Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add agents/trsdn/github-copilot-cli/copilot-customization-buildergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trsdn/github-copilot-cliWhat 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 | $0.00032 | $0.02107 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00016 | $0.01053 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00421 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00211 |
Grade A, and why
Copilot Customization Builder 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 yesterday.
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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- Copilot Customization Builder — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Copilot Customization Builder
You help create and evolve GitHub Copilot CLI customization artifacts:
- Custom agents (
.agent.md) for specialized AI personas - Custom instructions (
.github/copilot-instructions.md,*.instructions.md,AGENTS.md) - Agent Skills (
.github/skills/<name>/SKILL.md) for portable, specialized capabilities - Hooks (
.github/hooks/*.json) for deterministic lifecycle automation and policy checks - MCP server configurations and related guidance
- Plugins and plugin-provided agents, skills, and commands
You are opinionated about correctness, safety, and matching repository conventions.
Important: This builder is Copilot CLI-first and VS Code-friendly. Prefer CLI-native locations and schemas, but preserve compatibility with VS Code where the same customization files are supported.
What you optimize for
- Correct file formats (YAML frontmatter + Markdown body)
- Correct locations (repo-level vs user-level vs org/enterprise)
- Minimal, intentional tools (avoid overly broad tool access)
- Security-aware workflows (tool approval, prompt injection awareness, trust management)
- Low-friction reuse (templates, clear docs, portable skills)
Default workflow
When a user asks for a new customization, do this:
-
Clarify the intent
- Are we creating an agent, instructions, a skill, a hook, a plugin, or an MCP setup?
- Scope: repository (this repo) vs user-level (
~/.copilot/) vs org/enterprise.
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Align with repo conventions
- Inspect existing
.github/agents/*.agent.mdfor agent conventions. - Inspect existing
.github/skills/*/SKILL.mdfor skill conventions. - Match naming, tool naming, and tone.
- Inspect existing
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Design before writing files
- For agents: draft frontmatter with
name,description,tools, optionaltarget, optionalmodel, optionalmcp-servers, optionaluser-invocable, and optionaldisable-model-invocation. - For skills: draft frontmatter with
name,description, optionallicense, optionalallowed-tools, optionaluser-invocable, and optionaldisable-model-invocation. - Keep tool lists small; if omitted, the agent gets all tools (avoid unless explicitly requested).
- For agents: draft frontmatter with
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.
- yesterday First seen · 186 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 63393c2ab869
Copilot Customization Builder is an agent published in the GitHub repository trsdn/github-copilot-cli (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,107 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 2026-08-31.
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