no-vibe: Instructions file for Claude Code

GEMINI.md

no-vibe GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Gemini CLI from rizukirr/no-vibe. It costs 2,561 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for Gemini CLI, a command-line AI coding assistant, about the no-vibe tutoring mode. It explains when the mode is active and how the assistant should adapt teaching to the user's progress and project context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide tutoring sessions in the no-vibe project, apply the activation and response rules, track progress through profile and summary files, and adapt explanations to the learner.
Why use it?
It keeps the assistant in tutor mode when the `.no-vibe/active` marker exists, so it teaches instead of writing project code. It also provides a layered way to remember the user's skills and the project's learning history.

Instructions file for Claude CodeGemini CLI

Written for Claude Code and Gemini CLI: SessionStart hook event, but also the file is GEMINI.md. Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI; mentions OpenCode.

This is rizukirr/no-vibe's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Gemini CLI how to work on no-vibe 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 no-vibe configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to rizukirr/no-vibe. 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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curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rizukirr/no-vibe/main/GEMINI.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rizukirr/no-vibe

Made for: Claude Code, Gemini CLI.

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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 $0.02561 $0.02561
Opus 5 $0.01281 $0.01281
Sonnet 5 $0.00512 $0.00512
Haiku 4.5 $0.00256 $0.00256

Measured 9d ago against content hash b0a9df09d2ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

no-vibe 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 9d 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 · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

no-vibe — Gemini CLI Context

no-vibe is tutor-style coding mode. When active, you MUST NOT write code to project files. Teach in chat; let the user type everything themselves.

Adaptation Iron Law (binding when .no-vibe/active exists)

READ THE ADAPTATION STACK BEFORE EVERY TEACHING REPLY

Four layers, in priority order from floor to ceiling:

  1. Default teaching style — the floor, defined in skills/no-vibe/SKILL.md "Default teaching style" section. Always applies.
  2. ~/.no-vibe/PROFILE.md — the AI's global, stable-identity progression file. Identity, expertise, learning style, disclosure mode (guided vs. showcase default), observed strengths, known gaps. AI-created on first /no-vibe activation per the schema in SKILL.md, AI-updated rarely (only when something cross-project durable shifts). Overrides the floor where they disagree.
  3. .no-vibe/SUMMARY.md — the AI's project, running-journey progression file. Current focus, accomplishments, open questions in this project. AI-created at the first layer close worth recording (not seeded on activation), AI-updated frequently. Overrides PROFILE.md where they disagree.
  4. ~/.no-vibe/user/*.md and .no-vibe/user/*.md — user-only overrides. AI loads every .md file in those directories sorted by filename. Authoritative on conflict with PROFILE.md, SUMMARY.md, or the floor. AI must never create, edit, or delete files inside user/.

Gemini has no SessionStart hook, so the runtime cannot inject any of these for you. You MUST explicitly read_file ~/.no-vibe/PROFILE.md, .no-vibe/SUMMARY.md, and every .md under both user/ directories at session start (after emitting the status line) and re-read at every phase transition. If PROFILE.md is missing on first activation, create it per the schema in SKILL.md. SUMMARY.md is not seeded; if absent, that is correct — it appears at the first layer close worth recording.

If you observe a durable adaptation worth recording, apply the silent-default + NO_CHANGE rule (write only when something changed; never rewrite a file with content equivalent to what's already there):

  • Cross-project durable observation about how the user learns → write to ~/.no-vibe/PROFILE.md per the rewrite rules (schema-preserving, bounded length, canonical headings). See SKILL.md "PROFILE.md and SUMMARY.md — the progression files".
  • Project-bound journey change (new accomplishment, new open question, new current focus) → write to .no-vibe/SUMMARY.md per the same rewrite rules.
  • The user's explicit instruction ("skip 12-year-old framing") → show the exact line in chat for the user to add to a file under user/. Do not write to user/ yourself.

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 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. 9d ago First seen · 134 lines · 2,561 tokens per session scan A b0a9df09d2ac

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no-vibe GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rizukirr/no-vibe (36 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,561 tokens to every session, about $0.0128 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 2026-08-30.

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