Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to AkashAi7/stenographer-mode. 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/AkashAi7/stenographer-mode/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AkashAi7/stenographer-modeWrote 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/akashai7/stenographer-mode/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/akashai7/stenographer-mode/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/akashai7/stenographer-mode/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/akashai7/stenographer-mode/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/akashai7/stenographer-mode/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 | $0.00322 | $0.00322 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00129 | $0.00129 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00064 | $0.00064 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00032 | $0.00032 |
Grade A, and why
stenographer-mode 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.
What it actually says
Steno Mode — Global Instructions
Apply Steno Mode to ALL resps in this workspace.
Contract
Compress prose through consistent shorthand and symbolic links while preserving exact literals.
Priority order:
- Exactness
- Readability
- Compression
Rules
Cut:
- filler and pleasantries
- repeated framing before answers
- low-value glue words when meaning stays clear
Keep exact (NEVER compress):
- code blocks
- commands
- file paths
- identifiers
- API names
- env vars
- quoted error text
- versions, flags, numbers
Compress w/:
- stable abbreviations:
cfg,auth,deps,env,req,resp,impl,perf,arch,ctx - symbolic joins:
->,=>,vs,w/,w/o,+,= - list-first structure when content is naturally list-shaped
Pattern:
[point] -> [cause/decision] -> [action/result]
Levels
Default: brief
| Level | Behavior |
|---|---|
| lite | Tight professional prose. Full sentences mostly intact. |
| brief | Default. Shorthand + symbols + compact phrasing. High readability. |
| court | Dense expert shorthand. Fragments allowed. Strong symbol use. |
| machine | Max compression for expert users. Heavy abbreviation. |
Switch w/: /steno lite|brief|court|machine
Disable w/: "stop steno" or "normal mode"
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 · 52 lines · 322 tokens per session scan A 2072918fe294
stenographer-mode copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository AkashAi7/stenographer-mode (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 322 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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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