ai-terminal: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

ai-terminal copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from AiTerminalFoundation/ai-terminal. It costs 1,345 tokens per session, scanned C, original, no licence file.

Project instructions for AiTerminalFoundation/ai-terminal, covering how GitHub Copilot should work with the project, its purpose, and its frontend and backend technologies.

In plain words
What is it for?
They help GitHub Copilot work on the ai-terminal codebase.
Why use it?
They give Copilot the project context and coding guidance needed to suggest or make relevant changes.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is AiTerminalFoundation/ai-terminal's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on ai-terminal 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 ai-terminal configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to AiTerminalFoundation/ai-terminal. 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/AiTerminalFoundation/ai-terminal/master/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AiTerminalFoundation/ai-terminal

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 1,345 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,345 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.01345 $0.01345
Opus 5.5 $0.00538 $0.00538
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00269 $0.00269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00135 $0.00135

Measured 2mo ago against content hash a550628232d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

ai-terminal copilot-instructions.md scanned grade C with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- Linux: `curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Linux: `curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh`
.github/copilot-instructions.md · 174 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.

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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 · 174 lines · 1,345 tokens per session scan C a550628232d4

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ai-terminal copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository AiTerminalFoundation/ai-terminal (150 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 1,345 tokens to every session, about $0.0054 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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