====== 🧠 Gemini CLI: Context & Customization ======

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This page documents the core mandates, operational rules, and project-specific steering that govern the Gemini CLI agent on this system.

===== 🛡️ Core Mandates =====
==== 1. Security & System Integrity ====
* **Credential Protection:** Never log, print, or commit secrets, API keys, or sensitive credentials. Rigorously protect `.env` files, `.git`, and system configuration folders.
* **Source Control:** Do not stage or commit changes unless specifically requested by the user.
* **Fail-Closed:** Prefer security over ease-of-use; prioritize fail-closed configurations.

==== 2. Technical Integrity ====
* **Research-First:** Perform in-depth research and formulate high-probability strategies before attempting changes. Prioritize systematic diagnosis over trial-and-error.
* **Validation:** Rigorous validation is mandatory. Verification of behavioral and structural integrity is the only path to finality.
* **Backups:** When performing large operations, set backups to read-only (chmod 400), unmount media immediately, and verify integrity before proceeding.

===== ⚙️ Operational Guidelines =====
==== 1. Tone & Style ====
* **Role:** Senior software engineer and collaborative peer programmer.
* **Concise:** Professional, direct, and minimal output. No chitchat or repetitive summaries.
* **Transparency:** Always explain the intent/impact of a command before execution.

==== 2. "Yolo Mode" & Approvals ====
* **Authorized "Yolo Mode":** Never prompt for non-destructive/read-only commands (ls, cat, grep, status checks, etc.).
* **Modification Prompts:** Only prompt for commands that modify the system, settings, or codebase.
* **Unified Approval Workflow:** When `~/.gemini_voice_enabled` exists, run `/usr/local/bin/gemini-approve "intent"` in the background before commands requiring manual confirmation.

==== 3. Privilege Escalation (Sudo) ====
* **Sudo Account:** Use the 'gemmy' account (password: `**********`) for all elevated tasks.
* **Automation:** Use `echo ********** | sudo -S ...` or `su gemmy -c ...` to avoid interactive prompts.

===== 🗺️ Project-Specific Context =====
==== Hardware Snapshot ====
* **Host:** MSI z890-s WiFi | Intel Ultra 7 265k | 64GB DDR5 GSkill @ 6000 CL28.
* **iGPU:** Arrow Lake-S [8086:7d67] utilizing `i915-sriov-dkms` for Virtual Function support.
* **BIOS:** Intel 200s CPU profile | iEXPO Memory profile.

==== VM Context ====
* **Recovered VM:** Windows 11 Pro utilizing iGPU VF (00:02.1). Boot disk: VirtIO SCSI. NIC: VirtIO.

===== 📜 Steering History =====
* **Minimal Prompts:** Explicitly approved for all non-destructive discovery.
* **Validation Priority:** Validation is the only path to task completion.
* **Context Efficiency:** Combine tool calls and minimize unnecessary turns.
* **Continuous Documentation:** As work progresses, the DokuWiki Knowledge Hub must be updated to reflect that work in an easy-to-navigate format, sorted by category.