alfanous: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

alfanous copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Alfanous-team/alfanous. It costs 1,781 tokens per session, scanned A, original, LGPL-3.0.

Project instructions for GitHub Copilot covering the Alfanous repository’s purpose, technology choices, file layout, and development process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when asking Copilot to write, edit, explain, or review code in the Alfanous repository.
Why use it?
They give Copilot context about the codebase so its suggestions better match the project’s structure and conventions.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is Alfanous-team/alfanous's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on alfanous 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 alfanous configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Alfanous-team/alfanous. 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/Alfanous-team/alfanous/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Alfanous-team/alfanous

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 1,781 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,781 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 $0.01781 $0.01781
Opus 5.5 $0.00712 $0.00712
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00356 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00178 $0.00178

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8197e543d53d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alfanous 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 220 lines

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Licensed LGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed LGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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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. 1mo ago First seen · 220 lines · 1,781 tokens per session scan A 8197e543d53d

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alfanous copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Alfanous-team/alfanous (286 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed LGPL-3.0. It adds 1,781 tokens to every session, about $0.0071 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 2026-08-30.

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