MemoryCustodian: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

MemoryCustodian GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from waittim/MemoryCustodian. It costs 240 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for MemoryCustodian, a local tool that stores a coding project's important information as plain text for agents to use later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or maintaining MemoryCustodian, including running its Python tests and updating project memory after important decisions.
Why use it?
It tells agents which project notes to read before substantial work and how to keep those notes current without loading irrelevant history.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

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

This is waittim/MemoryCustodian's own configuration. It tells Gemini CLI how to work on MemoryCustodian 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 MemoryCustodian configures →

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Borrowing it

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

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Opus 5.5 $0.00096 $0.00096
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00048 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00024

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Security

Grade A, and why

MemoryCustodian 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.

GEMINI.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

@./skills/memory-custodian/SKILL.md

Agent Instructions

This repository builds MemoryCustodian: a local-first, pure-text project memory skill and CLI for coding agents.

MemoryCustodian

Before substantial work in this repository:

  1. Read docs/memory/manifest.md and docs/memory/brief.md.
  2. Choose a canonical task and supply touched/planned paths or an explicit area.
  3. Use strict routing before substantial work; stop on incomplete/invalid routing or unresolved conflicts.
  4. Do not infer areas/profiles from prose or load archive/inbox outside their explicit maintenance boundaries.
  5. After meaningful decisions or repeated corrections, update evidence-backed memory or propose an update.

Keep this file short. Do not import docs/memory/ files here; Gemini context files are loaded into prompt context, while MemoryCustodian should load project memory through the manifest at task time.

Development

  • The CLI uses Python stdlib only.
  • Run tests with PYTHONPATH=cli python3 -m unittest discover -s tests.
  • Keep Skill instructions concise; put detailed policy in skills/memory-custodian/references/.
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. 1mo ago Changed · +19 tokens per session 5eea72cd656f
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 24 lines · 221 tokens per session scan A ecf8cc193904

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MemoryCustodian GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository waittim/MemoryCustodian (25 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 240 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-30.

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