What is copilot-instructions?

A set of automatically generated repository instructions for a TypeScript project using tools such as Figma and MCP. It describes the technologies, folder layout, commands, and coding rules.

Use it when editing the project, running its tests or linting, or working in areas such as Figma comments, self-healing tools, encryption, or Google Docs context.

It gives coding agents project-specific context so they can follow the expected style and run the right checks.

How bitovi/cascade-mcp configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to bitovi/cascade-mcp. 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/bitovi/cascade-mcp/main/.github/agents/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bitovi/cascade-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/bitovi/cascade-mcp/copilot-instructions/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/bitovi/cascade-mcp/copilot-instructions)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/bitovi/cascade-mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/bitovi/cascade-mcp/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/bitovi/cascade-mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/bitovi/cascade-mcp/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 459 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00459
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00184
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00092
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00046

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 04465f6d937e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

copilot-instructions 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.

.github/agents/copilot-instructions.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

cascade-mcp Development Guidelines

Auto-generated from all feature plans. Last updated: 2026-01-23

Active Technologies

TypeScript 5.x (strict mode) + Figma API, @modelcontextprotocol/sdk, ai (vercel AI SDK), Express (001-figma-comments)
In-memory only for comments; optional debug output to cache/figma-files/ via env var (001-figma-comments)
TypeScript 5.x (Node.js runtime) + Existing codebase using AI SDK, Zod, MCP protocol libraries (039-self-healing-tools)
File-based caching (cache/ directory), Jira API for persistence (039-self-healing-tools)
TypeScript 5.x / Node.js 20+ + Node.js crypto module (built-in), dotenv for environment loading (001-static-encryption-keys)
Environment variables (base64-encoded PEM keys), existing server/utils/crypto.ts encryption functions (001-static-encryption-keys)
TypeScript (ES2022 target, strict mode enabled via tsconfig.json) + @modelcontextprotocol/sdk, Google Drive API (via fetch wrapper in google-api-client.ts), ai (AI SDK for LLM providers) (001-google-docs-context)

Project Structure

src/
tests/

Commands

npm test && npm run lint

Code Style

TypeScript (ES2022 target, strict mode enabled via tsconfig.json): Follow standard conventions

Recent Changes

626-generic-text-encryption: Added TypeScript 5.x (strict mode), Node.js 18+, React 18.x + Express.js (server), React + React Router (frontend), TailwindCSS (styling), Node.js crypto (RSA encryption)
001-static-encryption-keys: Added TypeScript 5.x / Node.js 20+ + Node.js crypto module (built-in), dotenv for environment loading
039-self-healing-tools: Added TypeScript 5.x (Node.js runtime) + Existing codebase using AI SDK, Zod, MCP protocol libraries

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.

1mo ago First seen · 37 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 04465f6d937e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

copilot-instructions is an agent published in the GitHub repository bitovi/cascade-mcp (24 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 459 tokens. 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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