reolink-cli: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

reolink-cli GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from reolink/reolink-cli. It costs 1,807 tokens per session, scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for operating Reolink network cameras through a local command-line tool. The tool usually needs a local gateway running and returns results as JSON, a machine-readable format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install or update the camera command-line tool, start its gateway, register cameras, and manage registered devices.
Why use it?
It provides a defined setup and operating procedure for camera commands, including installation checks and gateway requirements. This reduces mistakes when managing cameras on a local network.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

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

This is reolink/reolink-cli's own configuration. It tells Gemini CLI how to work on reolink-cli 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 reolink-cli configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to reolink/reolink-cli. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Made for: Gemini CLI.

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Grade C, and why

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GEMINI.md · 107 lines

How it starts

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You have access to reolink-cli for operating Reolink cameras locally. The binary must be installed and the gateway must be running for most commands.

Setup

The user installs reolink-cli and reolink-gateway once:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reolink/reolink-cli/main/install.sh | sh

Both binaries land under ~/.local/bin/. To upgrade later: reolink-cli self-update (macOS/Linux), or re-run the installer.

The installer picks the right archive per platform, including the statically linked musl build on Alpine and Home Assistant OS, and verifies the download against a checksum committed to the repository. If it refuses with a checksum mismatch, retry once and then report it — do not point REOLINK_REPO elsewhere or fetch the archive by hand to get past it. There is no flag to skip verification.

# Start the gateway (required for most commands)
reolink-cli gateway start --addr 127.0.0.1:9000 &

# Register a camera
reolink-cli device add front-door --host 192.168.x.x --user admin

Primary Surface

reolink-cli (JSON stdout). Works without the gateway: device add|list|update|remove|resolve|show, config init, discover, features, doctor, cache status|clean. Everything that touches a camera needs the gateway running.

Envelopes:

  • CLI: {ok:true, command, protocol, data} / {ok:false, error:{code, message, retryable}}
  • Gateway POST /api: {status:"success", data} / {status:"error", code, message}

Battery doorbell external power: config get power-mode reads supply status; config set power-mode --value '{"mode":"adapter","dryRun":1}' checks prerequisites without switching. Omit dryRun or set it to 0 to switch (mode is battery/adapter; requires batteryMode bit8). An actual switch includes status readback: only powerSupplyStatus=normal confirms adapter mode; ACK or adapterStatus alone does not. Errors 426/427/428 mean insufficient external power / wired power disconnected / empty battery. See skills/reolink-cli/references/setup.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Changes

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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. 15d ago Changed · +7 lines · +234 tokens per session 880130ae1167
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 100 lines · 1,573 tokens per session scan C b945a2498595

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reolink-cli GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository reolink/reolink-cli (117 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,807 tokens to every session, about $0.0072 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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