rugged-gemini: Skill for Gemini CLI

.gemini/skills/pathfinder/SKILL.md

pathfinder is a skill for Gemini CLI from irahardianto/rugged-gemini. It costs 43 tokens per session (3,165 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using Pathfinder, a code-navigation tool that maps source files and symbols so agents can explore a codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for exploring repositories, searching source semantically, analyzing change impact, auditing code, and investigating problems.
Why use it?
It provides repeatable steps for finding relevant code, tracing effects of changes, auditing, and debugging, including a fallback when the tool is unavailable.

Skill for Gemini CLI

Written for Gemini CLI: installed under .gemini/.

This is irahardianto/rugged-gemini's own configuration. It tells Gemini CLI how to work on rugged-gemini 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 rugged-gemini configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to irahardianto/rugged-gemini. 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/irahardianto/rugged-gemini/main/.gemini/skills/pathfinder/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/irahardianto/rugged-gemini

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,165 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00043 $0.03165
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01582
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00633
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00316

Measured 6d ago against content hash d31768acd9f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pathfinder 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 6d 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/skills/pathfinder/SKILL.md · 308 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 308 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pathfinder Skill

Session Bootstrap

Before any code exploration or analysis, confirm Pathfinder is available:

mcp({ server: "pathfinder" })
  • Tools listed → Pathfinder is live. Use semantic tools for all source code operations.
  • Error or empty → Pathfinder unavailable. Use built-in tools. Stop here.

Check once per session. Re-check only if a tool call fails with a connection error.

Semantic Paths

All Pathfinder tools that take a semantic_path require file_path::symbol_chain:

  • src/auth.ts::AuthService.login
  • crates/pathfinder/src/server.rs::PathfinderServer.new
  • AuthService.login (interpreted as a file named "AuthService.login")
  • login (interpreted as a file named "login")

Bare file paths (no ::) are valid only for whole-file operations like read_source_file.

Workflows

Explore (Understand a Codebase)

1. get_repo_map(path=".", depth=5, visibility="public")
   → Full project skeleton with semantic paths
   → Low coverage_percent? Increase max_tokens
   → Files show [TRUNCATED]? Increase max_tokens_per_file
   → Use changed_since="3h" to scope to recent changes
   → Use include_extensions=["ts","tsx"] for language focus
   → Use include_tests=false to exclude test symbols

2. search_codebase(query="<entry point>", path_glob="src/**/*")
   → Find main handlers, routes, or CLI commands
   → Copy enclosing_semantic_path for next step
   → Check files_searched/files_in_scope/coverage_percent for completeness

3. read_with_deep_context(semantic_path="<entry point>")
   → Source + signatures of everything it calls
   → First call may take 5-30s during LSP warmup

4. find_callers_callees(semantic_path="<key function>", max_depth=3)
   → Who calls it (incoming) + what it calls (outgoing)

Done when: You can explain the architecture and trace a request through the system.

Impact Assessment (Before Any Change)

1. read_with_deep_context(semantic_path="<target>")
   → Current code + dependency signatures

2. find_callers_callees(semantic_path="<target>", max_depth=3)
   → All callers = blast radius
   → For large API changes: use max_depth=4-5
   → When NOT degraded: empty arrays = LSP confirmed zero

3. For each caller:
   read_symbol_scope(semantic_path="<caller>")
   → Verify assumptions about the target's interface

4. get_definition(semantic_path="<suspicious dependency>")
   → Jump to external dependency source

Read the full file on GitHub · 308 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. 6d ago First seen · 308 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A d31768acd9f5

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pathfinder is a skill published in the GitHub repository irahardianto/rugged-gemini (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 3,165 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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