azure-boards-mcp-testcases: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

azure-boards-mcp-testcases copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from akashnaykude/azure-boards-mcp-testcases. It costs 1,648 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of GitHub Copilot instructions for working with Azure Boards, Microsoft's tool for tracking work items such as tasks and bugs. It includes a read-only rule for those work items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when Copilot needs project-specific guidance while reading Azure Boards work items and following repository instructions.
Why use it?
It helps prevent an AI coding assistant from changing Azure Boards data when the project only allows viewing it.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is akashnaykude/azure-boards-mcp-testcases's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on azure-boards-mcp-testcases 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 azure-boards-mcp-testcases configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to akashnaykude/azure-boards-mcp-testcases. 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/akashnaykude/azure-boards-mcp-testcases/master/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akashnaykude/azure-boards-mcp-testcases

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 1,648 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,648 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 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 $0.01648 $0.01648
Opus 5.5 $0.00659 $0.00659
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00330 $0.00330
Haiku 4.5 $0.00165 $0.00165

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 45e0d054b2f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-boards-mcp-testcases 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 · 60 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. 2mo ago Changed · +32 lines · +960 tokens per session 45e0d054b2f0
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 28 lines · 688 tokens per session scan A dd4bf8c25085

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azure-boards-mcp-testcases copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository akashnaykude/azure-boards-mcp-testcases (0 stars, last pushed 29d ago), with no licence file. It adds 1,648 tokens to every session, about $0.0066 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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