copilot-instructions-template: Command for GitHub Copilot

.github/prompts/corrective-action-loop.prompt.md

corrective-action-loop is a command for GitHub Copilot from zarfld/copilot-instructions-template. It costs 44 tokens per session (3,796 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A corrective-action process for sending each verified gap, anomaly, or defect back to the appropriate software lifecycle phase, then integrating and checking the correction again. Traceability records how an issue and its fix relate to project work, while regression checks look for old problems returning.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps handle verified defects through correction, reintegration, re-verification, traceability, and regression safeguards.
Why use it?
It prevents defects from being patched without addressing the lifecycle work that caused or missed them. It also keeps verification and links between the issue, fix, and affected work.

Command for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot chat mode or prompt.

This is zarfld/copilot-instructions-template's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on copilot-instructions-template 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 copilot-instructions-template configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zarfld/copilot-instructions-template. 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/zarfld/copilot-instructions-template/master/.github/prompts/corrective-action-loop.prompt.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zarfld/copilot-instructions-template

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,796 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 unknown 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 $0.00044 $0.03796
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01518
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00759
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00380

Measured 14d ago against content hash 6030ca04f913, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

corrective-action-loop 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 14d 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/prompts/corrective-action-loop.prompt.md · 342 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 14d ago First seen · 342 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 6030ca04f913

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corrective-action-loop is a command published in the GitHub repository zarfld/copilot-instructions-template (1 stars, last pushed 15d ago), with no licence file. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 3,796 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-15.