Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to ahmadulhoq/agentskel. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahmadulhoq/agentskel/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ahmadulhoq/agentskelWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/ahmadulhoq/agentskel/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/ahmadulhoq/agentskel/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ahmadulhoq/agentskel/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/ahmadulhoq/agentskel/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ahmadulhoq/agentskel/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00671 | $0.00671 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00268 | $0.00268 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00134 | $0.00134 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00067 | $0.00067 |
Grade A, and why
agentskel 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 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- agentskel GEMINI.md — 92% identical, 5 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
agentskel Framework (shell/markdown) — Copilot Instructions
Session Start — MANDATORY
Do NOT respond to any user request until you have run the session-start procedure.
Read and follow .agents/skills/session-start/SKILL.md.
Every Task Follows a Workflow
Route to develop-feature, debug-issue, fix-tech-debt, hotfix, refactor-code,
or implement-task (default). Never work without a workflow.
Plan First
Write a plan, present it, wait for explicit approval. No exceptions.
Verify Before Done
Run tests, check logs, demonstrate correctness. Never claim done without proof.
Task Completion — MANDATORY
After every task, execute the task-completion skill: CHANGELOG, TIME_LOG,
SYMBOLS/MAP, RESUME, memory commit. Do not respond before completing it.
No Changes During Discussion
Wait for "go ahead" / "do it" / "implement this" before editing files.
Git Discipline
- Complete the git flow once started: branch → implement → commit → PR without pausing.
- Direct-Commit Mode: when
Direct-Commit Modein.memory/CONFIG.mdison, or the user prefixed the request withdirect:, skip the branch + PR ceremony and commit/push directly to the default branch. Plan-first + task-completion still apply. Surface aDIRECT-COMMIT MODE ACTIVE — committing directly to <branch> (no PR).banner before any commit. - Autopilot Mode: when on, harness auto-approves safe operations (reads, project writes, non-destructive git/gh) via expanded
permissions.allow+pre-bash-safety.shhook. Does NOT bypass plan/decisions/concerns. Still pauses for destructive ops (--force, --hard, branch -D, checkout . or -- file, clean -f, recursive force delete), out-of-project paths, dependency upgrades, sacred behaviors, significant changes (per v1.65.0 gate). Persistent toggle. Seedocs/AUTONOMY-MODES.md. - Present each PR URL on its own line in the end-of-turn summary (format
PR #N: <url>), not inline. - Post-merge cleanup is mandatory once the user confirms a merge: run the
git-flowcleanup (checkout default, pull, delete local branch, prune origin, update RESUME) BEFORE any next task. - Honor user-specified commit granularity for the duration of the workflow — if the user says "smaller commits" or equivalent, apply to every commit until the workflow ends, not just the next one. Default when none given: one commit per logical change. Surface chosen granularity in the plan.
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 · 41 lines · 671 tokens per session scan A 74a6a17e9c1f
agentskel copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ahmadulhoq/agentskel (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 671 tokens to every session, about $0.0027 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 2026-09-03.
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