What is gim AGENTS.md?

Repository instructions for the GIM, or Goal-in-Mind, framework, a command-line system for managing goals, tasks, project context, and checks. They describe its project structure, stored data, and the checks used to detect unclear or misaligned work.

Use them when working on GIM itself or when using its commands to define goals, validate plans, manage tasks, inspect context, and resolve issues.

They explain how the framework stores project intent and flags drift, unnecessary work, ambiguity, or a mismatch with the requested goal.

How RomyHaik/gim configures Claude Code and Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to RomyHaik/gim. 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/RomyHaik/gim/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RomyHaik/gim

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 1,766 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,766 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 original 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01766	$0.01766
Opus 5.5	$0.00706	$0.00706
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00353	$0.00353
Haiku 4.5	$0.00177	$0.00177

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5ab859040b67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gim AGENTS.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.

AGENTS.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GIM Framework — Agent Instructions

This repository contains the GIM (Goal-in-Mind) Framework.

Project structure

src/core/ — Core engine, markdown I/O, parser, types, utils, passive evaluator, budget estimator
src/commands/ — CLI commands: init, goal, check, focus, mode, prompt, validate, brainstorm, scope, resolve, task, context, graph, install, export
src/cli/ — CLI entry point (commander-based)
hook-templates/ — zero-dep Node hook scripts copied into a project by gim install claude-code (PreToolUse sync between Claude Code and GIM)
schemas/gim/ — GIM schema definition (YAML) and templates
bin/gim.js — CLI binary entry point
dist/ — built output, committed and shipped (see "Distribution" below)

Key abstractions

GIM (gim-engine.ts) — Main engine. Orchestrates checks, manages state, learning loop, task management.
PassiveEvaluator (passive-evaluator.ts) — The single unified evaluator behind gim check and task auto-check. Runs four checks (alignment, necessity, clarity, intent) in precedence order and dispatches to four issue types (drift, overbuild, ambiguity, intent-mismatch). Boundary matches and learned rules short-circuit the loop. Replaced the earlier ScopeGuard + IntentAnalyzer split in v0.4.
BudgetEstimator (budget-estimator.ts) — Computes a soft per-task token budget at task-creation time from goal-relevance × mode × confidence × complexity. Produces a rationale string explaining which signals pushed the estimate which way. Overridable via gim task add --budget N.
GoalTracker (goal-tracker.ts) — Relevance scoring with concept expansion. Used by the evaluator and estimator.
ModeManager (mode-manager.ts) — Operational modes and mode change suggestions.
Markdown I/O (markdown-io.ts) — Reads/writes the .gim/ vault. Each GIM artifact is a markdown file with YAML frontmatter and wiki-link edges. Handles backward-compatible migration of legacy check-type names on read.
Markdown Parser (markdown-parser.ts) — Frontmatter parsing, serialization, wiki-link extraction.
Validator (validator.ts) — Rates idea alignment 1-5, boundary-aware. (Used by gim validate.)
Brainstormer (brainstormer.ts) — Finds connections between ideas and the goal. (Used by gim brainstorm.)
PromptGenerator (prompt-generator.ts) — System prompts with reason layers + non-goals/out-of-scope for AI tools (used by gim prompt).

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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.

2mo ago First seen · 81 lines · 1,766 tokens per session scan A 5ab859040b67

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gim AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository RomyHaik/gim (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,766 tokens to every session, about $0.0071 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 2026-08-31.

Project management

gim AGENTS.md next to 6 instructions from other repositories
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gim AGENTS.mdRomyHaik/gim	Instructions file	5	6mo ago	MIT	A	1,766	Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode
vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	9,719	GitHub Copilot
next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js	Instructions file	143k	yesterday	MIT	A	7,461	Codex, OpenCode
langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain	Instructions file	149k	yesterday	MIT	A	4,680	Codex, OpenCode
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	5,516	GitHub Copilot
vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	3,093	GitHub Copilot
deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness	Instructions file	274k	2d ago	MIT	A	4,313	Codex, OpenCode

gim: Instructions file for Claude Code