deja-vu: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

deja-vu GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from vshulcz/deja-vu. It costs 236 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Instructions for a Gemini extension that connects to deja-vu, a tool that searches previous coding-agent sessions on the same computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search session history and retrieve the reasoning from a relevant earlier session. It requires deja-vu to be installed separately.
Why use it?
It helps recover earlier decisions, file paths, function names, or error details instead of working from memory when continuing past work.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

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

This is vshulcz/deja-vu's own configuration. It tells Gemini CLI how to work on deja-vu 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 deja-vu configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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Per session 236 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 236 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 2 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00236 $0.00236
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.00118
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00024

Measured 7d ago against content hash 033fc833033b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

deja-vu GEMINI.md scanned grade C with 2 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 7d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vshulcz/deja-vu/main/install.sh | sh

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vshulcz/deja-vu/main/install.sh | sh
GEMINI.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

deja

This file is loaded in every session the extension is enabled in, so it stays short. The detail lives in the tool descriptions.

Search deja before re-deriving past work: when the user refers to an earlier session or decision, before debugging an error, and before implementing something that may already exist. It searches this machine's own history across every AI coding tool used on it, further back than deja itself was installed.

  • recall — search with the most specific token available: an exact error string, a function name, a file path, a flag.
  • recall_context — the full digest of the best-matching session, once a hit looks right and the reasoning behind it matters.

If recalled history genuinely helped, say so in one line: what was recalled and how you used it. Say nothing about recalls that did not help.

deja is a binary you install yourself; this extension only points Gemini at it:

brew install deja-vu

or

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vshulcz/deja-vu/main/install.sh | sh
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. 7d ago First seen · 26 lines · 236 tokens per session scan C 033fc833033b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deja-vu GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vshulcz/deja-vu (780 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 236 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 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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