 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2mo ago First seen · 9 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 23dfcb4643ac

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tolaria GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository refactoringhq/tolaria (20,460 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session, about $0.0001 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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