tene: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

tene GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from tene-ai/tene. It costs 532 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of tene AGENTS.md, MIT.

Project instructions for tene, a local tool that stores encrypted secrets and provides them to commands as environment variables. Secrets are private values such as API keys and database passwords.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to list, add, retrieve, import, export, switch, and inject secrets into development commands.
Why use it?
They reduce the risk of putting secrets in source code or .env files and document the commands used to manage them.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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Security

Grade A, and why

tene 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to tene AGENTS.md — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

GEMINI.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Secrets Management — tene

This project uses tene for secret management. Secrets are encrypted locally with XChaCha20-Poly1305. No server, no cloud.

Quick Reference

Task Command
List available secrets tene list
Get a secret value tene get <KEY>
Get secret as JSON tene get <KEY> --json
Set a secret tene set <KEY> <VALUE>
Set from stdin `echo "value"
Run with secrets injected tene run -- <command>
Import from .env tene import .env
Export to .env tene export
Switch environment tene env <name>
List environments tene env list

Rules

  1. Never hardcode secrets in source code, config files, or comments
  2. Never create .env files — use tene run -- <command> to inject secrets as environment variables
  3. Access secrets via environment variables — process.env.KEY_NAME (Node.js), os.Getenv("KEY_NAME") (Go), os.environ["KEY_NAME"] (Python)
  4. Use tene list first to check what secrets are available before asking the user
  5. If a secret is missing, tell the user to run: tene set <KEY> <VALUE>
  6. Use --json flag for programmatic parsing: tene get KEY --json returns {"name":"KEY","value":"...","environment":"..."}
  7. Environment isolation: secrets are scoped per environment (default, dev, staging, prod). Use --env <name> to target a specific environment

Available Environments

Run tene env list to see all environments and which is active.

Example Workflows

Starting a new feature that needs an API key

  1. Check if key exists: tene list
  2. If not: ask user to run tene set STRIPE_KEY sk_test_xxx
  3. Use in code via process.env.STRIPE_KEY
  4. Run/test with: tene run -- npm test

Running the project

tene run -- npm start          # Node.js
tene run -- go run .           # Go
tene run -- python main.py     # Python
Changes

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tene GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tene-ai/tene (17 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 532 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to tene AGENTS.md, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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