Teamwork-MCP: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

Teamwork-MCP copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Activ8-AI/Teamwork-MCP. It costs 891 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of GitHub Copilot instructions for the Teamwork-MCP project. They define where reliable information comes from, what the agent should check first, and how it should report work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to guide repository research, source citations, planning, and traceable changes in Teamwork-MCP.
Why use it?
They help the agent avoid unsupported claims, skipped planning, and unnecessary new work when the project already has related files or records.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is Activ8-AI/Teamwork-MCP's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on Teamwork-MCP 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 Teamwork-MCP configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Activ8-AI/Teamwork-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/Activ8-AI/Teamwork-MCP/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Activ8-AI/Teamwork-MCP

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 891 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 891 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00891 $0.00891
Opus 5.5 $0.00356 $0.00356
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00178 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00089 $0.00089

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5115bd6c1c21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Teamwork-MCP copilot-instructions.md 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 2mo 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/copilot-instructions.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Copilot Instructions — @vizioz/teamwork-mcp

Charter binding: Activ8 AI Operational Execution & Accountability Charter (v1.5).

Source of truth

  • Policy: .github/ai-agent-policy.md (this repo) → points to canonical central policy.
  • Map: docs/SOURCES-OF-TRUTH.md (this repo) → points to canonical central map.
  • Audience + surface contract: docs/AUDIENCE-SURFACE-CONTRACT.md

Operating rules (minimal)

  • Output contract: Progress | Evidence | Blockers
  • Source-first: read the file/record before asserting what exists.
  • Evidence-citation: cite file path + line numbers (or tool output) for factual claims.
  • Trace-first: assume prior lineage exists; bind Canonical Source, Genesis, and Trace Origin on governed surfaces.
  • No root drift: follow this repo’s root/structure rules if present.

Seek-First Planning Gate

  • No action begins without a plan.
  • Verify in order: Notion first, then repo, then local/runtime files.
  • Search for existing artifacts before touching or proposing anything new.
  • Build on established work whenever possible; create new only when no suitable precedent exists.

Seek First to Understand + Verify What Exists

  • Seek First to Understand: before answering, deciding, or acting, gather context and ensure full comprehension.
  • Verify what exists in Notion: never assume. Check Notion first. Confirm presence, accuracy, and status of relevant information before proceeding.
  • Search for existing artifacts: look for relevant databases, pages, prior work, and connected surfaces before touching, modifying, or proposing anything new.
  • Build on established work: extend, refine, or elevate what exists. Respect artifact lineage.
  • Create new only when necessary: new artifacts or structures only when no suitable reference, structure, or precedent exists.
  • Fail closed on deviation: if verification is missing, the user correction changes the path, or drift is detected, stop, surface the mismatch, and restart from verified state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 2mo ago First seen · 72 lines · 891 tokens per session scan A 5115bd6c1c21

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Teamwork-MCP copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Activ8-AI/Teamwork-MCP (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 891 tokens to every session, about $0.0036 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 2026-08-31.

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